QUASSIAQuassia Chips come from Jamaica and the Caribbean Islands. It was called after Quassi, a native of Surinam, who first discovered its tonic and febrifuge properties, which he employed with great success in the cure of malignant fevers. It is a very powerful tonic, invigorating the digestive organs and the intestinal canal, with little excitement of the circulation, or increase of animal heat. Its taste is intensely bitter. It is excellent for nervous irritability, intermittent, and bilious remittent fevers, looseness, and gout. It is good for female complaints, as hysterics, the effect of debility. An infusion may be made by pouring a pint of boiling water on a drachm of the chips, as a tonic and antiseptic, in bilious fevers, united with Alkaline Salts. Dose from 1 to 2 ounces, repeated twice or thrice a day; in gout, with aromatics and ginger; in hysteria, with Camphor and Tincture of Valerian.
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