Scutellaria lateriflora - Scullcap, madweed, hoodwort
"CONSTITUENTS: A bitter principle (crystalline glucoside), volatile oil, fat, tannin, sugar.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Scutellariae Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Scutellaria. Dose: from five to thirty minims. Infusum Scutellariae, Infusion of Scutellaria. Specific Scutellaria. Dose: from one to ten minims.
Therapy: Its soothing influence upon the nervous system conduces to quiet and restful sleep. In large doses in delirium tremens, it is a sufficient remedy. Its influence will be enhanced by combining, it with capsicum, the tincture of red cinchona, or some other non-alcoholic stimulant. Combined with cimicifuga, the value of both these agents is increased in their adaptability to chorea.
In restlessness, or in nervous excitability producing insomnia, and in prolonged fevers, it promotes sleep and at the same time stimulates the skin and kidneys to increased activity. Its soothing influence is retained after the agent is discontinued. The agent was at one time supposed to exercise an influence over the spasms of hydrophobia, but it is doubtless too feeble for such a purpose."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)