deobstruent

They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera.

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The authors of the U.S. Disp., however, refer to it as a plant of feeble power, allowing it to be refrigerant, diuretic, deobstruent, and somewhat astringent.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

It is administered in the West Indies as a substitute for ipecacuanha, and the juice of the plant is considered by the native doctors of India as a valuable remedy in ophthalmia, either dropped in the eye or rubbed on the tarsus; it is also considered purgative and deobstruent.

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Dr.B. is of the opinion that it owes its value to three qualities combined: an acrid, an emetic, and a deobstruent property -- the latter acting on the glandular system.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

A tonic and astringent, supposed by some to possess deobstruent virtues.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

The root and leaves, before the flowers are produced, are acrid and astringent, and are serviceable in passive hemorrhages, diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, and gonorrhoea, and are highly recommended as a deobstruent in obstructions of the spleen, and in diseases arising from torpor of the liver,

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs

This plant not only acts as a wholesome and nutritious vegetable, but also as a diuretic, aperient, and deobstruent.

The Book of Household Management

This plant not only acts as a wholesome and nutritious vegetable, but also as a diuretic, aperient, and deobstruent.

The Book of Household Management

Had taken various deobstruent and diuretic medicines to little purpose.

An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases