Jaborandi.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Salivation of pregnancy. Profuse sweats. Sweats of phthisis. Mumps. Scanty, frequent urination with painful urging. Scarlatinal and other dropsy. OEdema of the larynx or lungs. Amblyopia. Atrophic choroiditis.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Pale face, dizziness, frontal headache, contracted pupils.1. Swelling of the salivary glands profuse ropy salivation. Remarkably profuse sweating. Increased flow of nasal, bronchial and intestinal secretions.2. Nausea, vomiting. Scanty urination, pain over the pubes with great desire to pass water.3. Great exhaustion with muscular weakness and tremor. Slow, sighing respiration. Pulse rapid and weak. Lowered temperature.
DOSE.
Extractum pilocarpi fluidum, 1/2 -1 dr.
Tinctura pilocarpi, 1/2 -1 dr.
Pilocarpinae hydrochloras, 1/12 – 1/3 gr.
The depression caused by the use of this drug in doses large enough to produce physiological effects is so great that it is dangerous in cardiac dropsy, puerperal convulsions, advanced Bright’s disease, and many states of oedema.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Salivation of pregnancy.2. (One-twentieth grain of pilocarpine).
Mumps.2. (Minute doses three or four times a day).
Excessive sweating.2. (Minute doses of pilocarpine). Sweats of phthisis.2. (One-twentieth to one-twelfth grain of pilocarpine three times a day).
Scanty urination with frequent, painful urging.3 (Minute doses).
Bright’s disease: oedema and suppression of the urine. (Use cautiously).
Pulmonic oedema.
OEdema of the larynx.
Hydrothorax.
Scarlatinal dropsy. (One-twentieth to one-eighth grain).
Puerperal convulsions. (Much doubt as to its utility).
Scanty secretion of milk in nursing women.
(One-twentieth to one-twelfth grain).
Amblyopia from tobacco and alcohol.
Atrophic choroiditis.
Detachment of the retina.
Alopecia. (Fluid extract in soap liniment).
Dry catarrh of the middle ear. (Eight grains of pilocarpine to the ounce of distilled water. Apply to the tympanum).
