A little compound tincture of gentian and water may be used in place of the compound infusion of the British Pharmacopeia.
This preparation consists of Cascara Sagrada, Dandelion, Gentian Root, with Licorice in Pure Red Wine as a base, with Aromatics.
The bitters, of which gentian is a type, were once credited with many therapeutic virtues which time has shown they do not possess.
DaCosta has suggested giving one drop {655} of the fluid extract of belladonna with compound tincture of gentian or cinchona three times daily after meals.
Powell and Copeland say that they have employed with decided advantage a purgative consisting of the compound infusion of gentian and infusion of senna, to which were added ten or twenty minims of liquor potassae.
Defn: A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Gentianaceæ) of which the gentian is the type.
Several are used as tonics, especially the bitter roots of Gentiana lutea, the officinal gentian of the pharmacopoeias.
The medicinal properties of the Gentian are obtained from the root, which, after being powdered, yields its remedial qualities to water and alcohol.
The old herbalists called the Gentian Baldmoyne, or Feldwode.
One of the most attractive and familiar of the Gentians is the fringed or blue Gentian (Gentiana crinita).
The closed Gentian has leaves with rough edges and a narrow base.
Hence, when Medea besought Tellus to evolve a plant which would give the element of renewed youth to the mixture in her caldron, the goddess produced the Gentian or Feldewode, which restored to the aged Aeson the freshness and vigor of youth.
Both the fringed and the blue Gentian bloom during the autumn months and are among the most attractive forms that mark the close of the floral season.
A much more common form, found growing in fields and woodlands, is the closed Gentian (Gentiana Andrewsii).
The closed gentian keeps its darkly impenetrable blue beside the pink-tipped companion stalks of the snake's-head.
Sometimes a gentian stands erect among dead grasses--a slim senora with a fringed mantilla swirled close about her shoulders in the chilly dusk.
Latea is the Gentian of commerce, and is used as a tonic.
Modern physicians find one species ofGentian soporific and use it to procure sleep for the weary sufferer.
Some time before the first mitosis, the spireme splits and the pairs of granules embedded in linin are wonderfully distinct, both in iron-haematoxylin and safranin-gentian preparations (fig.
In safranin-gentian preparations it stains, not like a plasmosome, but red like the heterochromosomes, while the spireme is violet.
Sections of nuclei of oocytes, showing one or more of these heterochromosomes, from safranin-gentian preparations.
Figure 244, from a safranin-gentian preparation, shows both the odd chromosome and the m-chromosomes.
Hermann's safranin-gentian method was especially effective with this material.
Figure 246 is a similar stage from a safranin-gentian preparation.
The following mixture may be given: bicarbonate of soda, sulfate of soda and common salt, eight ounces of each, and powderedgentian and sulfate of iron, four ounces of each.
The following mixture may be used: powdered gentian and powdered ginger, eight ounces of each, Glauber's salts four ounces, and sulfate of iron two ounces.
Salicylate of soda two ounces, fluid extract of gentianone ounce, and sufficient water to make an eight-ounce mixture may be given internally three times daily after feeding.
The following formula is useful as a digestive tonic: Sodium bicarbonate and sodium sulfate, one pound of each, powdered gentian one-half pound, and oil meal five pounds.
Translated from Greek into English byGentian Hervet.
This has been well shown by Churchman in his work onGentian Violet.
It is also of great value in staining Gram-positive bacteria in tissues, but the sections should be stained about five minutes in the anilin gentian violet and be left about two minutes in the Gram's solution.
Saturated alcoholic solution of gentian violet 1 part Distilled water 20 parts Mix well and filter.
It has been ascertained that some bacteria contain a substance, possibly a protein, which forms a compound with gentian violet and iodine, which compound is insoluble in alcohol, and other bacteria do not contain this substance.
The preparation is covered with a freshly prepared saturated solution of gentian violet in formalin and this allowed to stain for 30 seconds.
Saturated alcoholic solution of gentian violet 1 part Anilin water (see below) 10 parts Mix well and filter.
The flowers keep in good form for two or three weeks, and otherwise this rigid bright-foliaged Gentian proves very ornamental.
A fat loam and a moist situation will suit this Gentian to perfection, and it may be planted with other strong herbaceous things in the borders, where it should be allowed to grow to large specimens.
By many this Gentian is considered difficult to grow, but if a proper beginning is made it proves to be of the easiest management.
The most attractive features, when in flower, of this dwarf Gentian are its immensely large blooms and neat shining green foliage (see Fig.
A course of tonics (gentian root 2 drams, sulphate of iron 2 drams, daily) will do much to fortify the system and counteract further excessive effusion.
Powdered gentian root (3 drams daily) will also serve to restore the tone of the stomach and system at large.
This consists in clearing out the bowels by 5 drams Barbados aloes, or 1 pound Glauber's salt, and follow the operation of these by daily doses of one-half ounce powdered gentian and 1 ounce Glauber's salt.
The use of a half ounce of gentian on the feed night and morning for a week has been recommended, but the use of rectal enemas will give more prompt and perhaps more certain results.
In debilitated horses combine the nux vomica with one-half ounce powdered gentian root.
The aromatics and bitter tonics are useful; gentian and tea in warm decoction form a useful menstruum for other remedies.
Tonics like sulphate or phosphate of iron (2 drams morning and evening) and powdered gentian or Peruvian bark (4 drams) help greatly by bracing the system and hastening repair.
During recovery a course of bitter tonics (nux vomica 1 scruple, ground gentian root 4 drams) should be given.
Domestic happiness," sweet Gentian sings, "Belongs to laborers, and not to kings.
Queen of a land more wondrous than our own Sweet Gentian reigns, and sways the realm alone.
Sleep, little angel, Gentian marks thy worth, A sleeping child, the sweetest thing on earth.
And now she moves, sweet Gentian enters in, And she is pure again and free from sin.
Earth is no more, the river crossed is deep, Man dies each time his head is bowed in sleep, And Gentian paints the sphere to suit her mind Capricious as the sex of womankind.
She liked Tiedeman's flat: the big outer room, curtained with thick gentian blue and thin violet.
On the Swiss mountains these beautiful little plants are very abundant; and the splendid blue colour of masses of gentian in flower is a sight which, when once seen, can never be forgotten.
An aqueous or alcoholic solution ofgentian violet or methyl violet is one of the best.
For more careful examination they may be crushed in a mixture of water and acetic acid, to which is added a little gentian violet.
The best stain for acetic acid preparations is, perhaps, gentian violet.
But this feeling, unknown to him before, broke out in his gentian work.
He renewed his Gentian studies also, with unflagging ardour.
Why, there is hardly a species of gentianwhich is not torn up by the roots for the making of schnapps.
In the late autumn they collect their bundles of dried gentian roots, which they carry to the distilling vats, where the Enzian, so dear to the Tyroler, is made.
But in Damory Court would be cheerful warmth and friendly noises, with a loved woman standing before the crackling fireplace whose mottoed "I clinge" was for him written in her fringed and gentian eyes.
Failing to find a gentian in his search over safe ground, he must have caught sight of a late blossom growing in some cranny of the rock face below, and, recklessly regardless of the danger, he had climbed down to secure it.
Then she caught sight of a vivid glint of blue--a single gentian bloom still tightly clasped in the boy's hand, and quite suddenly she began to cry, the tears running unchecked down her face.
When the blindgentian speaks out like that the emphasis must be multiplied a hundred fold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
