Aloin
- Action: Cathartic.
- Uses: Chronic constipation, especially when complicated with hemorrhoids.
- Veterinary Uses: Cathartic in Dogs.
- Produced by Merck Laboratories.
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Strychnine
- See Nux Vomica in Merck's Index: Fourth Edition (1930)
Belladonna Leaves
- Action: Diuretic; Nervine; Narcotic; Sedation; Antispasmic; Anodyne.
- Uses (Internal): Pain, asthma, nervous cough, urinary incontinence, nights sweats. Antidote to morphine or opium.
- Uses (External): Rigid ostium of uterus, neuralgic, rheumatism etc.
p. 108
Ipecac
- Action: Emetic; Expector; Antidysenteric; Diaphoresis; Vascular Sedative.
- Uses: Emetic in poisoning, croup, etc; bronchitis, coughs, pulmonary hemorrhage, hiccough, whooping -couch; amebic dysentary, hepatitis, typhoid.
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- from Merck's Index: Fourth Edition (1930)
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