Cholera, remedies

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It is a toxic plant and has properties similar to strychnine, which is obtained from Strychnos nux vomica. Once recommended as a remedy for cholera, the plant is used to treat fever and acute emotional and mental afflictions such as hysteria, insomnia, and depression. In toxic doses, it causes muscle spasms, painful convulsions, and even death by asphyxiation (see Chapter 62). 

Velpeau s Remedy for Diarrhea and Cholera Morbus. Take 1 ouaco each tincture of opium, paregoric elixir, mid tincture of rhubarb 10 drachms essence of peppermint and 6 drachms tincture of capsicum. This is tho original receipt for this celebrated remedy. Dose for an acfult, a tea-spoonful in 1 a wine-glass sweetened water and, if required, half a dose after each loose evacuation. 

Chloramphenicol was the first broad-spectrum antibiotic to be used in medicine, but it came under a cloud when long-continued administration produced many cases of aplastic anaemia, which can be life endangering. Its use is now restricted to diseases where it is the most active known remedy, and which are likely to be cured quickly, within the safe period of the drug. Hence it is used to cure typhoid fever, bacterial meningitis, and anaerobic infections of the brain such as those caused by B.fragilis. It is the only common antibiotic to pass freely into the cerebrospinal fluid and to cross the blood—brain barrier. It also serves as a useful alternative to the tetracyclines in cholera and the rickettsial diseases such as typhus or Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 

Traditional use Used as a folk medicine in Eastern and European countries. The resin was often used as a tonic and as a stimulatory remedy for gastric pneumatosis, pertussis, cholera, and other diseases. Avicenna applied it to treat tumors, jaundice and other diseases of the liver, stomach, kidneys, and spleen, and he also used it as a diuretic and hemostatic for uterine bleeding (Ogolevitz 1951 Kurmukov and Akhmedkhodzhaeva 1994 Khahnatov and Kosimov 1994). 

Valerian oil is employed to a considerable extent on the continent as a popular remedy for cholera, in the form of cholera drops, and also to a certain extent in soap perfumery. 

T raditional Medicine. This plant (E. angustifolia) was universally used as an antidote for snakebite and other venomous bites and stings and poisonous conditions. Echinacea seems to have been used as a remedy for more ailments than any other plant. Diseases and conditions for which echinacea was employed by physicians (1887-1939) included old sores, wounds, snakebite, gangrene, and as a local antiseptic internally for diphtheria, typhoid conditions, cholera infantum, syphilis, and blood poisoning. ... 

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