Condurango

Botanical: Gonolobus Condurango (NICHOLS)
Family: N.O. Asclepiadaceae

• Description
• Constituents
• Medicinal Action and Uses
• Dose
• Caution

---Constituents---A large quantity of tannin, a glucoside and an alkaloid resembling strychnine in its action.

---Medicinal Action and Uses---Diuretic stomachic, alterative. Has been regarded as a potential remedy for cancer and is useful in the early stages, but has no effect in the progress of the disease. There are many varieties of the plant, and the species experimented with in cancer is the Condurango blanco, which may be considered a genuine C. Cortex. It is largely used in South America as an alterative in chronic syphilis and is of great benefit.

It increases the circulation.

---Dose---Fluid extract, 1/2 to 1 drachm.

---Caution---Overdoses produce convulsions, ending in paralysis, vertigo and disturbed sight.

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