An anacatharic medicine; anexpectorant or an emetic.
It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.
As a diuretic and attenuant in dropsy, or as an expectorant in chronic coughs.
Expectorant and diaphoretic, in small doses; emetic and narcotic, in larger ones.
As a stimulating expectorant and diaphoretic; in chronic catarrhs, low fevers, agues, &c.
It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic.
Thus Ammonia and volatile oils are Expectorant and Diaphoretic.
Free Ammonia is a better Expectorant than any of its neutral salts.
In Bombay its expectorant action is commonly known and its juice is used, mixed with borax and honey.
It is widely used in bronchial catarrhs and in asthma on account of its sudorific and expectorant action.
It is official in the Pharmacopoeia of India, the dry powdered leaf being the part employed, and its emetic, diaphoretic and expectorant properties are well known in that country.
The hot infusion of the leaves is a good diaphoretic taken by the mouth, especially useful in catarrhal bronchitis, and prized as an expectorant by the Chinese and Javanese.
The root is tonic, febrifuge and expectorant and the fruit nervine and emmenagogue according to the Sanscrit writer.
Squill was formerly used as an expectorant and diuretic, the activity having been attributed to two amorphous glucosids, scillipicrin and scillitoxin, but Ewins, 1911, found these to be impure mixtures.
Yet these two drugs are said to exert their peculiar expectorant action.
Good to allay the excitement, act on the skin and promote perspiration; also a good expectorant powder in coughs, colds, pneumonia, and oppressed breathing.
Highly useful as an expectorant in coughs, colds, and all affections of the lungs.
Ipecacuanha is very frequently used as an expectorant in cases in which the bronchial secretion is deficient.
Concerning its efficacy, the United States dispensatory[126] states: "The tincture is occasionally employed internally as a stimulating expectorant in chronic bronchitis.
While bottles of British Oil sold two for a quarter in 1885 Wisconsin, one bottle of Jayne's Expectorant retailed for a dollar.
Wild Yam is said to possess expectorant properties and to promote perspiration, and in large doses providing emetic.
It is official in the United States Pharmacopoeia and has emetic, cathartic, diaphoretic, expectorant and diuretic properties, and on account of the last-named action it is used in dropsical affections.
In small doses, squill acts as a stimulating expectorant and diuretic; in larger ones, as an emetic and purgative.
Compound squill pill is a most useful expectorant in chronic coughs, asthmas, bronchial affections, difficulty of breathing, &c.
Grindelia: expectorantwhen the cough is troublesome.
Emetic doses and the prolonged use of expectorant doses are somewhat dangerous.
In China, the roots of Glycyrrhiza echinata and Glycyrrhiza glabra, are used in a variety of medicinal preparations as possessing tonic, alterative, and expectorant properties, and as a mild aperient.
In coughs and colds it makes a serviceable adjunct to expectorant medicines, whilst acting at the same time as sufficiently laxative.
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