Dictamnus
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Dictamnus Fraxinella, Linn.
Natural order , Rutaceæ.
Common name , Fraxinella.
Preparation , Tincture of whole plant.
Authority.
Stoerck, in Die Flammula Jovis, etc., from Noack and Trink's Mat. Med.
- Frequent emission of copious, offensive flatus.
- Itching in the anus.
- Increased stools.
- Constipation.
- Greatly increased secretion of urine.
- Discharge of much tenacious mucus from the uterus, at first brown, afterwards white, at last streaked with blood.
- Increase of the leucorrhœa, with profuse discharge of urine, with distressing tenesmus and painful erosion of the genitals.
- Profuse metrorrhagia for nine days (recurring after ten days, upon the continued use of the drug, and lasting several days, with physical weakness).
- Aggravation of the epileptic attack. [10.]
- Profuse perspiration. [From Zorn, Botanologia Medica. Berlin, 1714, p. 265.]