The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A remedial agent for the treatment of, and a preventative for, the following maladies: alcoholism, boils, car sickness, catarrh, cold, la grippe, dysentery, dyspepsia, eczema, epilepsy, headache, hysteria, impotency, indigestion, intestinal catarrh, kidney trouble, liver troubles, loss of memory, lumbago, malaria, malarial fever, menstrual pains, nervous collapse, nervous indigestion, nervousness, neuralgia, neurasthenia, neuritis, pimples, pneumonia, prickly heat, psoriasis, rheumatism, ring worm, rush of blood to the head, salt rheum, sea sickness, sleeplessness, sour brash, summer complaint, tetter, torpid liver, urinary complaints, vertigo, worms. A safe and effectual remedial agent for nervous and sick headache, nervous indigestion, hysteria, brain fatigue, sleeplessness, sea sickness, neuralgia, and the depression following alcoholic and other excesses, etc.
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