Leonurus cardiaca - Motherwort
"CONSTITUENTS: Bitter principle, volatile oil.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Leonuri Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Leonurus: Dose, from a half to two drams.
Therapy: It is prescribed in the above conditions, also in delirium tremens, typhoid state in fevers, chronic diseases with wakefulness, restlessness, disturbed sleep, spinal irritation, neuralgia of the stomach and head, feeble digestion, general debility, chorea, convulsions, nervousness from irregular menstruation, palpitation of the heart, associated with uterine disease, amenorrhea, with chlorosis, cachexia and an irritable, excitable, enfeebled state of the nervous system, spasms and harrassing bearing down pains, and morbid sensibility from uterine disease, pain in the pelvic and lumbar regions in females.
Motherwort is tonic and laxative, a diaphoretic somewhat like asclepias, an emmenagogue like cimicifuga and a nervine like scutellaria."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)