The flowers, leaves and roots, but especially the flowers, possess antispasmodic properties and are prescribed in certain forms of asthma; they are bitter and slightly aromatic, and are given in infusion or electuary.
The plant is narcotic, antispasmodic and like belladonna it dilates the pupil.
They possess antispasmodic and stimulant properties, and the infusion is diuretic.
The Hindoos use it for those effects and as an antispasmodic in amenorrhoea and hysteria.
It is sometimes used as an antispasmodicin hysteria, epilepsy and chorea.
Furthermore it is stomachic, antispasmodic and emmenagogue.
Blume says that it contains marked antispasmodic virtues, and Dr.
Jones believes that the plant possesses antispasmodic properties, basing his belief on its odor, which resembles asafetida, though not so disagreeable.
Matheson recommends it as an antispasmodic and has employed it also in dyspnoea of cardiac origin.
Ladyslipper, more imposing under the Latin name of “cypripedium,” is a flowering plant with a legendary reputation as an “antispasmodic and nerve stimulant.
A general and special tonic, antispasmodic and invigorating cordial.
Celery at one time was credited with being both an antispasmodic and a nerve stimulant--a remarkable combination of opposing qualities!
Passiflora is a narcotic, sedative and antispasmodic without habit-forming properties, nor does it lock up the secretions and upset digestion like opiates.
Used internally, combined with opium, it acts as an antispasmodic in locked jaw, cholera, and many other spasmodic affections.
Ammonia, or Sal Volatile, is anantispasmodic antacid, stimulant and diaphoretic.
Sulphuric Ether Sulphuric Ether is given internally as an antispasmodic in difficult breathing and spasmodic asthma; also in hysteria, cramp of the stomach, hiccough, locked jaw, and cholera.
Use in cholera in the cold stage, when cramps are severe, or exhaustion very great; and as a general antispasmodic in doses of one dessert spoonful when the spasms are severe.
Resin of amber smells strongly of musk, and is said to be antispasmodic and nervine.
Oil of cajeput is a powerful antispasmodic and diffusible stimulant.
Antispasmodic and alexiterial, in doses of 6 to 12 gr.
Antispasmodic and sedative; but chiefly employed for its colour.
If attacks of enteralgia are associated with hysterical symptoms, it would be proper to employantispasmodic sedatives.
Because of its antispasmodic properties, the white man has used it internally in the treatment of whooping cough, hiccough and spasmodic asthma.
Golden-rod leaves and flowers have at times held a rather important place in materia medica, for their carminative, and antispasmodic properties.
It is recommended as an antispasmodic in asthma, hysteria, puerperal convulsions, and dysmenorrhea.
The greater the effort to breathe the more intense does the contraction become, until the antispasmodic effect of the presence of a lessened amount of oxygen and an abnormal quantity of carbon dioxide in the blood makes itself felt.
Hoffman's anodyne is an efficient antispasmodic and is wonderfully effective in relieving the tendency to asthma.
Efforts should be made to relax the whole animal by warmth and moisture externally, and in the use of antispasmodic teas, rather than to place too much dependence on clysters.
This plant is used as an antispasmodic in asthma and chronic cough.
Like other mints, it is antispasmodicand carminative.
Dose, 10 to 30 drops, as anantispasmodic and a powerful diffusible stimulant.
It has been recommended as an antispasmodic and anodyne, in hooping-cough and neuralgia.
An antispasmodic and counter-irritant liniment is made of the juice, which was formerly esteemed in chest diseases and infantile convulsions.
Its properties are similar to the other fetid antispasmodic gum-resins.
A similar preparation is also made from coal-soot, which is reputed antispasmodic and vermifuge.
Antispasmodic and nervine; in hysteria, hypochondriasis, epilepsy, and low fevers.
Collection, Prices and Uses--The rootstock is collected in autumn and is used as a diuretic, alterative, antispasmodic and a stimulating diaphoretic.
The principal use of Lady's-Slipper, which is official in the United States Pharmacopoeia, is as an antispasmodic and nerve tonic, and it has been used for the same purposes as valerian.
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