Senecio aureus (Senecio aquaticus) - Life Root
"CONSTITUENTS: A bitter, acid principle, tannin, mucilage
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Senecionis Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Senecio. Dose: from half a dram to one dram. Specific Medicine Senecio. Dose: from one to forty minims.
Therapy: The agent is specifically a tonic to the nervous and muscular structure of the reproductive organs in the female. It regulates the periodical discharges, overcoming irregularity in the quantity of the monthly flow. It will render valuable assistance in the permanent cure of leucorrhea. It removes the sensation of weight and engorgement experienced by many ladies in pelvic disorders, especially accompanying uterine displacements, giving great relief.
It will be found of value in gonorrhea, gleet and prostatorrhea, and also in the sexual irritability, and impotence of the male.
Senecio has an influence on the mucous surfaces, relieving congestion and correcting catarrhal disorders. It assists digestion, stimulates the secretion of gastric fluids and overcomes the conditions which cause the food to lie heavily in the stomach. In the accumulation of frothy saliva it is useful and in a constipation accompanying uterine disorders it is especially valuable...."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)