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Physician's Materia Medica on Turpentine
PARSLEYPETRO6
The fruit, also the root of APIUM PETROSELINUM, Lin. Carmi native, discutient, diuretic, antiperiodic, emmenagogue, sedative to genito-urinary tract. The root particularly is used with reference to this last property, being prescribed in strangury from cantharides or turpentine and in painful micturition caused by gravel. The seeds are generally used for their emmenagogue virtue, which depends on the apiol they contain. Dose of Apiol, 0.2 to 0.4 c. c. (3 to 6 mi. three times a day.1
The fruit, also the root of APIUM PETROSELINUM, Lin. Carmi native, discutient, diuretic, antiperiodic, emmenagogue, sedative to genito-urinary tract. The root particularly is used with reference to this last property, being prescribed in strangury from cantharides or turpentine and in painful micturition caused by gravel. The seeds are generally used for their emmenagogue virtue, which depends on the apiol they contain. Dose of Apiol, 0.2 to 0.4 c. c. (3 to 6 mi. three times a day.1
TEREBENE
Prepared from OIL OF TURPENTINE, but much less disagreeable in odor and taste. Stimulating expectorant, antiseptlc. Very useful in chronic bronchial affections with thick tenacious mucus; employ ed also like Copaiba in genito-urinary inflammations, and in fermentative dyspepsia. Dose, 0.3 to 0.6 c. c. (5 to 10 M).1
Prepared from OIL OF TURPENTINE, but much less disagreeable in odor and taste. Stimulating expectorant, antiseptlc. Very useful in chronic bronchial affections with thick tenacious mucus; employ ed also like Copaiba in genito-urinary inflammations, and in fermentative dyspepsia. Dose, 0.3 to 0.6 c. c. (5 to 10 M).1
TERPIN HYDRATE
Derivative from OIL OF TURPENTINE. A crystalline substance. soluble in alcohol but not in water, a fact to remember in prescribing. Used chiefly as a stimulant expectorant and said to be very eflicacious in hay fever. Dose, 0.06 to 0.30 Grm. (1 to 5 grs.) in hay fever; as adiuretic as much as 1 Grm. (15 grs.), three times a day.1
Derivative from OIL OF TURPENTINE. A crystalline substance. soluble in alcohol but not in water, a fact to remember in prescribing. Used chiefly as a stimulant expectorant and said to be very eflicacious in hay fever. Dose, 0.06 to 0.30 Grm. (1 to 5 grs.) in hay fever; as adiuretic as much as 1 Grm. (15 grs.), three times a day.1
TURPENTINE
The concrete oleoresin obtained from PINUS PALUSTRIS, Mill. and other species of Pinus. This is now seldom used, but the oil distilled from the fresh oleoresin, Oil of Turpentine, is frequently prescribed. Internally it is stimulant, hemostatic, antiseptic and anthelmintic. It is often prescribed in typhoid fever, for relief of tympanjtes, in in ternal hemorrhages, occasionally in sciatica and lumbago, in purpura hemorrhagica, in chronic bronchitis and chronic affections of the urinary passages,1
The concrete oleoresin obtained from PINUS PALUSTRIS, Mill. and other species of Pinus. This is now seldom used, but the oil distilled from the fresh oleoresin, Oil of Turpentine, is frequently prescribed. Internally it is stimulant, hemostatic, antiseptic and anthelmintic. It is often prescribed in typhoid fever, for relief of tympanjtes, in in ternal hemorrhages, occasionally in sciatica and lumbago, in purpura hemorrhagica, in chronic bronchitis and chronic affections of the urinary passages,1
TURPENTINE, VENICE
The oleoresin obtained from LARIX EUROPAEA, DC. Properties the same as those of Turpentine.1
The oleoresin obtained from LARIX EUROPAEA, DC. Properties the same as those of Turpentine.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.