Trifolium repens

Volume I — Appendix

{White Clover.)

Preparation. — Tincture of the flower heads. Dr. Douglass took a trituration of the flowers, one part to six of sac. lactis ; the effects were so speedy and marked that six other persons took it, with substantially the same results in a few minutes.

A feeling of fulness and congestion of all the salivary glands; in some instances amounting to decided discomfort, and even pain, quickly followed by increased, sometimes copious flow of saliva. One of the provers placed her hands on the parotid gland and said she felt just as if an attack of mumps were coming on.

Volume II — Special Therapeutics

Or small white clover, has been recommended by Dr. J. S. Douglas for salivation. It causes profuse ptyalism in horses, and probably would in men, if they would chew enough of the fresh blossoms to excite it. Its secondary effect would probably be undue dryness, or suppressed saliva. Dr. Douglas thinks he saw benefit from it in a case of suppressed salivation (“druling”) in a teething infant. It may prove useful in such cases, especially where a diarrhoea follows the suppression.