This Acacia is one of the sacred trees of India, and yields an astringent or preservative substance.
An odoriferous water, highly prized, is distilled from the flowers, and the astringent bark of the tree is used medicinally.
In olden times, it was believed that Thyme renewed the spirits of both man and beast; and the old herbalists recommended it is a powerful aid in melancholic and splenetic diseases.
To smell of Thyme" was, therefore, a commendation bestowed on those writers who had mastered the Attic style.
In Lower Germany, the Honeysuckle is called Albranke, the witch snare.
Pereira, is applied to various astringent extracts imported from India and the neighbouring countries.
The plants of the mangrove tribe, Rhizophora Mangle, and other allied species, have frequently an astringent bark, which is in many cases used for tanning and dyeing black.
This process furnishes Kassu, or most astringent terra japonica, which is black and mixed with paddy criu, husks, and other impurities.
Pterocarpus marsupium furnishes about Tellicherry the concrete exudation called kino, a powerful astringentused for tanning.
The sea-side grape (Coccolaba uvifera) yields an astringent substance, known as Jamaica kino.
The catechu obtained from this tree in Pegu, is celebrated throughout India, and fetches £4 to £5 more per ton than gambier and other astringent extracts.
The bitter astringent bark and the galls of several of the Tamarisk tribe are also well suited for the purpose.
In the instructions given by the Admiralty to Sir James Boss, when proceeding on his Antarctic Expedition, his attention was particularly called to the astringent substances adapted for tanning, and to the various extracts of barks, &c.
Cloves contain a volatile oil, associated with resinous, gummy, and astringent matter, which is yielded in larger proportion than by any other plant.
It is less astringent than oak bark, and is more generally useful for stoppers of bottles and bungs for casks.
Numerous species of this tribe are found abundant in New South Wales and the Cape Colony, and these, particularly the wattle bark of Australia, are in common use for tanning, from their astringent properties.
The red astringent gum obtained from Butea frondosa, a middling size tree, common in Bengal and the mountainous parts of India, is used by the natives for tanning.
When of good quality, catechu is more powerful as an astringent than kino.
If the paralysis be partial, it is better to give nux vomica or Ignatia amara by the mouth, in hopes of getting some beneficial astringent influence on the walls of the oesophagus.
If there are cases where the bile is passed in quantity, it is especially called for, as it is the only astringent which diminishes the flow of bile.
The rest, the moderate diet, and even the salicylate of sodium, favor its removal, but the frequent employment of mild astringent injections should not be omitted.
Castor oil, rhubarb, or magnesia may be given, followed, if need be, by an astringent if diarrhoea should occur.
After the motion the protruded part should be well washed in cold water, and afterward with some astringent solution of oak-bark, matico, or a weak solution of carbolic acid applied with a soft sponge.
Clark speaks favorably of the extract of nux vomica and astringent remedies.
In this condition the treatment should include the use of anodyne and astringent lotions, suppositories or enemata, and the internal administration of Ward's paste--i.
These astringent rectal injections offer promise of cure in many obstinate cases where the colon is chiefly the seat of disease.
Demulcent and astringent lotions may be applied by douche, spray, or gargle.
The astringentlags behind, and in cases of some duration and severity supplements the work of the active partner.
Cold-water rectal irrigation has a sedative and astringent influence, and when properly used is of great advantage to both children and adults.
An emollient gargle was given and, soon after, astringent applications; but in vain.
This douche should be made astringent by adding to a pint of water a quarter ounce of alum or tannin.
The hot astringent injections tone up the lower supports of the uterus, and cleanse the passage.
Nim is also praised by some of the Allopathic physicians for its tonic, antiseptic, astringent and anti-periodic properties.
This made a beautiful dark-green tincture, having an aromatic odor and slightly astringent taste.
The superior wisdom of later physicians has pronounced it to have no such power, because it contains no astringent principle!
I ascribed this to the astringent matter of the acorns, and thinking the really curative principle thereof would most likely be volatile I caused the tincture to be distilled.
His paper on astringent vegetable substances, and on their operation in tanning leather.
It was entitled "An Account of some Experiments and Observations on the constituent parts of certain astringent Vegetables, and on their operation in Tanning.
The vegetable principles that had been regarded as more usually present in astringent infusions, are tannin, gallic acid, and extractive matter.
The assistant continues the compression till hæmorrhage ceases, adding fresh supplies of the astringent powders; a bandage is added and the patient left to himself.
To this we may add the effect of repeated miscarriages, application of astringent washes, irregular menstruation, etc.
Pessaries were made by rolling lint or wool into an oblong shape, and were medicated to be emollient, astringent or purgative in their local action.
It is an astringent shrub of gently cooling powers.
Over this the monarch spread the sacred clay, and on it laid the bricks, and over them a coating of astringent cement, above this a layer of sand-stones, and on all a plate of iron.
The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious.
A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste.
A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal.
In camp, it is a very general custom for every guest’s servant to supply his master with water of his own purifying; which is effected either by means of alum, or of some other astringent producing a similar effect.
Good fresh lees, from rather astringent wines are also an excellent remedy when the wine becomes flat, as before described.
If a dark colored, astringent wine is desired, we can ferment on the husks, and leave it on the lees a longer period.
The rate of hydrolysis also increases with temperature: and as these compounds are of an astringent or bitter nature, the solution obtained upon boiling coffee is naturally possessed of a flavor unpleasant to the palate of the connoisseur.
Greatest efficiency, when bags are used, is obtained by repouring until all of the liquid has passed twice through the coffee; further repouring extracts too much of the astringenthydrolysis products.
The underground woody stem is astringent and yields a yellow dye.
It has a sweetastringent taste, very soluble in water, but scarcely soluble in alcohol.
Dioscorides refers to it as agallochon, a wood brought from Arabia or India, which was odoriferous but with an astringent and bitter taste.
Tannin, the astringent element in tea, is bad for delicate stomachs and seems to ruin appetite.
But for those wines which have no sea-water, and which are of a more astringent nature, especially for the Chian and Lesbian wine, the purest water is the most suitable.
This Tæniotic wine, in addition to being sweet, has something aromatic in it, of a slightly astringent character.
He (as Icesius tells us) is a fish of very exciting and astringent properties, and more nutritious than the melanurus, or blacktail.
While Mnesitheus says that they fill the body with fat, and are very free from all hindrances to the digestion; and, moreover, that they are diuretic, and that they are free from all astringent tendencies.
The former relates also, that Indicum belonged to the astringent medicines; that it was used for ulcers and inflammations, and that it cleansed and healed wounds.
Everybody knows their astringent action, which makes them give rise to such obstinate constipation that there are patients in whom it is often necessary to suspend their use.
Its beneficial action is due to the happy combination of the emolient properties of pure gum-arabic and the tonic, astringent and analgesic properties of Coca.
This latter circumstance renders it particularly eligible in cases of diarrhoea, as it evacuates the offending matter before it operates as an astringent upon the bowels.
The wood of some species is hard and durable, and the astringent bark is used in tanning.
Its thick rind yields a very astringent juice, rich in tannin, and containing a gamboge-like resin.
Cold partial bath, and astringent medicines frequently taken, only recal the mind to the disease, or to the delinquency; and thence increase the imaginary effects and the real cause, if such exists.
Intestinal absorption is increased by astringent vegetables, as rhubarb, galls; and by earthy salts, as alum; and by argillaceous and calcareous earth.
Externally bitter astringent vegetables, earthy and metallic salts, and bandages, promote the absorption of the parts on which they are applied.
Astringent fomentations; as an infusion of oak-bark, or a slight solution of alum.
