The dose of 100 grams of the seeds mentioned above is very small, if the Pepo-resin represents the entire active principle, for 100 grams of the seeds would only contain about 40 centigrams.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Scarus Pepo, W. Benn.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent