WINTERGREEN.
Introduction
(Gaultheria– named after Dr. Gaultier, of Quebec.)
The leaves which are used to prepare our tincture were also used for an infusion during the Revolutionary War, hence the common names for the evergreen–Mountain or Jersey tea.
Our only provings have been the result of over-doses of the oil and essence.
Symptoms
Allen speaks of it, under Clinical notes, as follows: “The oil of wintergreen has been very largely used for both acute and subacute rheumatism. The plant itself contains salicylic acid, and to this fact may be due some of the beneficial effects of the drug. It has also proved useful in pleurodynia (120) in the anterior part of the chest.”.
Willard Ide Pierce, author of Plain Talks on Materia Medica (1911) and Repertory of Cough, Better and Worse (1907). Dr. Willard Ide Pierce was a Director and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kent's post-graduate school in Philadelphia.