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Physician's Materia Medica on Pleurisy Root (asclepias)
PLEURISY ROOT (Asclepias)
The root of ASCLEPIAS TUBEROsA, Lin. Diaphoretic, expec torant, carminative, antipyretic; in large doses emetic and cathartic. Prescribed in the formative stage of fevers, in coryza and acute nasal catarrh of infants, in colliquative sweats of phthisis, in pleurodynia, intercostal neuralgia and rheumatism.1
The root of ASCLEPIAS TUBEROsA, Lin. Diaphoretic, expec torant, carminative, antipyretic; in large doses emetic and cathartic. Prescribed in the formative stage of fevers, in coryza and acute nasal catarrh of infants, in colliquative sweats of phthisis, in pleurodynia, intercostal neuralgia and rheumatism.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.