A medicine may be an emmenagogue without being an ecbolic. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
The following is recommended as a reliable emmenagogue in many cases of functional amenorrhoea. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
It also eliminates worms and is an emmenagogue, so it should be generally avoided during pregnancy. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
Many herbs with emmenagogue properties promoting menstruation are contraindicated during pregnancy. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
It is sudorific; diuretic, emmenagogue and cathartic. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
Furthermore it is stomachic, antispasmodic and emmenagogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The Chinese use the trunk bark as an emmenagogue, calling it. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The essential oil is regarded as emmenagogue and antihysteric. 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 bark and the tips of the branches are given as an emmenagogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The leaves are emmenagogue, purgative like those of senna, and excitant. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
They also attribute to it diuretic, emmenagogue and anthelmintic properties. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The flowers are given in decoction for headache and the fruit is emmenagogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The bark of the trunk is well known as a febrifuge and emmenagogue in India. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The root possesses stimulant, diaphoretic, diuretic and emmenagogue properties. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The natives of Cochin China, reasoning in an opposite manner, prescribe it as emmenagogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The bark especially is a powerful emmenagogue, used in some countries for criminal purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
It is, therefore, an emmenagogue and its prolonged use causes hemorrhoids, especially in man. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The decoction is prescribed internally as an emmenagogue and demulcent and externally as a lotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
It acts very much as savin, being stimulant and emmenagogue, and employed in catamenial obstructions. 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 root bark is used in India as an emmenagogue in the congestive and neuralgic forms of amenorrhoea. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
It is used in spasmodic vomiting, flatulent colics, and nervous headaches; some say it is powerfully emmenagogue. 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 seeds are emollient, laxative, diuretic and emmenagogue; they contain an oil to which we shall refer presently. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Bontius has extolled it highly, calling attention to the anodyne, diuretic and emmenagogue properties of the leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The root is tonic, febrifuge and expectorant and the fruit nervine and emmenagogue according to the Sanscrit writer. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
In North India this drug is used as emmenagogue and anti-arthritic, and in Banda for intermittent fevers and intestinal disorders. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
He also recommends its use before breakfast as an anthelmintic in lumbricoids, and finally attributes to it virtues as an emmenagogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
PIERCE'S COMPOUND EXTRACT OF SMART-WEED is an excellent emmenagogue. 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 regarded as tonic and emmenagogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
In India the seeds are considered emmenagogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The fruit is emmenagogue and perhaps aperient. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
It seems also to possess emmenagogue properties. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Stimulant, diuretic, sialagogue, expectorant, purgative, emetic, sudorific, and also emmenagogue. 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 leaves are deobstruent, laxative, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, antihysteric, and anthelmintic.". 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 root is the part used, it is sudorific, tonic, diuretic, anodyne, emmenagogue, and slightly astringent. From Wordnik.com. [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference
The whole plant is antiseptic, aperient, astringent, diuretic, emmenagogue, febrifuge, narcotic, sedative, styptic and sudorific. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
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