Alnus rubra - Tag Alder
"CONSTITUENTS: Not analyzed.
PREPARATIONS: Specific Medicine Alnus. Dose: from one to sixty minims.
Therapy: This agent combines both alterative and tonic astringent properties. It removes waste products, improves the tone of mucous structures and increases the secretory action of the glands of these structures. At the same time it prevents the flow of an excessive quantity of mucus into the stomach, and stimulates the flow of gastric juice and aids the digestion. It cures various forms of ulcerations in the mouth, or in the gastro-intestinal canal. It is advised in rhuspoisoning. It has accomplished satisfactory cures in pustular and eczematous disease of the skin."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)