Chelone glabra, Snakehead.
Botanical name:
Please read the introduction to Boericke's tinctures.
A remedy in liver affections with pain or soreness of the left lobe of the liver and extending downwards. Dumb ague. Soreness of external parts, as if skin were off; debility. Malaise, following intermittents. Dyspepsia with hepatic torpor. Jaundice. Round and thread worms. It is an enemy to every kind of worm infesting the human body.
Dose.--Tincture, in one to five drop doses.
Boericke's Materia Medica, 1901, was written by William Boericke. Excerpt: The Tinctures.
