Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of North American plants, of the natural order Ranunculaceæ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan
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Examples
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Hoping to strengthen her immune system, she also drinks an herbal tincture rich in thuja, hydrastis and ligustium.
Going Mainstream 2008
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-- Several correspondents in _The Lancet_ have lauded hydrastis as a most useful drug in dyspepsia.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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The best of these are: tinct. hydrastis, one drachm; pure water, four ounces; to be used three times
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The best of these are: tinct. hydrastis, one drachm; pure water, four ounces; to be used three times a day after urinating.
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Neither did he consign so many letters to the fire fairies, for now he was writing of the best way to dry hydrastis and preserve ginseng seed.
The Harvester 1911
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Neither did he consign so many letters to the fire fairies, for now he was writing of the best way to dry hydrastis and preserve ginseng seed.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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When there is much weakness in the action of the heart, or general debility is marked, the iodid of iron, in 1-dram doses, combined with hydrastis, 3 drams, may be given three times a day.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Tonics, in the form of iodid of iron in 1-dram doses, to which is added 2 drams of powdered hydrastis, may also be given every six or eight hours, as soon as the active fever has abated.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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I wrote up the value of lobelia in surgery, obstetrics and practice over thirty years ago; also the valuable properties of hydrastis can., both of which were almost unnoticed then and since by regular practitioners.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 1856
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