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It was used as a carminative, expectorant, stimulant, stomachic and tonic.— Find Me A Cure
Several other Angelica species have traditional medicinal uses The roots and rhizomes of Angelica pubescens are employed in Chinese herbal preparations for arthritis, rheumatism, headache, toothache, abscesses, and carminative activity (11. 1-10).— Find Me A Cure
The sweet fruit is carminative, tonic, aphrodisiac; lessens inflammation, stomatitis, piles, fever, weakness and paralysis; expels bad humours from the body.— Find Me A Cure
In perfumery, eugenol is used mainly at the lower end of the scale for soaps and detergents, while in pharmacy it acts as an anti-carminative and an anti-spasmodic.— Article Source
In this connection it is interesting to note that, according to one authority, the word carminative, a remedy which relieves pain "like a charm," is derived from the Latin carminare_, to use incantations Words of encouragement and a cheerful mien are good therapeutic agents; and the physician of Plato's day, we are told, sometimes took an orator along with him, in his visits to Grecian households, to persuade his patients to take medicines.— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

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