These objects are best attained by means of the galvanic current, which should be employed of sufficient intensity to produce a rubefacient effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Peru balsam is used extensively as a local protectant, rubefacient, parasiticide in certain skin diseases, antiseptic, and applied externally as an ointment, or in alcoholic solutions. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 43] Reference
When applied in lotions every night for five or six times consecutively, it will heal indolent ulcers; and its rubefacient effects serve instead of those produced externally by mustard. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
This has also a rubefacient and epispastic operation. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The powdered leaves are rubefacient, and act as a substitute for cantharides. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
The juice is used externally as a rubefacient in rheumatic affections of the joints. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
In America the leaves are used as a poultice in otitis, their action being rubefacient. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
According to Mérat, the Bedouins use it as a rubefacient, and it is applied in sciatica, forming a substitute for cantharides. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
As an external rubefacient, a stimulant, an astringent, a stimulating diuretic and laxative, it admits of frequent application. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Therapeutically it is used externally in leprosy, old ulcers and to destroy corns, but on account of its rubefacient and vesicant qualities it is necessary to use it cautiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
'Treatment of chronic rheumatism' -- warm baths are useful, and warm housing absolutely necessary, attention to diet, and an occasional purge of blue mass and aloes, together with electricity, acupuncture, rubefacient applications to the spine, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
The formulation of the products varied widely and they contained additional components such as adrenal extract, the local anesthetic myrtecaine, and capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their spiciness and which is often considered a rubefacient. From Wordnik.com. [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference
A rubefacient and stimulant, especially in cases of ulcerated sore throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
2. Applying oil over the affected surface and taking the edge of a glass Chinese soup spoon and scraping vigorously in one direction until there is a general rubefacient reddening of the surface of the skin. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
It is also used there as a rubefacient. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
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