Podophyllin or Podophyllum: very useful, especially in biliousness: ten drops of tincture at night alone, or the resin along with other purgatives in pill, especially when stools are dark.
In cases of jaundice, for example, podophyllin is at one, and the same time, the bane, and the antidote.
Moreover, podophyllin can be advantageously combined with vegetable tonics, and, when given along with gentian or quinine, forms an admirable hepatic stimulant in some of the cases usually denominated "torpid liver.
For example, in cases of feeble liver, where there is an insufficient secretion of bile from want of nervous power, podophyllin is decidedly of service, for in such cases mercury is of course counter-indicated.
On analysis the stone was found to consist almost entirely of cholesterine, and I have not the smallest doubt in my own mind that to the constant use of the podophyllin may, in a great measure, be attributed its formation.
Should the bowels be slow and uncertain, the small doses of Aloin, Cascarin and Podophyllin stimulate to free peristaltic action, while the Nux Vomica sets the nervous system right.
Normal bile has a certain solvent action on gall-stones, but calomel and podophyllin have no demonstrable effect in increasing the amount of bile.
They contain Podophyllin and aloes made into a pill and coated with sugar.
The employment of podophyllin and leptandrin as substitutes for mercurials has been so successful that they are now used by practitioners of all schools.
Sometimes the resin or extract of podophyllin is added to the compound jalap powder to increase its activity.
Podophyllin is indicated when constipation is a symptom.
The irritability of the stomach forbids the employment of drastic purgatives, yetpodophyllin resin is warmly commended by Dobell.
The compound podophyllin pill or a pill of one-sixth of a grain of belladonna and podophyllin at night or three times daily, the pill of aloes and myrrh, or the Lady Webster pill, are well-approved forms of administration.
Purgative combinations of colocynth, gamboge, and resin of podophyllin are also occasionally employed, but the most efficient hydragogue is elaterium.
Good results are obtained from a combination of podophyllin with extracts of physostigma, nux vomica, and belladonna.
Where the disease comes on soon after child-birth, Podophyllin is the Specific.
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