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Physician's Materia Medica on Veratrine
CEVADILLA
The seed of ASAGRAEA OFFICINALIS, (C. & S.) Lindl. Emeto. cathartic, cardiac sedative, but chiefly used externally as a parasiticide. Active principle Veratrine, q. v.1
The seed of ASAGRAEA OFFICINALIS, (C. & S.) Lindl. Emeto. cathartic, cardiac sedative, but chiefly used externally as a parasiticide. Active principle Veratrine, q. v.1
VERATRINE
A mixture of alkaloids obtained from ASAGRAEA OFFICINALIS, (Cham. & Sch.) Lindl. An active poison, but now used medicinally only for its local action in neuralgia and rheumatism, being at once counter-irritant and local anesthetic. Dose stated to be 0.001 to 0.006 Grm. (1-60 to 1-10 gr.).1
A mixture of alkaloids obtained from ASAGRAEA OFFICINALIS, (Cham. & Sch.) Lindl. An active poison, but now used medicinally only for its local action in neuralgia and rheumatism, being at once counter-irritant and local anesthetic. Dose stated to be 0.001 to 0.006 Grm. (1-60 to 1-10 gr.).1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.