Buchu Sentence Examples

Buchu leaves contain a volatile oil, which is of a dark yellow colour, and deposits a form of camphor on exposure to air, a liquid hydro-carbon being the solvent of the camphor within the oil-glands.

The leaves of a closely allied plant, Empleurum serratulum, are employed as a substitute or adulterant for buchu.

The British Pharmacopoeia contains an infusion and tincture of buchu.

Until the advent of the modern synthetic products buchu was valued in diseases of the urinary tract, but its use is now practically obsolete.