MMof HMN ANTIPSORIC Rx - MEZ. (1)

[Farbod Rahnamai]

MEZEREUM or DAPHNE MEZEREUM or SPURGE OLIVE:
It is a plant. HMN in CD. said about this remedy:
In early spring, when the shrub is about to bloom, its bark is gathered. Originally the juice of the fresh green bark was pressed out and preserved, mixed with equal part of alcohol, and raised to homoeopathic dynamization by shaking. This juice, when it touches the skin, causes a long continued, very painful burning. But since the medicinal virtue of this bark does not consist in its volatile parts, it will be better to dry it and powder it, and then to triturate it with 100 parts os sugar of milk, and then to potentize it like the other dry medicinal substances, as directed in the first part of this work.
Dr. Stapf, the medical councilor and baronet has given in No. 2 of the forth volume of the Archive a summary view of the chief properties of this very active drug.
This medicine has so far proved itself useful in diseases which were accompanied by the following symptoms:
Humid itching eruption on the head and behind the ears; inflamation of the eyes; chronic leucorrhea; shortening of a lower limb; nightly itching of the body.
Question: Was this remedy used in old school of medicine? If yes, when and for wich purpose?

Thanks
Farbod Rahnama
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]