Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several tropical American shrubs of the genus Pilocarpus, especially P. microphyllus, whose dried leaves yield the medicinal alkaloid pilocarpine.
- noun The dried leaves of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Brazilian plant, Pilocarpus pennatifolius; also, the drug obtained from it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub (
Pilocarpus pennatifolius ). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
species of thegenus Pilocarpus ofplants , some of which are importantmedicinally .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rare or threatened trees in the area include jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus), mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), and Dicypellium caryophyllatum, a timber tree whose bark contains a pleasant-smelling essential oil.
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He returned to the lab and cooked up a brew consisting of some exotic poisons: atropine (a naturally occurring alkaloid of atropia belladonna or deadly nightshade), sparteine (a compound derived from the European shrub Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius), and pilocarpine hydrochloride (an alkaloid found in the leaves of a South American shrub, Pilocarpus jaborandi).
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Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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For this symptom fluid extract of jaborandi was prescribed with the effect of relieving the itching.
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Prentiss also reported the following case 9.332 as adding another to the evidence that jaborandi will produce the effect mentioned under favorable circumstances: Mrs. L., aged seventy-two years, was suffering from Bright's disease (contracted kidney).
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For this symptom fluid extract of jaborandi was prescribed with the effect of relieving the itching.
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Prentiss also reported the following case a as adding another to the evidence that jaborandi will produce the effect mentioned under favorable circumstances: Mrs. L., aged seventy-two years, was suffering from Bright's disease (contracted kidney).
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Constitutional remedies are practically powerless; occasionally some good is accomplished by the internal administration of linseed oil and jaborandi.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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When the breathing begins to be loud, relief is afforded in some cases by giving a drench composed of 2 drams of fluid extract of jaborandi in half a pint of water.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Finally, I will cite jaborandi (Tupí), ` the dried leaves of a rutaceous shrub, Pilocarpus jaborandi, that are a source of philocarpine, 'and pataua (Tupí) ` a fatty oil similar to olive oil obtained from the fruit of a Brazilian palm.'
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