Diuretic squill

Squill possesses expectorant, cathartic, emetic, cardioactive, and diuretic properties. Traditionally, it has been used for chronic bronchitis, asthma with bronchitis, whooping cough, and specifically for chronic bronchitis with scanty sputum. 

Scills Syrupus (syrup of squills) From the sea onion (Urginea martima), used as an expectorant, diuretic, and emetic purgative. Its most common use was in the treatment of chronic bronchitis. Beasley gives more than thirty different prescriptions. 

Clinically important, potentially hazardous interactions with alprazolam, amiodarone, amphotericin B, arbutamine, bendroflumethiazide, benzthiazide, bisacodyl, bumetanide, carbimazole, chlorothiazide, chlorthalidone, cholestyramine, clarithromycin, conivaptan, cyclosporine, cyclothiazide, dan-shen, demeclocycline, devil s claw, dexmedetomidine, doxycycline, erythromycin, esomeprazole, ethacrynic acid, flunisolide, furosemide, ginseng, glycopyrrolate, glycopyrronium, hawthorn (fruit, leaf, flower extract), horsetail, hydrochlorothiazide, hydroflumethiazide, indapamide, licorice, lopinavir, mepenzolate, methyclothiazide, metolazone, minocycline, mistletoe, oxprenolol, oxytetracycline, paroxetine, phenylbutazone, polythiazide, propafenone, propantheline, quinethazone, quinidine, rabeprazole, rifampin, roxithromycin, sarsaparilla, senna, Siberian ginseng, squill, St John s wort, telithromycin, teriparatide, tetracycline, thiazide diuretics, tolvaptan, trichlormethiazide, verapamil... 

Squill The cut and dried fleshy inner scales of the white variety of the bulb Urginea scllla, or the younger bulbs of U. indlca. It Is used as an expectorant, cardiac stimulant and diuretic. 

Plant extracts containing cardiac glycosides have been in use for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians were familiar with squill (a source of proscillaridin), as were the Romans who used it as a heart tonic and diuretic. The foxglove was mentioned in the writings of Welsh physicians in the thirteenth century and features in An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses , published by William Withering in 1785, in which he described its application in the treatment of dropsy or the oedema that results from heart failure. 

White squill also reportedly has expectorant, emetic, and diuretic properties (martin-dale MERCK). 

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