Juglans cinerea - Butternut
"CONSTITUENTS: A resin, juglandin, a fixed oil, juglandic acid.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Juglandis Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Juglans: Dose, from one minim to one-half dram. Tinctura Juglandis, Tincture of Juglans: Dose, from five minims to one dram. Specific Medicine Juglans: Dose, from one-third to one minim; prescribed from ten drops to one-half dram in four ounces of water, a teaspoonful every one, two or three hours. Juglandin: Dose, from one-fifth of a grain to one grain.
Therapy: It is said to be a valuable remedy in duodenal catarrh, with torpidity of the liver and chronic jaundice. Small doses have been successfully employed in dysentery, bilious diarrhoea, and in intestinal diseases, with symptoms indicating irritability, hyperemia, or a tendency to inflammation. Chronic constipation can be successfully corrected by medium doses of the extract, if the affection depends upon defective elimination of bile, causing the stools to be clay-colored and dry from a lack of biliary and glandular secretion.
Combined with other agents, as hyoscyamus, belladonna, nux vomica, leptandra or capsicum, a most excellent pill can be made, which will cure many cases the above conditions, and will stimulate the stomach and intestinal tract, in those atonic or debilitated conditions which induce chronic dyspepsia.
In the skin disorders named under dandelion, pustular and eczematous, it will act in the same manner as dandelion, and may be advantageously combined with that agent.
It is specifically adapted to skin diseases associated with some abnormal condition of the intestinal tract. Eczema, herpes circinatus, acne, impetigo, pemphigus, rupia, prurigomoluscum, lichen and chronic scaly skin diseases, yield to its influence with appropriate auxiliary measures. Irritation of mucous membranes, chronic inflammation of the throat, eruption over the body like that of scarlatina, noli me tangere, scrofulous enlargement of glands, congestion and irritation of the respiratory and gastric mucous membranes, nursing sore mouth, ulcers in the mouth with constipation, rheumatism of the muscles in the lumbar region, yield to its influence. ..."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)