Its beneficial action is due to the happy combination of the emolient properties of pure gum-arabic and the tonic, astringent and analgesic properties of Coca.
"Pâte Mariani has a powerful tonic action on the larynx, and, like Vin Mariani, it is invaluable in cases of aphonia caused by feebleness or relaxation of the vocal cords. This property is of special advantage to singers and orators. Pâte Mariani is a very valuable substitute in granular catarrh of the throat and throat affections in general, for chlorate of potassium pastilles and the various lozenges containing opium, etc., the Pâte Mariani is more agreeable to the taste and produces anæsthetic and soothing effects." (Gazette des Hopitaux.)
PASTILLES MARIANI (COCA AND COCAINE).
The Pastilles Mariani are used in the same cases as the Pâte, from which they differ only by the addition of two milligrammes of Cocaine hydrochlorate to each pastille.
Their action is much more intense and more rapid than that of the plain Coca Lozenges.
The paroxysms of cough which are so frequent and so annoying to those who smoke tobacco to excess, are overcome as if by enchantment by the use of a few pastilles.
Dose—Four to eight daily. This amount, however, may be exceeded, at the discretion of the physicians.
THÉ MARIANI, OR CONCENTRATED EXTRACT OF COCA (TEA MARIANI).
As its name indicates, Mariani's concentrated extract of Coca, or Thé Mariani, contains within a small bulk all the active principles of the Coca leaf. This extract, prepared in special apparatuses which prevent all alteration and preserve all its properties and all its aroma, answers entirely in the various modes of using Coca and constitutes a most scrupulously exact preparation in dose, the most convenient and the most active that could be desired.