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  1. NLM Digital Collections - The encyclopedia of pure materia medica: a record of the positive effects of drugs upon the ... 
    Publication: New York : Boericke & Tafel, [c1874]-79
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/64240040RX10
    ... in seven and thirteen minutes) ; 18 (iu seventeen LUFFA—MELILOTUS. 577 minutes) ; 17 (in twenty-two minutes) ; ... 99^° (in seventy-eight and ninety-two minutes). LUFFA. Dried fruit of a Brazilian plant called Cabacinha. ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Emergency food plants and poisonous plants on the islands of the Pacific 
    Publication: Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/05710600R
    ... 29. Water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) 19 42 30. Luffa cylindrica, Luffa acutangula 20 43 31. Balsam vine (Momordica charantia) ... be eaten as greens I 20 Figure 30.—Luffa cylindrica, L. acutangula. ■ 20. Plants Which May Be ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Chronological history of plants : man's record of his own existence illustrated through their ... 
    Publication: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1879
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/60911110R
    ... Bombay “ toorai ” or “ gosalee ” (Graham), and species of Luffa in Sanscrit “ kosataki ” (J. F. Wats.) : the “kosataki” ... and called “kyet-hen-kha,” used in curries. Luffa acutangula of Tropical Eastern Asia. The ridged gourd ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Flora de Colombia 
    Publication: Bogotá : Papeleria, imprenta y litografia de Samper Matiz, 1897
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61570680R
    ... que puede emplearse en reemplazo de la esponjilla [ Luffa purgans ], que es un específico de estas epidemias; ... de Colombia, por Santiago Cortés. Mora de Colombia Luffa cylincirica Roem., vulgarmente estropajo, coladera, ser- villeta. L. ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - O que vendem os hervanarios da cidade de S. Paulo 
    Publication: S. Paulo : Serviço Sanitario do Estado de São Paulo, 1920
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/9409720
    ... tas”, “Cattú-Picina” dos índios de Malabar e “Luffa” dos arabes, “Esfregão”, etc. Nom. Sc.: Luffa cylindrica (L.) Rom., (Luffa aegyptica, MilL), da fam. das Cucurbitaceas. 63 P. ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Medical botany, or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine : with their ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1847
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61640180R
    ... 216 Momordica, 70, 216 Citrullus, . 216 Ecbalium, 218 Luffa, . CONTENTS. XI11 Bryonia, . 311 Asterales, Saxifragales, 71,312 ... a grain. (See Dunglison, Gen. Therap. i. 202.) Luffa.— Tournefort. Petals 5, inserted on the base of ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Notes on lectures by Eli Ives and William Tully: [New Haven (Volume 6) 
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/9802991X6
    ... be emmenagogue & styptic. This is worth enquiry into. Luffa operculata Allied to elaterium Nat. ord. cucurbiticaea Its ... be emmenagogue & styptic. This is worth enquiry into. Luffa operculata Allied to elaterium Nat. ord. cucurbiticaea Its ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1894
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101539506
    ... of litmus appears to PART II. Loco Plants.—Luffa. 1677 be, that potash or soda is added, ... them see Pharm. Rundschau, 1888. See also Monesia. LUFFA. Luffa JEgyptiaca. Vegetable Sponge. Wash-rag Sponge. Gourd ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army. Authors ... 
    Publication: Washington : G.P.O., 1880-1932
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8104689X25
    ... 12°. New York, W. Wood cf Co., 1899. Luffa echinata. Kirtikar (K. R.) A case of poisoning by devdangar (Luffa echinata). Tr.M. & Phys. Soc. Bombay (1887), 1888, ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Series 4, ... 
    Publication: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1936-1948
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/8104688X9
    ... Mary Hosp. Gaz., Lond., 1938, 44: 56-8. LUFFA. See also Cucurbitaceae. Grewal, K. S., & Kochhar, B. D. ... a acutangula; the chemical and pharmacological investigation of luffa seeds. Ind. J. M. Res., 1943, 31: 63- ...
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