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Cataria nepeta, Catnip.

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  2. Boericke, 1901: Materia Medica: the Tinctures.
Botanical name: 
Nepeta cataria
Please read the introduction to Boericke's tinctures.

Children's remedy for Colic, also for nervous headache and hysteria, abdominal complaints, pain, flexing of thighs, twisting of body, crying. Similar to chamomilla and magnes phosph.
Dose.--5 to 10 drops of the tincture.


Boericke's Materia Medica, 1901, was written by William Boericke. Excerpt: The Tinctures.

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