Grindelia.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Weakness of the cardiac and respiratory functions. Spasmodic asthma. Bronchitis with spasm of the bronchial tubes.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Gastric uneasiness. Pupils dilated. Insensibility. Paresis or paralysis of the heart and of respiration.
DOSE.
Extractum grindeliae fluidum, 10-60 m.
Administer in mucilaginous or syrupy vehicle, or in milk.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Spasmodic asthma. (Twenty to thirty drops every half hour or hour).
Spasmodic difficulty of breathing, from pulmonary and cardiac diseases.
Bronchitis with bronchial spasm.
Whooping-cough. Weakness with impaired appetite.