Client lost more blood. Visibly less bruising, less inflammation, and more complete healing after recent procedure compared to previous year. Started active skiing and snowboarding after not being able to do so for more than five years. This article is reprinted from the 1898 volume of the Eclectic Medical Journal. Bloyer was professor of materia medica at the Eclectic Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Editorial comments follow the article.
There is no more prompt and positive medicine in the materia medica than chionanthus. When given in functional liver difficulties due to some wrong of the mucous surface of its ducts, it seldom fails. It will not cure all cases of jaundice, but it will cure nearly all in which there is no structural disease of the liver. It may be said to be specifically indicated by clay-colored stools, yellowness of the skin and conjunctiva, high colored, even brown urine, with uneasiness or pain in the right hypochondrium of the liver, or with abdominal pain or colic, and great prostration. It is another remedy that acts dynamically.