A practical treatise on the anti-asthmatic properties of the bladder-podded lobelia ... with instructions as to diet, exercise, &C. ... to which is added, an account of the chirayita herb / by Richard Reece.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.
Date:
[1829]
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    , ON THE ANTI-ASTHMATIC PROPERTIES OF THE BLADDER-PODDED LOBELIA. (LOBELIA INFLATA OF LINN.) The genus of plants, of which the Bladder- podded Lobelia is a species, was termed Lobelia, in compliment to a celebrated botanist, Matthias de Lobel. This species, to which Linnams gave the name of inflata, grows in a wild state, in great abundance, in several parts of North Ame- rica. The leaves and capsules are acrid; the powdered leaves, in the dose of ten grains, produce nausea, and in the dose of fifteen grains often excite vomiting, which is sometimes followed by profuse perspiration. It also often operates slightly as an aperient. Dr. Bridault de Villiers recommends the plant to be collected in the month of August. It appears by the Ame- rican physicians, that its peculiar anti-spasmodic, or rather its anti-asthmatic virtues, reside in all the parts of the plant, but that the root and capsules are the most potent. This species has lately been found by some eminent physicians of the