ASTHMA REMEDIES.

The Asthma Remedies which are put up as Proprietary are in various
forms, as powders and pastilles for burning slowly, the smoke being
inhaled, cigarettes for smoking, remedies to take, and inhalants. The
design of most of them is to produce diaphoresis and expectoration as
well as to subdue the spasmodic action of the inflamed bronchial organs.
The following formulas make preparations representative of the various
remedies;

Asthma Remedy.
A Powder for Fumigation.
Grindelia Robusta, in fine powder, 8 ounces.
Jaborandi Leaves, in fine powder, 8 ounces.
Eucalyptus Leaves, in fine powder, 4 ounces.
Coca Leaves, in fine powder, 4 ounces.
Digitalis Leaves, in fine powder, 4 ounces.
Cubeb, in fine powder, 4 ounces.
Stramonium Leaves, in fine powder, 16 ounces.
Nitrate of Potassium, in fine powder, 12 ounces.
Cascarilla Bark, 1 ounce.

Mix the powders and dry them thoroughly before putting up. This is
used by burning a half teaspoonful or more on a piece of saltpetre paper
and inhaling the smoke which rises. It affords prompt relief and will
cure cases not too far advanced. It is also excellent for catarrh, hayfever,
and other troubles of the nasal passages, throat, and lungs.
Asthma Cure.
A Liquid to Take.
Fluid Extract Grindelia, 3 fl. ounces.
Fluid Extract Skunk Cabbage, 1 fl. ounce.
Fluid Extract Lobelia, 1 fl. ounce.
Fluid Extract Bloodroot, 2 fl. drachms.
Fluid Extract Senega, 2 fl. drachms.
Chloroform, 4 fl. drachms.
Alcohol, 20 fl. ounces.
Water, 6 fl. ounces.
Mix them thoroughly and, after standing, decant or filter. This may also
be prepared from the drugs Grindelia 3 ounces, Skunk Cabbage,
Lobelia, each 1 ounce, Senega and Bloodroot, each 2 drachms,
percolated with a mixture of 4 measures of Alcohol with 1 measure of
Water, sufficient to make 2 pints, and Chloroform 1 fl. ounce, added to
the tincture.
The dose is a teaspoonful, in sweetened water, every 15 to 30 minutes,
when the attack of asthma comes on, until relieved. It should also be
continued, in small doses, three times a day to effect a cure.
Asthma Pastilles.
Benzoin, in fine powder, 1 ounces av.
Jaborandi, in fine powder, 2 ounces av.
Stramonium Leaves, in fine powder, 4 ounces.
Nitrate of Potassium, in fine powder, 4 ounces.
Charcoal, 20 ounces.
Mucilage of Tragacanth, thin, sufficient.
Beat the powders with the mucilage to a stiff mass and roll out into a
cake about 1/4 inch thick, cut this into strips 3/8 inches wide and 11/2
inches long and dry by warm air.
One end of the pastil is ignited and the smoke inhaled until relieved.
Asthmatic Cigarettes.
Stramonium Leaves, 4 ounces.
Cascarilla Bark, 1/2 ounce.
Lobelia Leaves, 2 drachms.
Mullein Leaves, 4 ounces.
Cut the leaves and drugs fine like smoking tobacco and make into
cigarettes. This may also be smoked in a pipe.

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