The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
AGAVE AMERICANA
Century Plant
General.–Indicated in stomach ache, and painful erections in gonorrhoea. Strangury. Hydrophobia. Scurvy; countenance pale, gums swollen and bleeding, legs covered with dark purple blotches, swollen, painful and hard. Appetite poor; bowels constipated.
Relationship.–Compare: Anhalonium; Lyssin; Lach.
Dose.–Tincture