Ailanthus glandulosa (Ailanthus altissima) - Chinese Sumach, Tree of Heaven
"It is of much service in scarlet fever, especially the malignant form, in typhoid, and other types of low fever and in low forms of acute inflammation. With special reference to the action of ailanthus as a tonic to the nervous system, it is efficient as a remedy in some cases of asthma as well as in epilepsy, and in many cases of epileptiform contraction of the muscles, etc. Frequently ailanthus will relieve nervous palpitations and severe cases of singultus, that for a long time have withstood other remedies.
With the Chinese, a decoction of ailanthus is a most favored remedy in tapeworm, dysentery and diarrhoea. Because of its special tonic effect on mucous membranes it is an excellent remedy in some cases of leucorrhea, etc. For the same reason it has been praised as a remedy in many dyspeptic troubles."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)