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Scammony

noun

Tropical American morning glory. Synonym: Ipomoea orizabensis.

Resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia.

Twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin. Synonym: Convolvulus scammonia.

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"Scammony" Quotes from Famous Books

... probably include the tape worm or taenia lata. The treatment of these parasites consists generally in the use of aromatic, bitter or acid mixtures, among which gentian, serpentaria, tithymal and cucumis agrestis are especially commended for lumbrici, and enemata of wormwood, lupinus, scammony, salt, aloes, etc., ...

— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Words linked to "Scammony" : morning glory, convolvulus, Ipomoea orizabensis, Convolvulus scammonia, natural resin