Medicinally Sentence Examples

There are mines of silver, copper, lignite and salt, and many hot springs, including some of great repute medicinally.

The bright red ovoid berries are cathartic, the whole plant is acrid and poisonous, and the bark is used medicinally.

Tibet produces a large number of medicinal plants much prized by the medical profession in China and Mongolia, among others the Cordyceps sinensis, the Coptis teeta, Wall., and Pickorhiza kuwoa, Royle, &c. Rhubarb is also found in great quantities in eastern Tibet and Amdo; it is largely exported for European use, but does not appear to be used medicinally in the country.

Mineral waters are used medicinally at Ciechocinek in Plock and Nalgczow in Lublin.

It has an agreeable odour, and has been used medicinally.

Acetone has been employed medicinally in cases of dyspnoea.

Medicinally, gallic acid has been, and is still, largely used as an astringent, styptic and haemostatic. Gallic acid, however, does not coagulate albumen and therefore possesses no local astringent action.

When given medicinally preparations of iron have an astringent taste, and the teeth and tongue are blackened owing to the formation of sulphide of iron.

The first is based on the fact that the iron in the haemoglobin of the blood must be derived from the food, therefore iron medicinally administered is absorbed.

It is medicinally superior to gum acacia, as it does not undergo acetous fermentation.

Medicinally, it was used to treat everything from toothaches to stomach aches by the Native Americans and then later by the first settlers.

It has, in fact, been used medicinally for more than 2000 years.

Other cultures have used the pineapple medicinally for everything from inducing childbirth to treating ailments.

Slippery Elm Bark - Slippery elm bark has been used medicinally primarily for its mucilage properties.

It is used medicinally as a local anesthetic but is not available for self-administration.

Hyphear is useful for fattening cattle if they are hardy enough to withstand the purgative effect it produces at first; viscum is medicinally of value as an emollient, and in cases of tumour, ulcers and the like.

Pyrogallol has antiseptic properties and is employed medicinally in the treatment of psoriasis.

It is really not extraordinary that Isaac Hollandus was able to indicate the method of the preparation of the " philosopher's stone " from " adamic " or " virgin " earth, and its action when medicinally employed; that in the writings assigned to Roger Bacon, Raimon Lull, Basil Valentine and others are to be found the exact quantities of it to be used in transmutation; and that George Ripley, in the 15th century, had grounds for regarding its action as similar to that of a ferment.

The itch-insect (Sarcoptes scabiei) is a well-known human parasite, so minute that it was not discovered until the end of the 18th century, and " the itch " was treated medicinally as a rash.

Several members of the order are used medicinally for the strong purging properties of the milky juice (latex) which they contain; scammony is the dried latex from the underground stem of Convolvulus Scarnmonia, a native of the Levant, while jalap is the product of the tubercles of Exogonium Purga, a native of Mexico.

The leaves and husk of the fruit are resinous and astringent, and are sometimes used medicinally as well as for dyeing purposes.

The latter was much used by the Greeks for making images; and its empyreumatic oil, Huile de Cade, is used medicinally for skin-diseases.