Medicinally sentence example
medicinally
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.