Aniba coto - Coto Bark
"CONSTITUENTS: A volatile alkaloid, volatile oil, resin, starch, gum, sugar, calcium oxalate, tannin, formic, butyric and acetic acids, cotoin, para-cotoin, oxyleucotin, leucolin, hydrocotin, dibenzoylhydrocotin, peperonylic acid.
PREPARATIONS: Fluid Extract of Coto Bark. Dose: from five to twenty minims.
Therapy: It is a carminative, stimulant and astringent. It has a specific effect on the alimentary canal but is not a suitable remedy where inflammation exists or is threatened, but rather should be employed in relaxed states, and where some poisonous element has been taken into the system in the food or drinking water. It is antiseptic or promotes asepsis.
It acts favorably in the diarrhoea of typhoid fever, in colliquative diarrhea from whatever cause, in the diarrhea of consumptives and in atonic and catarrhal diarrhea.
It possesses astringent properties and contracts the relaxed vessels. It is one of our most efficient remedies in the exhaustive sweats of consumptive patients. It may be given in ten drop doses of the fluid extract, repeated according to the urgency of the case."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)