Such are the resins of Scammony, Jalap, and Gamboge, and the principles of Colocynth and Elaterium.
Colocynth and Elaterium have also been proved to act specifically.
The commercial colocynth consists of the peeled and dried fruits.
The gall-bladder is also stimulated, and the biliary function of the liver, so that colocynth is both an excretory and a secretory cholagogue.
In minute doses colocynthacts simply as a bitter, but is never given for this purpose.
The fruit is round, and about the size of an orange; it has a thick yellowish rind, and a light, spongy and very bitter pulp, which yields the colocynth of druggists.
This is by far the best preparation, the hyoscyamus being added to prevent the pain and griping which is attendant on the use of colocynth alone.
Compound extract of colocynth is often adulterated with acrid cathartics to make up for the deficiency or inferiority of its proper ingredients, and foreign matter often becomes mixed with it by the use of impure scammony.
The compound extract of colocynthand the simple and compound extracts of sarsaparilla are in greater demand in the wholesale trade, and are sold in larger quantities at a time, than all the other medicinal extracts put together.
This is intended as a substitute for the compound extract of colocynth of the Ph.
Colocynth pulp, scammony, and Castile soap, of each (in powder) 1 oz.
The following formula produces a pill precisely similar to this nostrum:--Take of compound extract of colocynth (Ph.
Compound colocynth pill is a cheap and excellent cathartic, more powerful than the other officinal aloetic pills, and well adapted to cases of habitual costiveness.
A factitious article is also met with in trade, made by grinding bryony root with about twice its weight of colocynth seeds and a very small quantity of gamboge.
The same as the colocynth and henbane pill of the Ph.
Compound colocynth pill and soap of jalap, equal parts; either with or without a few drops of some aromatic essential oil.
Compound extract of colocynth and mercurial pill, of each 1/2 dr.
In colicky conditions of the bowels two- or three-drop doses of tincture of colocynth sometimes act wonderfully well.
The use of quinia with small doses of colocynth after the colchicum has been discontinued helps to re-establish the strength and regulate the digestive functions.
The colocynth is the gourd referred to in 2 Kings 4.
Apricot oil in the Himalayas, sunflower oil, oil of cucumber-seed for cooking and lamps, oil of colocynth seed, a lamp oil.
When from the poet's plinth The amorous colocynth Yearns for the aloe, faint with rapturous thrills, How can he hymn their throes Knowing, as well he knows, That they are only uncompounded pills?
Or that in all her works Something poetic lurks, Even in colocynth and calomel?
Colocynth Colocynth is a powerful drastic cathartic, and should never be given alone, unless ordered by a medical man, as its action is too violent for some constitutions.
Take of powdered jalap and compound extract of colocynth each four grains, of calomel two grains, mix as usual, and divide into two pills.
One only herb appeared at our feet to give some appearance of variety and life; it was the bitter and poisonous colocynth of the desert.
Houghton agree that Josephus referred to the fruit of the colocynth (citrullus colocynthis) which resembles an orange in appearance, and when dry will burst on pressure with a crashing noise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colocynth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
