Prologue
Boericke
Pichi
- A South American shrub cultivated in Southern California.
- It is a terebrinthine diuretic.
- It has also tonic and chologogue properties, used in the treatment of nasal catarrh, jaundice, dyspepsia and to increase the secretion of bile (Albert Schneider).
- Useful in the uric acid diathesis, cystitis, gonorrhoea, prostatitis, dysuria, vesical catarrh with suppurative prostatic conditions; post-gonorrhoeal urinary conditions; cholethiasis and liver affections.
- Vesical tenesmus and burning after urination.
- Excoriating urine and calculi.