(Solanum Dulcamara.)
The Twigs of _Woody Nightshade_, or _Bitter-sweet_.
The virtues of this plant are extracted by boiling water, but long
coction destroys them; the usual and best form in which it can be
administered is that of decoction or infusion. This plant is much more
appreciated on the continent than in this country; we rarely use it
except in cutaneous affections; Professor Richter of Gottingen states
that he has employed it in _Phthisis Pituitosa_ with very extraordinary
success; and Sir A. Crichton says that in the few cases of chronic
tubercular Phthisis in which he has given it, it appeared to increase
the powers of the Sarsaparilla with which it was usually combined.
OFFICINAL PREP: _Decoct: Dulcam:_ L.