Cause vomiting, and then give freely of whites of eggs and water, demulcent drinks, soothing clysters, lotions, fomentations.
Demulcent drinks, baths, and counter-irritants over the stomach to relieve spasms.
From their demulcent and emollient properties, the leaves and immature fruit have long been in repute in the East for the preparation of poultices and fomentations.
Gum tragacanth is used in calico-printing as a thickener of colours and mordants; in medicine as a demulcent and vehicle for insoluble powders, and as an excipient in pills; and for setting and mending beetles and other insect specimens.
They act as a demulcent in catarrh and pleurisy, being also a favourite food of Goldfinches.
For thrush and for excoriations within the mouth and upper throat, one drachm of the seeds should [459] be boiled in eight fluid ounces of water until it acquires a proper demulcent mucilaginous consistence.
They were taken as food by the ancient Greeks and Romans, whilst Hippocrates knew the demulcent properties of linseed.
It is flavoured with orange flowers, and acts as a demulcent with slightly stimulating effects.
This is demulcent to the chest, or to the urinary passages, being also slightly laxative.
The plant contains "ononin," a chemical glucoside, which is demulcent to the urinary organs.
The seeds contain abundantly a demulcent oil, whilst the petals furnish a glucoside which is colourless unless treated with alkalies, when it becomes of a golden yellow.
It promotes perspiration, and isdemulcent to the chest.
The mucilage is good for chest disorders, bowels, kidneys and for inflammation after poisoning, as a bland demulcent drink.
Locally, demulcent mouth-washes are called for, containing astringents, detergents, or antiseptics.
Locally, the free use of demulcent drinks, and of pellets of ice when cold is agreeable, will relieve the pain in the throat and sometimes repress excessive secretion.
All unnecessary efforts at deglutition should be avoided, and anodyne medicaments (opium, hyoscyamus, belladonna) should be added to the demulcent food or beverages.
Demulcent and astringent lotions may be applied by douche, spray, or gargle.
Demulcent washes of elm, sassafras-pith, or flaxseed are often more soothing than simple water.
The infusion forms an excellent demulcent drink in catarrhs.
In diabetes; and sweetened with sugar, as a demulcent and laxative in cough and sore throat.
Demulcent and laxative; used as a purge for infants, and by ladies to perfume the breath.
A piece the size of a small filbert, frequently; as a pectoral and demulcent in coughs, hoarseness, &c.
The fruit of this plant (hemp seed) is demulcent and oleaginous.
It is a demulcent bitter, and is slightly stomachic and tonic.
An allied species, the Panax quinquefolium, is sold in America, less for the sake of its very feeble demulcent properties, than to supply the demand of those who have acquired a taste for it.
Used in demulcent infusions, also when crushed or ground in poultices.
The free use of demulcent drinks, milk, and ice will be very grateful to the patient's feelings.
Vinegar and water is perhaps the best antidote, and that most readily procurable; its administration may be followed up by freely allowing acidulated demulcent drinks, orange juice, &c.
Demulcent drinks should be freely given subsequently, with soothing applications to the bowels.
As regards the treatment, it is only necessary to administer draughts containing magnesia or its carbonate, followed by mucilaginous or demulcent drinks.
A decoction commonly known as mucilage of quince seed is much used as a demulcent in certain diseases--in erysipelas, inflammatory conditions of the eyes and in other affections where mucilaginous applications are found useful.
The Mohammedans of India value the seeds very highly as a restorative and demulcent tonic.
Dispensatory: “Liverwort is a very mild demulcenttonic and astringent, supposed by some to possess diuretic and deobstruent virtues.
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