The bulb, consisting of several combined cloves, is stimulating, antispasmodic, expectorant, and diuretic.

Camphor has long been used as a so-called antispasmodic in hysteric or other nervously irritable persons.

On the day of death there was considerable distention, and a gentle purgative and antispasmodic were given.

NOTE.-Thisis an antispasmodic and relaxant.

The whole plant is sedative and antispasmodic, being of service by its preparations to relieve sleeplessness, nervous headache, and muscular rheumatism.

Dispensatory: This plant "produces no very obvious effects," but some doctors regard it as possessed of nervine, antispasmodic and tonic properties.

Antispasmodic drug use was significantly rarer in the lidocaine group than in the saline group.