Kino

(PUroeorpas M(^gupia.)

DBSORiPTioif. — Called by the natives "red-gum," It Is a juice which exudes from the trunk of a tree growing in Australia and other portions of iJie tropics. It comes In the form of a laminated, friable muss, which, when reduced to powder, ia of a brownish purple color.

Oepioinal Pbepa bat ions.— Tritttfations or tincture, made by macera- Uing one part in aine of alcoliol; dilutiona.

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LACHNANTHES TIKCTOEIA. 385

'Aim, Qerardwn mae., CkUUe acid, Tannin, Ehatany., Ifi/a,

Nitric acid, Stdphwrie aeid, etc,

{Fragmmtta^ Proving.)

Colicky pain toward evening and all the next day, with bear- ing-down and inclination to stool,. bet without evacuation.

Colic pains, with bearing-down in the lower bowel; the pain was relieved by lying flat on the face; in the morning a hard, dry evacuation was passed, with a little blood at the end of the passage.

For four or five days after this the bowels were obstinately constipated, the latter terminating in sickness and diar- rhtea, with extreme giddiness and debility; (relieved by Ipecac.)

Evacuations hard, with sensation of tnrgescence of the mucona lining of the bowels; slight bearing-down, with frequent desire for an evacuation.

Nausea, headache, great amount of flatulent distension, appe- tite decreased.

Mucous lining of the bowels irritable, with evacuations tending to diarrhtea, with bearing-down and rapid action of the bowels.

* Chronic dysentery.

* Constipation, following dysentery.