alterative

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• Chinese character rhetoric of riddle and alterative interpretation of intermittence reading .
• For those who prefer a sweet alterative, try the Vladimir Martini—a pink-colored mixture of fig vodka and Russian tea syrup. Vodka and Caviar
• Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels. 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
• With cocaine use up and pot down, it took the crack epidemic of the mid-'80s to spur marijuana's gradual reemergence as a safer alterative to the drugs it was supposedly a gateway to. Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition
• In western herbalism these might be classified as alterative, blood purifying or detoxifying.
• The decoction of the root is alterative and purgative; and is also said to be valuable in washing sores and ulcers, in order to change the mode of their vitality, and to make them cicatrize. 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
• Obviously from the above, scabious is expectorant, alterative, vulnerary and astringent.
• The moon and asteroids will also provide rare earth metals that are in short supply on Earth but are needed for the production of alterative sources of energy and the removal of carbon from the atmosphere. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
• Potassium iodide, mercury protoiodide, colchicum seed, sarsaparilla, and arsenous acid are alteratives. Pop Quiz
• How are these different from the pharmaceutical classification of substances as diaphoretics, laxatives, alteratives, stimulants, sedatives, nervines, emmenagogues, carminatives, etc.?