A genus of plants belonging to the nightshade order, or 'Atropaceae,' The species Datura Stramonium is an important medicinal plant, the leaves and seeds being officinal in B.
The seed or fruit of the Elettaria Cardamomum forms the officinal cardamom.
Baccae copaiferae factitiae areofficinal in the Ph.
The rhizome, which is the officinal part, though yellow in the recent root, becomes of a dark yellowish-brown by age.
The interior bark of the Ulmus campestris, or common small-leaved elm (Ulmi cortex), is officinalin B.
As remedial agents, the officinal confections possess little value, and are chiefly used as vehicles for the administration of more active medicines.
Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.
Note: The officinal skink (Scincus officinalis) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa.
Polemonium cæruleum) with blue or white flowers, and leaves resembling those of the officinal valerian.
The root is the officinal pellitory, and is used as an irritant and sialogogue.
An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp.
Note: This term is often interchanged with official, but in strict use officinal drugs are not necessarily official.
Several are used as tonics, especially the bitter roots of Gentiana lutea, the officinal gentian of the pharmacopoeias.
The dose of the authorised officinal juice is from one to two teaspoonfuls, and from five to twenty grains of the prepared extract.
An officinal tincture (Tinctura anthemidis) is made from the flowers of the true Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) with rectified spirit of wine.
Syrup of tar is an officinal medicine in the United States of America for chronic bronchitis, and winter cough.
An officinal tincture is made from the rhizome of Valerian with spirit of wine, of which from one to two teaspoonfuls may be given for a dose, with a little water.
Across the Atlantic an officinal tincture is made from the Tomato for curative purposes by treating the apples, and the bruised fresh plant with alcohol, and letting this stand for eight days before it is filtered and strained.
The officinal rhubarb is the root of an undetermined species.
The yellow gentian root (Gentiana lutea) is the officinal species, and a native of the Alps of Austria and Switzerland.
The officinal part is the bark, which comes off from the rhizomes.
The leaves are the officinal part, and their active properties depend on a peculiar, oily-like alkaloid, called Nicotin.
The officinalroot differs in appearance, according to the country from which it is brought.
The fruit of this species constitutes the true, small, officinal Malabar cardamoms.
The roots, which are the officinal part, are contorted, knotty and annulated, and about the thickness of a goose quill.
Pharmacopoeia while officinal means that it is regularly kept for sale in drug stores.
Joe-Pye is officinal but not official among white men.
Although other species of Cornus are officinal with white men, there is no record of the use of this species.
A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.
It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
Both plants contain in the bark of their roots the same red dye as the officinal roots of the Alcanna tinctoria.
The root is quite the same as that of the officinal Radix senegæ.
The parasiticide usually relied on is the officinal sulphur ointment of the United States pharmacopoeia.
The pubic louse may be exterminated by the measures recommended for the head louse, or by the use of officinal mercurial ointment.
The leaves made into a tincture or infusion are now an officinal drug, valued in catarrh of the throat or stomach.
It has also been adopted among physicians as an officinal drug.
A dangerous compound of the latter sort introduced during the first epidemic of cholera in this country became officinal under the name of liniment of cantharides.
Our officinal insect is the Cantharis vesicatoria; and since the principal supply is from Spain, we call them commonly Spanish-flies.
I know of nothing new here except an essay on the natural history of Cayenne, and a catalogue of officinal plants.
Liliaceae, with radical leaves, and flowers in terminal racemes or loose corymbs--the officinal Squill is diuretic and expectorant.
Mexican plant, whose seeds yield an officinal alkaloid, veratrine, employed chiefly in acute febrile diseases in strong healthy persons.
The officinal mistura cretae is perhaps more generally used for children than any other remedy.
As the officinal ointment of the red iodide of mercury, rubbed in over the splenic region, does so much good in chronic enlargement of the spleen, it is probable that it will prove effective in this form of enlargement of the liver.
The officinal aconite is the Aconitum napellus--monkshood or wolfsbane--a very common garden plant in this country, and one cultivated for medicinal purposes.
The officinal compound pill of subchloride of mercury (Pilula hydrargyri subchloridi composita) contains 1 grain (.
The officinal preparation is the "spiritus ammoniae aromaticus," or aromatic spirit of ammonia.
Tincture of digitalis isofficinal in our own and all the Continental pharmacop[oe]ias, and an ethereal tincture is used in France and Germany.
There used to be a tincture officinal in our pharmacop[oe]ia; the root of H.
The Sulphide of Mercury=, known in commerce under the name of Ethiops mineral, is officinal in France, the Netherlands, and Germany.
The only officinal preparation in the British pharmacop[oe]ia is a "croton oil liniment," containing one part of croton oil to seven of equal parts of oil of cajuput and rectified spirit.
The wine of colchicum, officinal in nearly all the pharmacop[oe]ias, is made with very different proportions of seeds or bulbs.
Aconite extract=, the juice of the leaves evaporated; officinalin most of the pharmacop[oe]ias.
An extract of colchicum is officinal in Britain and France; and an acetic extract in Britain.
The only preparations officinal in this country are a spirituous extract (Extractum physostigmatis), used principally for external application, the dose of which is not more than 18.
The preparations officinal in the British Pharmacop[oe]ia are camphor water--water saturated with camphor, containing about one part per thousand.
Boille claims for his neutral hydrobromate of quinine its much readier solubility over the officinal sulphate, as well as its superior richness in quinine.
Mulberry juice (mori succus) is officinal in the Ph.
From the officinal nutmeg or kernel of the fruit of Myristica moschata.
The mere admixture of nitric or hyponitrous ether with alcohol does not afford an officinal SPIR.
The "inspissated juice" of Lactuca virosa, or strong-scented wild lettuce, is also officinal in the 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.
This having been effected, and the solution entirely cooled, 60 drops of officinal sulphuric ether, with 20 drops of liquor of ammonia, must be added, and the whole well shaken while the top is closed by the thumb.
The officinalleech of the Pharmacop[oe]ias is the Sanguisuga medicinalis (Hirudo medicinalis--Cuv.
Among the numerous formulæ for officinal mummies, we shall content ourselves with citing here that of Crollius.
They are all inodorous, poisonous in moderate quantities, and are not officinal in any Pharmacopœia.
The plan of proceeding is to expose the vein, and then to pierce its coats with the sharp point of a hypodermic syringe containing the officinal liquor ammoniae--sp.
Garrod's "Materia Medica" shows the proportions in which some of the more important drugs of the "Pharmacopoeia" are contained in the Officinal Preparations.
An Illustration of the Genus, Comprising Descriptions of all the Officinal Peruvian Barks, including several new species.
Named from the country Liguria, where the officinal Lovage of the gardens abounds.
A well-known officinal anthelmintic, and a showy plant.
The long horizontal aromatic roots a substitute for officinal Sarsaparilla.
The officinal solution of Arsenite of Potash was introduced into notice by Dr.
But the officinal acid is an aqueous solution, containing only 2 per cent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "officinal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
