Everything was in the word carminative -- a detailed, exact foreground, an immense, indefinite hinterland of suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow] Reference

Ginger can be classified as a carminative in addition to an antiflammatory and diaphoretic herb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store]

The medical term "carminative," a comforting medicine, really means a charm medicine, and has the same derivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

I had a whole poem ruined, just because the word 'carminative' didn't mean what it ought to have meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow] Reference

Recently, for example, I had a whole poem ruined, just because the word 'carminative' didn't mean what it ought to have meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow]

The older herbalists esteemed them superior in comforting carminative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The seeds of our Sweet Celery are carminative, and act on the kidneys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Godfrey's cordial, Dalby's carminative, and Collis Browne's chlorodyne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

Coriander water was formerly much esteemed as a carminative for windy colic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The seeds have a fragrant odor, a pleasant, warm taste, and are highly carminative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The seeds are carminative, and the roots and leaves have reputed medicinal properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Anise seed is used because of its mild warming, stimulant, and carminative properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference

But if the inflation chance to be very great, then a carminative glyster must be ordained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference

The oil is aromatic and acrid, and has been used as a condiment and a stimulant carminative.    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

It is used medicinally as a tonic and carminative, in the form of powder, syrup, and tincture.    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

Its distilled water is carminative and anti-spasmodic; whilst the whole plant is essentially stimulating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The seeds have a sweet, pleasant, anise-like taste and odor, are strongly carminative, and yield an essential oil by distillation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

The whole plant has a warm carminative taste, and the old Greeks esteemed it highly for promoting the secretion of milk in nursing mothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Wintergreen is carminative, and is used in colics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

It is carminative, stimulant and probably antiseptic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

"A mental carminative," said Mr. Scogan reflectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow] Reference

Acts as a carminative (expels gas from the intestines).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store]

'And passion carminative as wine ...' was what I wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow] Reference

Stim. carminative; also adjunct to liniments; internally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Supply Table of the Indigenous Remedies for Field Service and the Sick in General Hospitals.] Reference

It is a very useful stimulant, tonic, stomachic and carminative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

If I recollect right, you threw the carminative mixture in my face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

Peppermint is a powerful stimulant, carminative, and antispasmodic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

Ginger is a good carminative and is official in the pharmacopoeias of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

It is employed in flatulent colic as a carminative and antispasmodic.    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 carminative virtues of burgundy, of rum, of old brandy, of Lacryma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow] Reference

The oil is sometimes used in toothache and as a carminative in medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference

Anise is a pleasant, aromatic carminative, and is used in flatulent colic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

The green fruit is highly esteemed by Radja Kalikesen as a carminative, tonic and purgative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

The juice of the leaves is a carminative and is given to children suffering with wind colic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference