Frasera caroliniensis - American Columbo
"CONSTITUENTS: Gentiopicrin, gentisic acid, two distinct yellow coloring matters glucose, gum, sugar, salts.
PREPARATIONS: Specific Medicine Frasera. Dose: from five to thirty minims.
Therapy: This agent operates upon the stomach and digestive apparatus directly, influencing the tone of the glandular organs of the entire digestive tract. It is a stomachic tonic of considerable power, exercising its best influence when the apparatus is impaired by protracted disease. Under these circumstances it is also a stimulant and astringent to the secreting surfaces, correcting excessive night sweats common to such a condition, controlling the diarrhea and dysentery where there are relaxed and atonic mucous membranes.
In that form of catarrhal gastritis, where there is a sense of fullness in the stomach after eating even a little food, it improves the digestion and relieves the distress, and where there is marked debility improves the tone of all the organs."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)