The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For use in epilepsy, hydrophobia [rabies], spasmodic asthma, whooping cough, dysmenorrhoea, retention of urine, hemmorrhoids, fissure and other affections of the anus and rectum, some neuralgic affections, rheumatism, local anodyne for bruises, sprains, and local injury including poisoning by Rhus toxicodendron [poison ivy], pupil dilation [The National Dispensatory, 5th Edition, 1896]