Materia Medica

Condurango

Condor Plant

Stimulates the digestive functions and thus improves the'general health. Allays the pain in gastralgia ac- companying cancer of stomach. Modifies secretions of digestive glands. Varicose ulcers. Lupus. Painful cracks in corncr of mouth is a guiding symp- tom of this drug. Chronic gastric catarrh, syphilis, and cancer. Tumors; stricture of cesophagus. The active principle ICondurangin] produces locomotor ataxia.

Stomach

Painful affections of the stomach; ulcera- tion. Vomiting of food, and indurations, constant burn- ing pain. Stricture of cesophagus, with burning pains behind sternum, where food seems to stick. Voiniting of food, and indurations in left hypochondrium with constant burning pain.

Skin

Fissures form about the muco-cutaneous out- lets. Epithelioma of lips or anus. Ulcerative stage of carcinoma cutis when fissures form.

Relationships

Compare: Astcrias; Conium; Hy- drast.; Arsenic.

Dose

Tincture, or bark, 5-grain doses before meals in water.