Pilocarpus jaborandi - Jaborandi
"CONSTITUENTS: Pilocarpine, jaborine, volatile oil, tannic acid, volatile acid, potassium chloride.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Pilocarpi Fluidum. Fluid Extract of Pilocarpus. Dose: from five to sixty minims. Specific Medicine Jaborandi. Dose: from one-fourth of a minim to three minims.
Therapy: At the onset of acute febrile and inflammatory conditions, especially if there be rigors, hot, full head, and a bounding, hard pulse, a foot bath of hot water and a full dose of jaborandi with proper supportive treatment subsequently will often end the attack abruptly. The stage following the influence of the agent if the temperature has subsided, has all the conditions in which quinine works to its best possible advantage.
Several recent writers have written enthusiastically on the action of jaborandi or pilocarpine in establishing a favorable crisis early in the severe forms of acute disease. Pernicious malarial fever, typho-malarial fever, inflammatory rheumatism, and other of the severer forms of inflammatory disease they claim may be aborted by the use of full doses of this remedy. Where jaborandi can be administered by the mouth, it is preferable, although some claim that pilocarpine hypodermically invariably produces better results...."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)