Nervine Tonics Flashcards
Heart stimulant, great emmenagogue, epilepsy, asthma, antispasmodic, cough, acute rheumatism, neuralgia, scrofula, uterine affections, dysmenorrhea, nerve inflammation, heart palpitation.
Black Cohosh
Women’s best friend.
Fits, spasms, epilepsy, uterine inflammation, vermicide, dropsy.
Blue Cohosh
No better for breaking a chill in intermittent fever, muscular rheumatism, bronchitis, influenza, dyspepsia, sore throat.
Boneset
Jaundice, scrofulous disease, catarrh, cutaneous diseases, hemorrhoids, sluggish liver, gallbladder trouble, spleen disease, cystitis, fungus growths.
Dissolve hard lumps like cysts and corns. Itchy scaly skin diseases, dandruff, dry skin.
Celandine, Greater
Helps resist snake poisons, heals scabs, makes spots and blemishes clear, hacking cough, loosen phlegm, helps chronic asthma.
Clears and strengthen eyes, de-worms stomach, strengthens teeth, gout, sciatica, joint pains.
Combined with comfrey, helps internally injury, broken bones.
Elecampane
Kidney and bladder diseases, Bright’s disease, rheumatism, gout, dropsy, hematuria, cystitis.
Gravel Root
Colic, jaundice, hardening and blocking of liver, pregnancy nausea, whooping cough, spasmodic asthma & cough, rheumatism, bronchitis.
Dioscorea
Prevent abortion in nervous diseases of pregnancy, pregnancy vomiting, dysmenorrhea, afterpains, ovarian irritation, menorrhagia, asthma, hysteria, fits, cramps, colic, dysentery. Hardening of liver, cystitis, prevent abortion. Epilepsy and chorea.
Cramp Bark
Cystitis, Bright’s disease, dysuria, irritable bladder, gravel, jaundice, bronchitis, skin disease, gout. Relieves diabetic thirst, allays fever, promotes urination, great blood purifier.
Helps control weak bladder, for children and adults who urinate during the night.
Dog Grass
Diphtheria, pleurisy, pulmonary and bronchial catarrh, renal catarrh, cystitis, stomach and liver affections, mucous colitis, uticaria, eczema, psoriasis, pityriasis.
Stinging Nettle
