Populus Tremuloides

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General

(American Aspen.) BoTABicAL DEeCRiPTiON Tbis tree, also known as the White poplar, grows from twenty to fifty feet iigh, with, a diameter of from eight to twelve inches. It is covered with a smooth, greenisli-white bark, except on the trunk of very old trees. The Uaves are orbicular-cordate, abruptly accuminate, dentate^serrate, smooth on both sides, pubescent at tlie mar- gins, dark-green, three nerved, from two to two and a half inches long, growing on long, slender, and laterally compressed petioles, which accounts for the continued agitation of the leaves by the sliglitest breeze, Aments plumed with silken hairs, about two inches long, pendulous, appearing in April, long before the leaves.

Scales cut into three or four deep linear divisions, and fringed with long hairs.

Officinal Prbpabatiobs. — Tincture of the inner bark and leaves with strong alcohol; dilutions; Popaijii and its triturations.

Analogces. — Arniea, Ohina, Oorrmi fiorida. Nun vomica, F-ulsatilla, Terebinlhina (?) Thuja.

(A Fragmentary proiting.)

Head

Fullness about the head, with general nervous excitement.

Gastric. A warm, pungent sensation in the stomach, followed bj aglow

of heat oil the entire surface.

Nausea and vomiting, and sHght purging of bilious matter.

Fever, with burning sensation in the stomach. ' Chronic dyspepsia, from gastric catarrh. {Sale) ° Impaired digestion, with chronic diarrhcea. {Eclectic!) " Dyspepsia, attended with torpor of the liver, or an unhealthy

bilious secretion. (-/^.) " As a remedy for mdigestion, accompanied with Jlaiulence a/nd acidity, we know of no single agent more to be relied upon. {Coe.) "An excellent remedy for the dyspeptic symptoms aetompa- iiying pregnancy, (/i.)

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POPULUS TEEMULOIDES. 62if

■^ Chronic diarrhcea and dysentery. (/J-)

° Jaundice. " Lumbricoid worms, (i^.) ITrinary Organs.

Very copious discharge of urine.

* Irritation of the bladder and urethra.

" Scalding of the nrine. {Eolectic^

° Suppression and retention of urine.

(TS.) .

" Paramount to all the rest (of its virtues) is its property of relieving painful urination, and heat and scalding of the urine, especially when these symptoms occur duriug preg- nancy.

(Coe.)

° In diseases of the bladder, urethra and prostate, I have found tlie greatest benefit from it. In several cases of cato/rrh of the bladder I have foond tliat two or three grains (of JPopuUn), four or five times a day, produced a moat favorable impression. {Pavne^

" An old gentleman troubled with vesical catarrh and ardor

vHnw, and chronic enlargement of the prostate, for many

yeai^, got prompt relief from two grains (of Populin),

three times a day, and was cured in four months. (_Pai?ie.)

[I have used the 1st and 3d ti-itu ration a of Populin in diseases of the

prostate, and with good resulta. (Sale.)}

Genital Organs.

" Gonorrhcea. ° Gleet, chronic.

° Highly recommended and extensively used in many diseases of the uterus and vagina.

°Prvrigo, from an aphthous condition of the mucous mem- brane of tlie vagina and an irritable condition of the lin- ing membrane of the uterus. (?) {Paine.)

" Leucorrhcea, with a/rdor wrinm and great debility.

° Hysteria — depending on debility; useful after the urgent symptoms have been qneiled.

It tranquiiizes the sympa- thetic disturbance from uterine excitement.

Pever.

" Intermittent fever. (The bark and leaves both contain a large percentage of /Salieine.)

" I have known many obstinate eases of ague cured hy an infu- sion, and the tinctnre of the bark in whiskey. 'Hale.)

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