Dropsy, remedies

The drug consists of the dried berries that are prescribed for headache, catarrh, watery eyes, and are used to promote beard growth. In Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, the berries are used to treat conjunctivis, dropsy, toothache, and as a remedy for swollen breast. In Malaysia, the leaves are used to assuage headache externally, and internally are used to treat tuberculosis and fever. 

This Precipitated Gold has the power of curing the plague, the pox, leprosy, dropsy, and other maladies which resist the healing art. It is a sovereign remedy for obstructions it will be serviceable... 

Urginea (Scilla) maritima Squill Proscillaridin Squill was a common remedy for dropsy in ancient times and up to the 19th century... 

Sassafras oil, sassafras bark, and safrole (80% of the oil) are prohibited by the FDA as food additives and flavorings because of their carcinogenic properties. A safrole-free extract is available on the market, but studies have shown that the product still produces tumors in rats (Tyler, 1993). Nevertheless, sassafras is touted in herbal home remedy books and continues to be available in health food stores. Sassafras still enjoys a reputation as a spring tonic, stimulant, anti spasmodic, blood purifier, and sudorific (sweat producer), and as a cure for rheumatism, skin diseases, syphilis, typhus, and dropsy (congestive heart failure) (Tyler, 1993). Unfortunately, sassafras seems to be nothing more than a folk medicine for more than 200 yr it has been known to be without therapeutic utility (Tyler, 1994). 

It was not until the late 18th and early 19th centuries that an analytical investigation of the active components of medicinal plants and herbal remedies was pursued. This resulted in the discovery of alkaloids such as atropine, morphine, codeine, and papaverine, which eventually became the major constituents of many modem analgesic and cardiac medicines. The discovery of aspirin (from Willow bark), the cannabinoids (from cannabis sct- ya), and digitalis (from foxglove leaf) also came many years, in some cases thousands of years, after these remedies were being used for pain relief, sedation, and dropsy (5-9). 

Dandelion Fills. Take 30 groins extract of dandelion, and fi grains calomel make into 10 pills. 2 taken 3 times a day are a useful remedy for dropsy in tbo belly arising from disorder of tho liver. (3 No, 5697.)... 

Infiision of Dandelion. Steep 2 ounces bruised duudcliou root in 1 pint boiling water. After 24 hours strain. 2 table-spoonfnla 4 times a day is a remedy for dropsy. (See No, 5697.)... 

It is a traditional remedy for infected gums, tooth decay and halitosis. In many parts of Europe it is used in the treatment of early stages of fevers, colds and in nervous disorders. In Tuscany, it is used as poultice for liver complaints, taken inemally for same disease and for dropsy [69],... 

Several pharmacopeias or dispensitories published between 1672 and 1702 highly recommend powdered toad skin for congestive heart failure (dropsy) (94). This remedy might still be in therapeutic use today had not William Withering, in 1775, introduced Digitalis purpurea L. for this purpose. 

He made known to me further," said the artist, "the preparation of crocus of iron, an infallible cure for dysentry of a metallic liquor, which was an efficacious remedy for dropsy, and of other medicines."... 

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