Pterocarpus marsupium - Kino
"CONSTITUENTS: Pyrocatechin, kino-tannic acid, kino-red, kinoin.
PREPARATIONS: Tinctura Kino, Tincture of Kino. Dose: from ten to sixty minims.
Therapy: Kino is less used than formerly. It may be given whenever there is excessive secretion or excretion. In inordinate night sweats, either during convalescence from prostrating disease, or those of phthisis pulmonalis, it is a useful remedy. In the treatment of polyuria, kino is advised as an active agent with which to control the excessive output of water. It is also used in diabetes mellitus, and in protracted watery diarrheas without pain, characterized by relaxation and flabbiness of tissues, and general feebleness. It may be prescribed in the diarrhea of typhoid, also, with good results, especially if hemorrhage be present.
The powder may be blown into the nostrils in epistaxis, and it may be dusted on ulcers and bleeding surfaces. An injection of a strong solution is useful in leucorrhea and in other discharges either of a specific or nonspecific character. It is of some service in pharyngitis, or in elongated uvula, also in simple acute sore throats."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)