Piscidia erythrina (piscipula) - Jamaica Dogwood
"CONSTITUENTS: Piscidin, Resin, Oil, Calcium Oxalate
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Piscidiae Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Piscidia. Dose: from a half to two drams.
Therapy: In susceptible patients it will control pain and relieve general distress. It is distinctly a nerve sedative, and overcomes nervous excitability and also reflex irritability. It is an antispasmodic of much power in mild cases.
If given during the course of inflammatory fever of any character, and in inflammatory rheumatism, it is a useful and grateful remedy. It does not oppose other indicated agents, and induces the often needed sleep.
In violent spasmodic cough it produces relief, and in the irritating persistent cough of bronchitis it is of service as an auxiliary to cough syrups. In phthisis it controls the night cough and induces restful sleep. ..."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)