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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Medical and botanical dictionary : giving a definition of the terms used in the various ... 
    Publication: New York : W. Beach, [1847]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/26410250R
    ... prickle at the end of an obtuse leaf. MUCUNA PRURIENS. Common cowhage or cowitch; a leguminous plant, having its legumes ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Manual of materia medica & therapeutics : being an abridgement of the late Dr. Pereira's ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea, 1866
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61741140R
    ... greenish-white. Habitat.—West Indies. Fig. 170. Mucuna pruriens. Mucuna, Cowhage. Secondary List, IT. S. P. The hairs of the pods of Mucuna pruriens. The legume of the Mucuna pruriens is of ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Gunn's new family physician, or, Home book of health : forming a complete household guide, ... 
    Publication: Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1867
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0140313
    ... but little seems, as yet, to be known. Cowhage—(Mucuna Pruriens).—Called also Cowitch. This plant is a native of warm climates, and grows plentifully in the West Indies. It is a sort of ... is the part used. The Cowhage Pods can generally be found in our drug ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Lectures on materia medica and therapeutics : delivered in the College of Physicians and ... 
    Publication: New York : Samuel S. & William Wood, 1861
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61541310R
    ... effects of it upon the water. ANTHELMINTICS. 157 cowhage {Mucuna pruriens). This plant was long considered the Dolichos pruriens. ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The reformed botanic and Indian physician : a complete guide to health 
    Publication: Utica, N.Y. : Curtiss & White, printers, 1855
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61820150R
    ... tea is good for Colds, Coughs, and Obstructions. COWHAGE, [Mucuna Pruriens,]—A powerful Vermifuge; effectual in Expelling Worms. CLOVES, [ ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Johnson's family physician : from the ablest medical authorities, giving numerous and ... 
    Publication: New York : Johnson, 1880
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63580350R
    ... night, followed by cathartics in the morn- | ing. Cowhage (Mucuna pruriens) is less THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 123 used than ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Chemistry, general, medical, and pharmaceutical : including the chemistry of the U.S. ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea Brothers & Co., 1899
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101619228
    ... hairs of the pod of kiwach (Hindustani) or cowhage (Mucuna pruriens) (P. I.) are almost the only other medicine ( ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - The principles and practice of dermatology : designed for students and practitioners 
    Publication: New York ; London : D. Appleton and Ccompany, 1924
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/48330370R
    ... produced by the hairs of the fruit of cowhage (mucuna pruriens), from the silicious particles in sponges, and Wills, ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - A reference handbook of the medical sciences: embracing the entire range of scientific and ... 
    Publication: New York : Wood, 1885-1893
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/31830700RX6
    ... Peas, lentils, etc. Abr us precatori us Linn. Mucuna pruriens D. C., Cowhage. Butea frondosa, a source of kino. Physostigma venenosum ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Practical therapeutics : considered chiefly with reference to articles of the materia medica 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1871
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63820880R
    ... may be given with assafcetida or alone. 1426. Mucuna pruriens, D. C. Cowhage. If at. Ord. Leguminosae. Hab. East and West ...
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