Luffa
Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 577
Dried fruit of a Brazilian plant called Cabacinha.
Authority. (Dr. Scott Alison, Pharm. Journ., vol. iv, 1845, Berridge’s Collection, New Eug. Med. Gaz., 1876, p. 303). 1, a man, aged thirty years, took 4 grain extract; 2, a woman, took 40 drops tincture.
Within one-quarter of an hour he was overcome with faintness and nausea. He swallowed a little warm water, and immediately vomited freely. No violent action of the bowels followed, but for some days afterwards the stools were more than usually copious,’.—She had nausea for two days and retched a little,