Sarracenia purpurea - Pitcher Plant, Sidesaddle Plant, Fly Trap, Water Cup
"CONSTITUENTS: Sarracenin, a resin, sarracenic acid.
PREPARATIONS: Specific Sarracenia. Dose: from two to twenty drops. Tincture Sarracenia. Dose: one dram.
Therapy: As a remedy in the treatment of zymotic disease this agent has been used with good results. It is given freely during the course of scarlet fever, measles and small-pox, and it is claimed that in every case it modifies the character of these diseases, shortens their course, and prevents sequelae. It has, as yet, no established place in therapeutics."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)