Let's start by specifying that the news is nicely written in a text called "University Medical Anniversaries, Volumes 221-222". It is more a finding than a pharmacological advice and, for the diseases in question, it is strongly suggested to refer to a doctor.
Ramazzini, Mérat, Jourdan, Pollini, Cadet etc., all great experts in the pharmacopoeia of the 18th and 19th centuries (of Italian and French nationality), regularly used various components of the walnut tree to treat certain disorders. In particular, it seems that the juice of walnut leaves (mixed with appio and trifolium fibrino from the beginning, and then also with extract of walnut leaves, angelica, cardosanto, saponaria and powdered jungle) was a formidable ingredient for the synthesis of certain pills or syrups or teas with anti-venereal action; indeed, it seems that Lorry and Costilhes used large quantities in the customary therapy of the "female syphilicomium of St. Lazarus of Paris" (a clinic specialized in the treatment of syphilis).
Obviously, again based on what is mentioned in the text, the properties of the walnut do not stop there. It is also one of the main drugs used as a tonic, digestive, anti-heretic, sudorific, vesicatory and in the treatment of scrofula or scrofula, caused (today we know) by tuberculosis mycobacterium.
In this regard, it is very curious to note that, on the other side of the planet compared to central Europe (more precisely in Mexico), walnut was used from ancient times in traditional medicine to treat tuberculosis, a respiratory pathology caused by the same microorganism responsible for tuberculosis.
Will it be a coincidence?
