SECTION 100
NETTLE.
GENERAL INDICATIONS for Urtica Urens
Itching blotches upon the skin, hives - tickling in the anus as from seat worms - scanty secretion of milk.
Minute Dose
Section 56, B.
Ordinary Dose
Adult, 5 to 10 drops of the tincture. Child, see Section 56, B.
Hives - Nettle rash. Urtica urens tincture, adult, drop doses every hour, specific. Into 1/2 ounce of pure alcohol put 1 drop of croton oil, shake well together, adult take 5 to 10 drops of the solution every 2 hours - unfailing. Chloral, 1 grain doses, for adult soon cures hives.
Sciatica. A chronic case reported cured by application of Nettle boiled and put on the seat of pain as a poultice, 3 times a day; the part being bathed each time before the application of the poultice, with hot whiskey.
Seat worms. - (pin worms). Urtica urens, 3 drops of the tincture on sugar at bedtime; three doses are generally enough to cure.