Cucurbita Pepo

An excellent remedy for tapeworm which may be given with safety to

children. The seeds are scalded. The outer skins being softened are peeled off, the green inner

pulp being the part used. Two ounces of the seeds, yielding an ounce of the pulp, should be used

for each patient. The pulp should be rubbed in a mortar or some other vessel to make a smooth

mass. It may be mixed with milk or cream, and sweetened and taken like porridge. It should be

taken in the morning after a twelve to sixteen hours' fast, and be followed in two hours by a

castor-oil purge. Hale's method is as follows: The patient to eat but little of the lightest food all

day, take no supper, and on going to bed eat one ounce of the peeled seeds, bruised with milk or

cream. In the morning on waking, to take a tablespoonful of castor oil, mixed with half a

teaspoonful of pure Sulphuric ether. No breakfast to be taken—only a cup of tea or coffee. In two

or three hours the oil will operate, expelling the worm. Hansen mentions that missionaries find

the mother tincture of great use in sea-sickness and vomiting of pregnancy. Bonino records that

Cucurb. p. 3 cured salivation and vomiting in a woman in whom the menses were absent, and

• ▸who was erroneously supposed to be pregnant.
• ▸L.
• ▸E.
• ▸Griste records the following case: A

woman, four months pregnant, had vomited almost from conception, and for six weeks had not

retained a meal. "I am almost starved to death," she said; was pale, haggard; tongue clean. Soon

after eating or drinking anything she became intensely nauseated. The doctor got a fresh

pumpkin stem, cut it into thin slices and covered them with alcohol. At the end of half an hour he

poured off a little and made a ix dilution, and directed half a drachm to be put in half a teacupful

• ▸of water; a teaspoonful every two hours.
• ▸There was no further vomiting.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Griste's indication

is—"Intense nausea immediately after eating."

Compare: Filix; Cuprum oxid nig.

• ▸Tincture.
• ▸The seeds are a valuable remedy for tapeworm.
• ▸Scald the seeds and peel off the outer skins when softened, the green inner pulp being the part used.
• ▸Dose: two ounces of seed, yielding one of pulp.
• ▸May be mixed with cream and taken like porridge.
• ▸Take-in morning after twelve hours' fasting, and follow in two hours by castor oil.