Xanthium spinosum - Cocklebur, Clotbur
"CONSTITUENTS: -
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Xanthii Fluidum; Fluid Extract of Xanthium. Dose: from ten to twenty minims. Specific Medicine Xanthium. Dose: from five to fifteen minims.
Therapy: Dr. Homsher suggested its use in irritable bladder troubles; specifically in chronic cystitis, with thickening of the bladder walls, with frequent urination, painful tenesmus, constant sensation of weight in the region of the bladder, with the continued passage of minute calculi, cases in which there are doubtless sand or gravelly deposits in the folds of the bladder, perhaps imbedded in the mucous structure, a condition not uncommon in females.
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)"