Musa

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Musa sapientium, L.

Natural order , Palmæ.

Common name , Banana.

Preparation , Tincture of the flowers.

Authority.

Dr. Jenner, Month. Hom. Rev., 9, 545, "Fragmentary Provings of Australian Plants."

HEAD

  • Dull, heavy frontal headache.

MOUTH AND THROAT

  • Dry, rough, and extremely astringent taste and feeling in the mouth, tongue, and fauces, but afterwards an increased flow of saliva.

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN

  • Rumbling in stomach and bowels, with expulsion of flatus.

RECTUM AND ANUS

  • Improvement and ultimate cure of profusely bleeding hæmorrhoids (a case which had resisted every kind of treatment), (curative effect).

STOOL

  • Costiveness (in a person of very regular habits), with feeling of fulness about the anus.

URINARY ORGANS

  • Discharge of large quantities of mucous with the urine, attended with dull, aching pain in the region of the bladder.

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