Epilobium angustifolium - Wickup, Willow herb
"PREPARATIONS: Extractum Epilobii Fluidum. Fluid Extract of Epilobium Dose: from five to sixty minims Specific Medicine Epilobium. Dose: from ten to sixty minims.
Therapy: It will be curative also in general relaxed, subacute or acute cases of diarrhea, after the stage of inflammation has passed, but is not as reliable a remedy at that time as geranium. In muco-enteritis it is of some service in conjunction with the indicated remedies. It is very useful in the diarrhea of typhoid fever; it acts kindly and surely. The author seldom uses any other astringent when these conditions are present. It exercises an apparent tonic influence upon the mucous and glandular structures of the entire intestinal canal, overcoming ulceration, and being of material benefit in the more speedy restoration of normal function.
In the treatment of chronic eczema, epilobium was strongly advocated by one of our best physicians. He often gave it in conjunction with juglans. In that class of inveterate cases that was at first papular and finally squamous, he got excellent results. Dr. Goss had great faith in epilobium as a skin remedy. He gave it in doses from fifteen to twenty minims, and in persistent cases he would make all infusion of the herb, having the patient drink it freely."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)