Taken hot like tea with milk and sugar, or with a slice of lemon, it forms a refreshing beverage. In tonsillitis it may be used warm as a gargle.
Pastillus Cocæ Extracti, Coca Pastils.—2½ grains of the extract in each.
Dose.—One every two or three hours.
Coca pastils are good; cocaine cured case of asthma of 15 years’ standing; recommended for hay fever, spasmodic asthma, and post-nasal catarrh.—M.P.C. ii./85,320.
Vinum Cocæ.—About 1 in 8 of Sherry.
Dose.—One to two tablespoonfuls, diluted with wine or water.
This is strongly medicated, it must contain half a grain of alkaloid in the ounce, else it cannot be sold without a license.
Coca Wine in a more palatable and popular form, about 1 in 20 or 30 of a sweet red wine, is also prepared, and in doses of a wineglassful it forms an agreeable, exhilarating beverage.
Wine of Coca checks vomiting of irritable stomach.—L. ii./85,1078.