MUSA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Musa sapientium, L.
Natural order , Palmæ.
Common name , Banana.
Preparation , Tincture of the flowers.
Authority.
Dr. Jenner, Month. Hom. Rev., 9, 545, "Fragmentary Provings of Australian Plants."
HEAD
- Dull, heavy frontal headache.
MOUTH AND THROAT
- Dry, rough, and extremely astringent taste and feeling in the mouth, tongue, and fauces, but afterwards an increased flow of saliva.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN
- Rumbling in stomach and bowels, with expulsion of flatus.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Improvement and ultimate cure of profusely bleeding hæmorrhoids (a case which had resisted every kind of treatment), (curative effect).
STOOL
- Costiveness (in a person of very regular habits), with feeling of fulness about the anus.
URINARY ORGANS
- Discharge of large quantities of mucous with the urine, attended with dull, aching pain in the region of the bladder.