NOUN
- any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives
- any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina
How To Use rauwolfia In A Sentence
- For high blood pressure, the root of rauwolfia vomitoria has been a staple in the African pharmacy for centuries. Boise Weekly
- We have already seen the minor ripple caused by idiots tossing about ma huang - which is a relatively mild stimulant in the realm of herbalism - but what happens when some genius decides that rauwolfia or foxglove is the new way to go?
- At about the same time, a second class of “tranquilizers”—the rauwolfia alkaloids or reserpine, which was marketed as Serpasil by Ciba Pharmaceutical entered practice, and they were followed by the development of such antidepressants as iproniazid and imipramine. The Mad Among Us
- I say, get medicine back under traditional scientific authority -- the science of all men everywhere that has incorporated such foreign discoveries as rauwolfia, L-dopa and acupuncture without the accompanying bogus voodoo ideologies and superstitions. Mail Call: Ancient Healing Arts
