Coto bark
Plant · Lauraceae
Clarke
Coto Bark is indicated primarily for chronic tubercular, watery diarrhea that is very copious and exhausting. Clinical experience rather than formal proving guides its use.
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900
Coto Bark. A bark of unknown botanical origin (N. O. Lauraceæ?) obtained from Bolivia. Tincture. Trituration of alkaloid Cotoin.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Tubercular diarrhœa.
Characteristics
The bark has been used in medicine as a diarrhœa remedy, probably from aboriginal tradition. Hansen says it is especially valuable in "chronic tubercular, watery diarrhœa, very copious and exhausting." Substantial doses only have been used.
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