Sambucus. Sambucus canadensis.
Botanical name:
Synonym—Elder
PREPARATIONS—
- Specific Sambucus. Dose, from two to ten drops.
Therapy—The strong infusion is diaphoretic and stimulating. The agent has also alterative, cathartic and diuretic properties which are of value in urinary inactivity, with excretion of renal sand, accompanied with muscular aching, stiffness, or rheumatic pains.
A strong infusion is sometimes of great service in removing dropsical effusions. Cases are reported in which extreme general dropsy seemed to threaten immediate death, where relief was quickly and permanently obtained by the use of this remedy.
The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1919, was written by Finley Ellingwood, M.D.
It was scanned by Michael Moore for the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine.
