Luffa
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Dried fruit of a Brazilian plant called Cabacinha.
Authority. (Dr. Scott Alison, Pharm. Journ., vol. iv, 1845, Berridge's Collection. New Engl. Med. Gaz., 1876, p. 303).
1 , a man, aged thirty years, took 1 grain extract; 2 , a woman, took 40 drops tincture.
- Within one quarter of an hour he was overcome with faintness and nausea. He swallowed a little warm water, and immediately vomited freely. No violent action of the bowels followed, but for some days afterwards the stools were more than usually copious, 1.
- She had nausea for two days and retched a little, 2.