NEW ZEALAND MEDICINAL PLANTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 108, 27 June 1885, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND MEDICINAL PLANTS.

Da Francis A. Monokton, surgeon superintendant of the Kunmra Hospital, contributes an article to the January number of the Australasian Me.lic.il Gazette, on "The New Zealand Fiaix (Phormium Terax), -uui ltd Therapeutic Value." Dv JVLmokton says :—"1: — "1 have used it in hundreds of cases, including lacerations and amputations of every description, and I have no hesitation in saying that there id nothing known in the old country that can oqu.il it in producing 1 healthy granulations. 1 use a strong decoction — the stronger the better — made from the roots and the butts of the leaves, boiled for twelve hours. At one time [ had to make it fresh every second day, ns it roadilv ferments and deterioia\es, but since carbolic acid came into vogue I keep ifc for any length of time by adding about an ounce of equal parts of carbolic acid and glycerine to every quart. I require no other antiseptic precautions but simply syringe the lesions occasionally with it and maintain collon wool or lint, soaked in it, constantly to the. parts effected. If there- are" no foreign matters to be discharged, there will be no discharge.'* Or Mockton also states that the modi cine to be obtained from New Zealand woodbine or clematis is .superior to the 'New Zealand vironica (koroneiko) in jases of of diarrhoea.