Balsam Copaiva.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Irritated and catarrhal condition of the trachea, bronchi, gastro-intestinal tract and other mucous surfaces. The genito- urinary organs are especially involved, the symptoms resembling those of gonorrhoea. Irritability of the bladder. Sub-acute inflammation of the genito-urinary mucous membrane.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Vomiting. Severe gastro-intestinal catarrh.1. Dry, painful cough, with expectoration of greenish gray mucus.2. Frequent, difficult urination, with burning in the urethra. Strangury. Haematuria. Almost complete suppression of the urine.3. Urticaria. Roseola.4.
DOSE.
Oleum copaibae, I-30 m.
From one to twenty drops of the oil may be administered in an emulsion, with yolk of egg or mucilage. The gelatin capsule is a favorite method of prescription, as well as a mixture with equal parts of liquor potassae, after which it is freely diluted and flavored.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Chronic dysentery.1.
Inflamed and ulcerated hemorrhoids.1.
Chronic bronchitis, with profuse secretion of mucus.2.
Acute bronchitis, after subsidence of fever.2.
Gonorrhoea, after acute stage has passed.3.
Irritability of the bladder.3.
Vesical catarrh.3.
Sub-acute and chronic inflammation of the genito-urinary mucous membrane.3.
Hematuria.3.
Dropsy.3. (Fifteen to twenty drops three times a day).
Chronic urticaria of children.4. (Drop doses in emulsion, four times a day).
