10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASARABACCA»
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1
British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ...
The asarabacca (Asarum Eitropawm) has properties which are very similar to
those of the laburnum, the analogy being perfectly explained, according to
Chevallier and Lassaigne, by the presence in both plants of the same active
principle, ...
2
The PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies
Despite this less than encouraging introduction, Asarabacca may well prove to
be an effective remedy for bronchitis and bronchial asthma once additional tests
have been conducted. Researchers have found that it loosens phlegm, calms ...
3
The elements of materia medica and therapeutics
Common Asarabacca : — Description; Composition. 435 sp. char. — Leaves 2 on
each stem, kidney-shaped, obtuse [somewhat hairy] (Smith1). The branching root
-Jibres arise from an underground stem or rhizome. The aerial stems are ...
4
The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review Or ...
The asarabacca (Asarum Europamm) has properties which are very similar to
those of the laburnum, the analogy being perfectly explained, according to
Chevallier and Lassaigne, by the presence in both plants of the same active
principle, ...
5
Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants : Or, An Herball ...
Asarabacca. Have in my former Booke given you the knowledge of this
Asarabacca, but because I have not there expressed it so sufficiently, as it ought
to be, I have here amplified myselfe in some particulars. Now although there was
but one ...
6
A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts, and Collateral ...
As last, but using red ochre. SNUFF (Asarabacca). Syn. Cephalic Snufl',
Compound Powder of Asarabacca; Pulvis Asari Composilns,—Lat. Prep. 1. (Ph.
D. 1826.) Asarabacca leaves, 102.; lavender flowers, ] dr.; (both dried ;) mix and
powder ...
Arnold James Cooley, 1856
Asarabacca. — see Asarum Europaeum Asarabacca Camphor. ) A*TM*, f — see
Asaron A sarin. ) Asaron Merck. — Cryst. (280 (Asarin; Asarum Camphor;
Asarabacca Camphor). — Fr. root Asarum europaeum, L. (Asarabacca).— C12H„
03.
8
Handbook On Medicinal Herbs With Uses
Asarabacca was used in ancient Greece to treat kidney complaints and in wine-
making and in later times as a purgative and emetic. Because of its harmful
effects, however, it is now rarelyused in medicine. The common name
Asarabacca is a ...
9
A history of the materia medica: containing descriptions of ...
ASARABACCA. CHAPTER XI. ASARUM, Asarabacca. ASARABACCA is of the
Number of the small and slender Roots. We meet with it in Fragments of four or
five Inches in Length, and of the Thickness of a Crow Quill. These are not even or
...
John Hill, Thomas Longman ((Londres)), L. Hawes ((Londres)), 1751
10
A New Family Herbal: Or, Popular Account of the Natures and ...
Upon this its virtues depend ; and as this principle is volatile, we find accordingly
that asarabacca loses much of its activity by decoc. tion and long keeping.
MEDICAL USE. Given in substance, from half a drachm to a drachm, it evacuates
...
Robert John Thornton, 1810
