General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ntly used, es-pecially as a styptic; andoften with apparent diseases of the mucousmembranes and in hemor-rhages it has been prescribedinternally with advantage. Solong ago as 1834, the authorsfriend, Dr. Ruschenberger, ofthe Navy, brought a specimenfrom South America to theUnited States. It is therecalled Yerba del Soldado,Soldiers weed. In Peru, ac-cording to a statement kindlyfurnished the author by , it has a popu-lar reputation of being awonderfully powerful styptic ;and it is s
General therapeutics and materia medica (volume 1): adapted for a medical text book . ntly used, es-pecially as a styptic; andoften with apparent diseases of the mucousmembranes and in hemor-rhages it has been prescribedinternally with advantage. Solong ago as 1834, the authorsfriend, Dr. Ruschenberger, ofthe Navy, brought a specimenfrom South America to theUnited States. It is therecalled Yerba del Soldado,Soldiers weed. In Peru, ac-cording to a statement kindlyfurnished the author by , it has a popu-lar reputation of being awonderfully powerful styptic ;and it is said, that soldiers,on going to battle, carry withthem a supply to stanch bloodwhen they receive leaf is moistened in themouth, and then applied. Matico is Jirtanthe elongata, Piper angustifolium of Ruiz and is said to contain resin and volatile oil; but its exact chemical con-stituents have not been determined. The specimens examined by theauthor had certainly no marked sensible properties. It is chiefly given in infusion of one ounce of the leaves to a pint of. Artanthe elongata. 132 SPECIAL ASTRINGENTS. boiling water; of which a fluidounce and a half is a dose;—and inTincture—two ounces and a half of the leaves to a pint of dilute al-cohol ; of which the dose is from one to three fluidrachms, two or threetimes a day. Both solutions may be used as external astringents; or,to stop hemorrhage, the inner side of the leaf may be pressed upon thebleeding vessel. As the author has remarked elsewhere, however, thedifficulty of establishing the action of styptics is considerable, as issufficiently exemplified in the history of the Acqua Binelli and theAcqua Brocchieri, (p. 116). The same difficulty exists in regard tothe determination of its powers as an internal astringent. After the dis-charge of an uncertain amount of blood, hemorrhage generally ceasesspontaneously ; and hence any article, that may have been administered,may acquire a haemastatic reputation.
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