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  1. ... bristles of the pods of Mucuna pruriens.] 1. Mucuna pruriens. Common Cow- hage, or Cow-itch; a leguminous plant, [a native of tropical America,] having its legumes covered with stinging hairs, called cowhage, or cow-itch, employed as an an- thelmintic. [ ...
  2. ... narrower, terete, and keeled in the valves. Description.—Cowhage or Cow-itch (siliqua hirsuta) is the legume of the Mucuna pruriens (legumen mucunce, stizolobii vel dolichos prurientis). It is ...
  3. ... filter. Dose, thirty to sixty drops. Guibourt. MUCUNA. COWHAGE. This is the bristles of the pods of Mucuna pruriens, a perennial, twining plant, native of the warmer ...
  4. ... its dose? — Gtts. iv.-viij. nignt and morning. Cowhage (Mucunal).—What is this the product of?—The mucuna pruriens, a climbing plant of the West Indies. (Fig. ...
  5. ... and muscular weakness with great retinal congestion. Mucuna.- Cowhage.-1The sharp, rigid hairs of the pods of Mucuna pruriens, an East India plant, were formerly used in ...
  6. ... Dol'ichos Pru'riens, Dol'ichos, Slizolo'bium, Mucuna prur'iens, Cowhage, Cowitch, Adsaria Pala. Order, Leguminosa?. (F.) Pois a gralter. The stiff hairs ofthe Dolichos Pods, called Dol- ichos Pubes, D. prurien'tis pubes, Dolichi Seta: Legdminum, Lanu'go Sitiqusc ...
  7. ... in three doses, an hour apart, before breakfast. Mucuna, U.S.- Cowhage.-The sharp, rigid hairs of the pods of Mu- cuna pruriens, an East India plant, were formerly used in ...
  8. ... water containing 0.75 grain of tannic acid. Mucuna, U.S.- Cowhage.-The sharp, rigid hairs of the pods of Mu- cuna pruriens, an East India plant, were formerly used' in ...
  9. ... them from the intestines on purely mechanical principles. MUCUNA.—The Spicules of the Pods. Synonyms.—Dolichos Pruriens, Pubes leguminis, Dub.; Ruhkratze, Ger.; Pois a gratter, Fr.; Dolico Scotante, Ital.; Cow-itch, Cowhage, Eng. Botany.—Sex. Syst.—Diadelphia Decandria. Nat. Ord. — ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The dispensatory of the United States of America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Grigg & Elliot, 1839
    ... a gargle in ulcerated sorethroat. W. DOLICHOS. U.S. Cowhage. " Dolichos pruriens. Leguminum pubes. The bristles of the pods." U.S. Off. Syn. MUCUNA. Mucuna pruriens. Leguminum pubes. Lond.; DOLICHI PRURIENTIS PUBES. ...
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