sanguinaria
IPA: sɑŋinˈɑriʌ
noun
- (botany) Any of the genus Sanguinaria, or bloodroots.
- The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
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Examples of "sanguinaria" in Sentences
- Take podophyllin, sixty grains; leptandrin and sanguinaria, ipecac and pure cayenne, each thirty grains.
- Take podophyllin and sanguinaria, of each ten grains; leptandrin, twenty grains; white sugar, forty grains.
- Dr. Shanks, of Tennessee, also destroyed a gelatinous polypus with sanguinaria, after extraction had twice failed.
- In the first place, you must live in the country, where you can find that early spring flower, the blood-root or _sanguinaria_.
- Take pulverized skunk cabbage root, two drams; pulverized extract of liquorice, one dram; sanguinaria and macrotin, of each thirty grains.
- The blood-root, sanguinaria, or puccoon, as it is termed by some of the native tribes, is worthy of attention from the root to the flower.
- Since that period, I have used the tinct. of sanguinaria largely during five years attendance upon the Marine Hospital, and in private practice.
- Though paying some attention to medicinal plants, I use habitually very few of them, viz: the sanguinaria, hoarhound, blackberry root, and a few others.
- If you have little friends; or relatives who live in the city and cannot go into the woods to look for the sanguinaria, you can easily pack a pasteboard box full of the roots and moss, and send it to them by express, or, if it is not too heavy, by mail.
- The flowers of the sanguinaria resemble the white crocus very closely: when it first comes up the bud is supported by the leaf, and is folded together with it; the flower, however, soon elevates itself above its protector, while the leaf having performed its duty of guardian to the tender bud, expands to its full size.
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