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Physician's Materia Medica on Yerba Reuma
YERBA REUMA
The herb of FRANKENIA GRANDIFOLIA, Cham. & Schlecht. As tringent, saline; used in passive hemorrhages and alvine fluxes, but especially as a topical application in catarrhal affections of the nasal passages, urethra, etc. For this use the fluid extract is diluted with from 2 to 5 times its volume of water.1
The herb of FRANKENIA GRANDIFOLIA, Cham. & Schlecht. As tringent, saline; used in passive hemorrhages and alvine fluxes, but especially as a topical application in catarrhal affections of the nasal passages, urethra, etc. For this use the fluid extract is diluted with from 2 to 5 times its volume of water.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.