Melaleuca cajuputi (leucadendra) - Cajuput
"CONSTITUENTS: Cajeputene, iso-cajeputene, and para-cajeputene.
PREPARATIONS: Spiritus Cajuputi, Spirit of Cajuput. Dose: one fluid dram. Mistura Cajuputi Composita, compound Cajuput Mixture. (Hunn's Life Drops.) Dose: from, one to two fluid drams. Tinctura Camphorae Composita, Compound Tincture of Camphor. Dose: twenty drops.
Therapy: It is used in the typhoid state, in the stage of collapse in Asiatic cholera, in exhaustion from cholera infantum, the typhoid condition in malignant scarlet fever.
Oil of cajuput is a diffusible stimulant of great power, and is indicated in all depressed and collapsed states of disease where there is no inflammation; such as we find in the advanced stage of adynamic fevers and malignant diseases.
Cajuput is a vermifuge, and may be used to destroy intestinal worms. It is antispasmodic, and is one of the most successful remedies ever employed in the painful cramps of Asiatic cholera. It is equally efficient in cholera morbus, cholera infantum, nervous vomiting, hysteria, and wherever there is depression of the vital powers associated with spasmodic action...."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)