Eli Lilly & Co. Aloin, Strychnine, Belladonna & Ipecac

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.

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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)