Cypripedium pubescens - Yellow Ladies' Slipper
"CONSTITUENTS: Volatile oil, volatile acid, two resins, starch, fixed oil, sugar.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Cypripedii Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Cypripedium. Dose: from ten to thirty minims. Oleo-resin of Cypripedium. Dose: from one to three grains. Specific Cypripedium. Dose: from five to sixty minims.
Therapy: Cypripedium exercises a special influence upon nervous conditions induced by or depending upon disorders of the female genito-urinary organs. Hysteria, melancholia, restlessness with morbid excitability, sleeplessness, and pain from general hyperaesthesia induced by uterine or ovarian disorder will be benefited by this remedy. It will also relieve mental depression from spermatorrhea and venereal excesses, acting somewhat like pulsatilla.
With children it allays cerebral hyperaemia from teething, irritation of the brain in scrofulous children, with nervousness and sleeplessness, and irritation in cases in which the mental faculties are prematurely developed.
It may be used in morbid vigilance, and jactitation in typhoid fever, typhomania and great sinking of the vital powers in adynamic fevers, also where there is morbid depression from chronic dyspepsia.
Cypripedium stimulates the nervous system in a moderate degree, and is suitable for cases where nervousness is the chief feature. It will relieve pain where restlessness and nervousness are associated with headache or neuralgia. Under its influence these patients become cheerful, and the nervous agitation disappears.
The action of cypripedium is feeble, and relieves only functional derangement.
In scrofulous children its action is only temporary, and the syrup of calcium phosphate, with Fowler's solution, and cod-liver oil may be added to the treatment to overcome the constitutional tendency to development of tubercular disease."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)