Re: H I V

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I believe Prof. has had some good results with Yerba Santa or

that tryvector shape in your device, I would imagine hydration and

oxidation are key issues here.

Yerba Santa's Botanical name: Eriodictyon glutinosum

Also known as Mountain Balm. Consumptive's Weed. Gum Bush. Bear's

Weed. Holy or Sacred Herb. Eriodictyon Californicum.

---Part Used---Dried leaves.

---Habitat---California, Northern Mexico.

---Description---A low, shrubby evergreen plant, 2 to 4 feet high,

found growing abundantly in clumps on dry hills in California and

Northern Mexico. The stem is smooth, usually branched near the ground,

and covered with a peculiar glutinous resin, which covers all the

upper side of the plant. Leaves, thick and leathery, smooth, of a

yellowish colour, their upper side coated with a brownish varnish-like

resin, the under surface being yellowish-white reticulated and

tomentose, with a prominent midrib, alternate, attached by short

petioles, at acute angle with the base; shape, elliptical, narrow, 2

to 5 inches long 3/4 inch wide, acute and tapering to a short

leaf-stalk at the base. The margin of the leaf, dentate, unequal,

bluntly undulate. The flowers, bluish, in terminal clusters of six to

ten, in a one-sided raceme, the corolla funnel-like, calyx sparsely

hirsute.

---Constituents---The chief constituents are five phenolic bodies,

eriodictyol, homoeriodictyol, chrysocriol, zanthoeridol and eridonel.

Free formic and other acids, glycerides of fatty acids; a yellow

volatile oil; a phytosterol, a quantity of resin, some glucose. Taste,

balsamic and sweetish, afterwards acrid, but not bitter, creates a

flow of saliva. Odor, aromatic. The leaves are brittle when dry, but

flexible in a warm, moist atmosphere. Eriodictyon Californicum is

official name in the United States Dispensary. Alcohol is the best

agent for the fluid extract of the dried plant.

Medicinal Action and Uses most commonly recommended for bronchial and

laryngeal troubles and in chronic pulmonary affections, in the

treatment of asthma and hay-fever in combination with Grindelia

robusta. Likewise advised for hemorrhoids and chronic catarrh of the

bladder. Much used in California as a bitter tonic and a stimulating

balsamic expectorant and is a most useful vehicle to disguise the

unpleasant taste of quinine. In asthma, the leaves are often smoked.