Flowering Spurge

Gastro-intestinal irritation with greenish and irritant passages.

Clinical Notes. Historical Eclectic remedy Root bark gathered in fall Milky sap irritating to skin (vesicant). Seldom used medicinally due to irritating/uncertain qualities PFAF. Cherokee uses include purgative cancer treatment sores Facebook post laxative Nurture Native Nature

Action and Therapy. In full doses euphorbia is a comparatively mild emetic; in overdoses it causes drastic emeto-catharsis. It was formerly used to fulfill the purposes of an emetic and purgative in dropsical conditions. It is now used chiefly in small doses for irritation of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts.

Action and Therapy. True, testing this plant upon himself, found the infusion to produce a full frontal headache, similar to but less severe than that caused by macrotys, with an unpleasant fullness with oppression at the epigastrium, and a sense of languor and drowsiness.

Action and Therapy. This is an old American medicine that was formerly employed as a substitute for ipecac. It is less active than Euphorbia corollata, but like it produces emeto-catharsis. In small doses it quiets irritation of the mucous membranes, proving useful in both gastrointestinal and bronchial disorders. The indications and uses are practically the same as those given for Euphorbia corollata, which see. Besides, it has been advised in irritative dyspepsia, and jaundice with obstinate hepatic torpor. For the latter purposes the larger doses are to be employed.