94 ORD. XLI. Scabride. HUMULUS LUPULUS. 
or, more directly, of a deranged state of the stomach and bowels, are certainly 
much relieved by this medicine. It frequently induces sleep, and quiets 
nervous irritation, without causing costiveness, or impairing, like opium, the 
tone of the stomach, and merely increasing primary disease. The prepara- 
tion most commonly used in this city, is the tincture prepared by digesting 
3ij of the lupulin in Oj of aleohol—dose, from 3i to 3ij. Inquietude and 
watchfulness, connected with excessive irritability in all its gradations, from 
the restlessness consequent upon exhaustion and fatigue, to the most uncon- 
trollable paroxysm of delirium tremens, are more frequently allayed by this 
remedy than any other in ordinary use. Another eligible mode of exhibit- 
ing, the lupulin, is in pills. From two to four pills, each containing three 
grains of the powder, may be given at a dose. Dr. Desroches, who pub- 
lished a dissertation on the hop in 1803, supposed that its narcotic principle 
resided in the essential oil; but is it not more than probable that this was a 
conjecture, arising from the imaginary soporific virtues of the hop-pillow? 
It requives much experience, and accurate observation to speak confidently 
upon this subject; but, from having frequently used the lupulin collected 
from old hops, in which little aroma seemed to remain, and also the extract, 
prepared by decoction, by which process the essential oil is chiefly dissipated, - 
[ am still of opinion, that its narcotic properties reside in the resinous ex- 
tract.” Externally, an ointment compounded with the powder of the hop 
and lard, is reeommended by Mr. Freake as an anodyne application to can- 
cerous sores, and a decoction, used as a fomentation, affords much relief in _ 
painful tumefactions. A cataplasm, made of an infusion of the strobiles has 
been applied to ill-conditioned ulcers, with decided benefit, 
Off. pp. Extractum Humuli. L 
Tinctura Humuli. L. E. 
Mode of employing Lupulin. Lupulin may be ‘administered in form of 
extract, tincture, pills, powder, or syrup. . The Extract may be prepared 
either with the aqueous infusion, or with the decoction; when prepared 
with the latter, it is equally bitter, but less aromatic—dose, from five to ten 
ains, 
Pills of Lupulin. Bruise the lupulin strongly,* and divide into pills of 
two or three grains each, of which from two to four may be taken for a dose. 
* This substance becomes converted into a ductile mass, which renders 
it unnecessary 
to add any excipient, 
