Cypripedium Pubescens

Hale has collected from old-school sources much experience respecting this

drug, showing its power over the genito-urinary system. The herb Damiana (the local name of

Turn. a.), has long been a domestic medicine in Mexico, where it is used to "invigorate the

system." Indian hunters discovered that a decoction of it was a great invigorator after wearisome

journeys; and they also found in it a cure for inability to exercise the reproductive functions in

both sexes. Hale gives many cases illustrating the latter. Among the causes of the defect in the

cured cases are injury to spine from a fall; sexual excess; syphilis or gonorrhoea, in the men; and

• ▸amenorrhcea, dysmenorrhcea, and leucorrhcea in the women.
• ▸Douglass (Hahn Ad.
• ▸, xxxix.
• ▸660)

reports three cases of incontinence of urine: Man, 63, for four years has had dribbling of urine

• ▸day and night.
• ▸Turn.
• ▸2x, in water, four times a day, cured in two months.
• ▸Another use of Turn.
• ▸is

• ▸recorded (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸xii.
• ▸, 410) in severe migraine, "One or two doses given within an hour causes the

headache to cease and induces sleep, from which the patient wakens free from headache and with

good appetite." This is perhaps analogous to the power of Turn. to dispel fatigue.

Irascibility and fitfulness; hysterical symptoms; sleeplessness; agitation.—Indifference.

Child cries out at night; is wakeful and begins to laugh and play. Headaches of elderly people and during climacteric.

Amenorrheea, with hysteria.—Great nervous debility and

despondency.—Irritability of vagina; hysterical symptoms, sleeplessness and agitation.

Sleeplessness: with desire to talk, a constant crowding of pleasant ideas; with

restlessness of body; twitching of limbs; after miscarriage for several nights in

succession.—Ecstasy; children awaken in night from sleep, "wide-awake," unnaturally playful,

with no desire to go to sleep again (often a preliminary to some brain affection).

Damiana.

• ▸Turnera aphrodisiaca.
• ▸Damiana.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Turneracez.
• ▸Tincture of fresh plant.

• ▸Amenorrhoea.
• ▸Dysmenorrheea.
• ▸Fatigue.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Leucorrheea.
• ▸Migraine.
• ▸Prostate,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Spermatorrheea.
• ▸Sterility.
• ▸Urine, incontinence of.

Compare: Impotence, injuries, over-exertion, fatigue, Bellis, Arn. Prostatic

affections, Sabal., Solid. Migraine, Epipheg.

Compare: Ambra; Kali brom; Scutellar; Valerian; Ignat. Skin relatives: Grindelia; Anacard.

Tincture, to sixth attenuation. For Poison Oak, 5 drops of tincture per dose, also locally.