Acute dyspepsia is frequently relieved by chionanthus. It is of great work in hepatitis, both acute and chronic, but is not a specific in the jaundice of hepatitis. It often settles the irritable or refractory liver of the dipsomaniac. Chionanthus has few qualms in many cases of bilious, remittent and obstinate intermittent fever. It is very beneficial in overcoming the slow convalescence that frequently follows exhausting disease.
Bilious colic has a conqueror in specific chionanthus.
It relieves many cases of hypertrophic liver due to obstruction of its ducts and of a malarial character. The dose of specific medicine chionanthus is from five to ten drops well diluted and frequently repeated. Chionanthus has strong recommendations for efficiency as a local application in the form of cataplasms of poultices in inflammations, in severe ulcers, and we rely upon it in certain lines, and we are not disappointed. Specific chionanthus has a very rank odor, a dark amber color, and although it occasionally precipitated a heavy sediment, it does not deteriorate. By comparison, the Lloyd Brothers pharmacy reported in the year 1921 that chionanthus was second only to echinacea products in sales by that company, which supplied the Eclectic medical profession.