How To Use Quassia In A Sentence
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The burning of scents like frankincense and myrrh dates back to the ancient Egyptians, and continued through the centuries, gradually including sweet spices like cinnamon, quassia, cloves, allspice and nutmeg.
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Emetic herbs include bayberry, boneset, buckthorn, culver, false unicorn, lobelia, mandrake, mistletoe, mustard seed, pleurisy, quassia, rue and senega
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Now add quassia chips, blessed thistle, mandrake root.
Night World No. 1
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This type of size reduction is of dubious value and is only officially used for quassia which is a hard wood.
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The burning of scents like frankincense and myrrh dates back to the ancient Egyptians, and continued through the centuries, gradually including sweet spices like cinnamon, quassia, cloves, allspice and nutmeg.
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A few preparations make use of digestive enzymes, while many others contain plant substances such as chirata, gentian, calama, quassia, orange peel and many spices.
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Historically, the most popular digestives, or digestifs, have been alcoholic bitters, which usually include angostura bark, cinchona bark (Cinchona spp.), bitter gentian root and/or quassia chips as the principal components.
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She ripped open a plastic bag and grabbed the quassia chips.
Night World No. 1
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Guiana; among simarubaceous plants, the Quassia amara, celebrated in the feverish plains of Surinam; among terebinthaceous plants, the Rhus glabrum; among euphorbiaceous plants, the Croton cascarilla; among composite plants, the Eupatorium perfoliatum, the febrifuge qualities of which are known to the savages of North America.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Worms located in the posterior bowel may be removed by rectal injections of a weak water infusion of quassia chips.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Several early clinical studies performed on quassia verified its traditional use as a natural insecticide, documenting it as an effective treatment for head lice infestation in humans.
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Native to tropical America and the Caribbean, quassia grows in forests and near water.
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I will state in passing that the Report for 1855 also contains notices of the best mode of cultivating many other medicinal plants -- such as the rhatany, gall-nut oak, Iceland moss, liquorice, quassia, senna, gum arabic, etc.
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
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One third of a pint of quassia to which add a tablespoonful of rocksalt.
Ulysses
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A slightly splenetic man, possessed of Scotts sense, would have swept his premises clear of them: Let no blue bottle approach here, to disturb a man in his work, under pain of sugared squash (called quassia) and kings yellow!
Paras. 50-73
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By the simple process of spraying the plant three or four times a day, until it is out of the seed-leaf, and the danger is over, it is possible in the garden to wash out the = Haltica =; and any kind of insecticide or flavouring, such as quassia, may be mingled with the water to render the plants distasteful to the insects.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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There is preliminary evidence that quassia may be useful in the treatment of leukemia or gastric ulcers.
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The quassia tree grows from 50 to 100 feet high; it has smooth, gray bark and alternate, odd-pinnate leaves with oblong, pointed leaflets. Its small flowers are yellowish or greenish, its fruit is a small rupe about the size of a pea.
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When the quinine ran out they gave Sharpe quassia bark instead, but still the fever raged, and even the Navy's remedy, suggested by Lord Spears, which consisted of gunpowder mixed with brandy, did not work.
Sharpe's Sword