INTRODUCTION
(Scullcap, Blue Scullcap).
INFORMATION
Maltson reports, in his American Vegetable Practice, that this plant cured a merchant in Boston, subject to great nervous excitement and severe tremor, so that he could not hold a pen to write; he made a tea of the plant and drank about a pint every night. It has been found serviceable in many forms of nervous derangement, abnormal nervous excitability even convulsions.
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.