SECTION 108.
PASSION FLOWER.
Minute Dose
Passiflora incarnata, Section 56, B.
Ordinary Dose
Adult, 30 to 60 drops, every 1/4 to 1/2 hour. Child, see Section 56, B.
Sleeplessness - Neuralgia - Convulsions - Spasms - Tetanus. - "Passiflora incarnata, adult, 30 drops of the tincture every hour, produces quiet, pleasant sleep, altogether different from the stupor of morphia. Even in the worst forms of sleeplessness as that associated with suicidal mania, the drug produces quiet slumber, from which the patient awakes with clear mind. In ordinary doses given every 1/4 to 1/2 hour it completely controls convulsions, spasms, lock - jaw. It never fails to cure lockjaw in a horse.
"In the treatment of Erysipelas there is no remedy acts better than Passiflora, given in ordinary doses, as often as occasion seems to require.".