. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 122 THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. MATICO (Piper Angustifolium). Medicinal Part. The leaves. DescHp'tion.—This is a tall shrub, presenting a singular appearance from its pointed stem and branches. The leaves are harsh, short- stalked, oblong-lanceolate, and acuminate. Flowers her- maphrodite. History. —This plant grows at Huanaco and elsewhere in Peru. The dried leaves are
. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 122 THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. MATICO (Piper Angustifolium). Medicinal Part. The leaves. DescHp'tion.—This is a tall shrub, presenting a singular appearance from its pointed stem and branches. The leaves are harsh, short- stalked, oblong-lanceolate, and acuminate. Flowers her- maphrodite. History. —This plant grows at Huanaco and elsewhere in Peru. The dried leaves are the parts used, and have a strong fragrant odor, and a warm, aromatic taste. They contain a dark-green resin, chlorophyll, brown and yellow coloring matter, gum, nitrate of potassa, matidne., a vola- tile oil, salts, and lignin. The plant has long been used by the Indians of Peru in venereal diseases, but mostly for diseases of the mucous membranes, over which it has a complete mastery. Having been employed as a me- chanical agei-t to stanch blood by a soldier, it has received the name of ISddiers' Herb. Praperties arui Uses.—Matico is an aromatic stimulant. It is extremely useful to arrest discharges from mucous surfaces, leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea, and catarrh of the blad- der. In this particular it is a very good substitute for Cubebs in the two last named diseases. As a topical agent for stanching blood it is excellent, and is used by surgeons to arrest venous hemorrhage. It acts mechanically as a styptic by the structure of its leaf which divides the blood and promotes its coagulation. Its use for this purpose is of course confined to arresting venous hemorrhage, only; from fresh cuts, wounds, abrasions, &c., and it is much more valuable for this purpose than is generally supposed. Dr. Ruschenberger made use of it in this way to arrest hemorrhage, after an operation on the side of the neck, below the angle of the jaw, in which there was considerable diffi- /:;ulty
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