Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1907 — The New Opium Cure. [ARTICLE]

The New Opium Cure.

We put very little faith in the new specific for the opium habit, but its success in the region of Singapore equals that claimed here for Christian Science. As a result the importation of opium in the Malay States has been reduced from eighty to fifty Chests a month and thousands have been cured. The plant is a climber, botanioally called Combretum sondaicum. A decoction of the plant is put into two bottles, into one of whkih is added as much burnt opium as the patient is accustomed to use in a day." When he craves opium he Is given two tablespoonfuls from the latter bottle and as much from the other ‘bottle replaces it to fill the space. This is now related when called for, but no new opium is added. Tho patient is cured in from'ten to fifteen days. It looks like a plan for “tapering off,” with the assurance that the medicine does it. —The Independent