Unnamed medications A list of unnamed medications . Analgesic cream . While the was invaded by the Borg and was visiting the year 2063 , the EMH program – tasked , by Doctor Beverly Crusher , with having to stall a group of Borg drone s – tried to do so by offering to prescribe them an analgesic cream , as Borg implant s could cause severe skin irritation . ( ) Angosian enhancement drugs . Doctor Beverly Crusher detected a few unrecognizable drugs , along with macrospentol , cryptobiolin , and triclenidil , when examining Roga Danar in 2366 . ( ) Antiseptic fluid . This antiseptic fluid was used on an unnamed planet by Kaitaama . After Commander Charles Tucker III helped her select a vial of it from a medkit , Kaitaama applied it to a scratch on his back . Tucker initially tensed slightly when the lotion was first put on , but Kaitaama persisted and thereafter sealed the wound with a medical dressing . ( ) Contraction stimulating drug . This drug was administered by hypospray . It could speed up a pregnant woman ' s contractions . In 2378 , Tom Paris administered this drug to in order to deliver her fourth baby , as he was losing its heart beat . ( ) Kidney pill . This pill , when ingested , would cause the spontaneous growth of a new kidney , at least in Human s . While visiting a San Francisco hospital in 1986 , Dr . Leonard McCoy gave this pill to an elderly patient who was suffering from " kidney dialysis . " He joked , " " Now you swallow that and if you have any problems , just call me . " " Soon , she was being wheel ed through the hospital , announcing to everyone , " " The doctor gave me a pill , and I grew a new kidney ! " " The doctors who worked at the hospital were at a loss , quizmatically looking at her charts stating her kidney was in fact " fully functional . " ( ) Mental illness medicine . Described as " revolutionary " , the Federation hoped to eradicate mental illness with this medicine . It was to be delivered intravenous ly unless the physiology of the patient in question made it impossible . Its effect was almost immediate , reversing arterial and brain damage shortly after injection . In 2268 , the delivered a quantity of this medicine to the Elba II asylum , to be administered to its patients . While masquerading as Dr . Donald Cory , Garth expressed his doubts about the medicine ' s effectiveness . Garth subsequently destroyed the medicine , or poison , as he called it . In an ultimately unsuccessful bid to win her help , Kirk assured Marta that there was more medicine aboard the " Enterprise " . While contacting Montgomery Scott back on the ship , he asked him to tell McCoy to prepare more medicine . He also ( again unsuccessfully ) attempted to turn other asylum patients against Garth , saying he ' d get a patrol to bring more of the medicine for them , but he needed their cooperation . Following Garth ' s treatment with this drug , he quickly returned to lucidity , unable to remember Captain Kirk or anything about his own madness at all . ( ) Ocampa moss . According to the Ocampa nurse , this green moss was growing on certain fruit tree s . It was discovered by accident that it has healing properties while cultivating these trees in an Ocampa colony . She gave a small jar of this moss to Harry Kim which should reduce the pain he had because of the tumor ous growths . ( ) Red pills . Dr . Leonard McCoy prescribed these red pill s to James T . Kirk in 2266 . A week later , after McCoy called Kirk to check on the search for a missing Nancy Crater , Kirk asked whether he could sleep . When McCoy said no , Kirk suggested he take one of the red pills , because it would put him to sleep . ( ) Background information . In the revised final draft script of , a Romulan commander tried to administer a medicine that wasn ' t named in the script to a centurion who , in the episode , is shown being injured in battle . The commander attempted to get the centurion to drink the medicine . However , it was rejected by the centurion because , due to chest pain , he was finding swallowing too difficult . Another scripted but unnamed medicine was featured in the final draft script of . This drug was described as " a small white pill " . Dr . McCoy took it out of a medic kit in sickbay aboard the " Enterprise " . He then administered it to an unconscious and nearly dead Simon Van Gelder , putting it into Van Gelder ' s mouth , and after " a long wait , " Van Gelder regained consciousness .