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  1. ... may be given with assafoetida or alone. 1426. Mucuna pruriens, D. C. Cowhage. Nat. Ord. Leguminosae. Hab. East and West Indies. ...
  2. ... Misce: fiat enema. An Antispasmodic and Fxcitant.—Radius. ♦MUCUNA PRURIENS. Cowitch or Cowhage The hairs, with which the pods of this ...
  3. ... press through linen cloth.) Use. In pharmaceutical purposes. MUCUNA. Cowhage. (AT. pruriens.) Vermifuge. Dose. Mixed with molasses, a teaspoonful to ...
  4. ... press through linen cloth.) Use. In pharmaceutical purposes. MUCUNA. Cowhage. (Af. pruriens.) V ermifuge. Dose. Mixed with molasses, a teaspoonful ...
  5. ... TEXTURES. The Dolichos pruriens of Linnaeus, now called Mucuna pruriens, and, in English, Cowhage, is a climbing-plant of the West Indies, ... The same experiment, however, proved inapplicable ON THE MUCUNA ... not admit of the process. Cowhage was introduced into practice, I be- lieve, by ...
  6. ... caries of the spine. AMERICAN MEDICAL FORMULARY. 151 Mucuna. U. S. (Sec.) [Dolichos Pruriens, D.] Cowhage. The bristles of the pods of Mucuna pruriens. Med. Prop. Anthelmintic; acting by their mechanical irritation. ...
  7. ... The hair of the pods of Kiwach or Cowhage (Hindustani) (Mucuna pruriens, P. I.) is almost the only medicine (excluding ...
  8. ... produced by various other stinging plants and by cowhage-down (mucuna pruriens), flax- seed (in poultices), turpentine, and capsicum ; second, ...
  9. ... given in the afternoon of the same day. Mucuna, [U. S.] L. E. Dolichos pruriens, D.—Cowitch, or Cowhage. The hairs from the pods of Mucuna pruriens, L. E.—of Dolichos pruriens, D. This plant, ...
  10. ... States, is the " bristles of the pods of Mucuna pruriens, Doli- chos pruriens, Stizolobium pruriens, Cowhage, or Cowitch." Sex. Syst. Diadelphia Decandria; Nat. Ord. ...
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