Fremont Silktassel
Physio-Medical Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Pharmacy BY T. J. LYLE, A.M.M. 1897
This is an ornamental evergreen shrub growing from five to ten feet high. The leaves excite a profuse saliva, give a sense of gastric and intestinal warmth and impart a persistent bitter taste closely resembling that of Cinchona.
It is a gently stimulating tonic and antiperiodic. It stimulates the circulation and especially so when used in hot infusion. In large doses it creates a cerebral fullness and tinnitus auriam somewhat similar to those symptoms when induced by quinine. It leaves no other unpleasant after-effects.
In dysentery and diarrhoea where these conditions show some signs of malaria this agent will give good results. In hot infusion it will abort many a case of malarial fever, and cases of chronic ague soon yield to it.