| 单词 | german acacia |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman acacia 1. Medicine. Originally (later more fully German acacia): a gummy medicinal preparation made from the juice of unripe sloes or plums, used esp. as an astringent (now rare). In later use (also acacia gum): a gum produced by various African acacia trees used in medicine mainly as an emollient and demulcent and (later) as a source of dietary fibre, and in pharmacy as a binding, emulsifying, and suspending agent; also called gum arabic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > general plant-derived medicines savineOE liquoricec1275 verjuice1302 sandragon1334 sugar roset1363 acaciaa1398 agnus castusa1398 sebestenc1400 socotrine aloesa1425 tapsimelc1425 valencec1425 aconitum?a1450 hypericum1471 cassia1543 guaiacum1553 guaiac1558 butcher's broom1578 solanum1578 liquorice-stick1580 symphonia1597 tabasheer1598 diascord1605 orange-bead1626 oxymel of squills1654 Japonic earth1673 terebinthina1693 terebinthinate1696 pareira brava1698 rhabarbarate1716 Japan earth1718 buglossate1725 squill1725 phytolacca1730 nettle juice1747 xanthoxyloïn1767 mustard whey1769 Jesuits' drops1783 digitalis1785 arnica1788 mel-rose1790 gallic acid1791 valerian1794 sacred elixir1797 drosera1801 Spanish juice1803 mudar1819 sabadilla1821 parillin1825 mudarin1829 salicin1830 sang1843 peppermint camphor1854 pareira1855 savanilla1856 euonymin1862 menthol1862 phytolaccin1864 alstonia1868 agoniadin1870 guimauve1870 gelsemium1875 iridin1879 hazeline1880 tub-camphor1880 echinacea1887 jacaranda1887 hamamelin1890 quillain1890 vieirin1893 thiolin1894 mentha camphor1902 hamamelis1910 phytohaemagglutinin1949 adaptogen1966 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 103 Wiþ byndinge medicines we byndeþ, as wiþ acacia. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 220 (MED) Take galle, acacie..& make þerof a gargarism. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 176v (MED) Acacia is Juyse of grene plommez or prunez..it is repercussif strongly. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 44 (MED) Take..acasiam, þat is jus of wod-slon. 1553 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (new ed.) sig. k.v Take of Cassiafistula and of masticke of eche . ʒi. ypoquistidos, Acatia, spodium, Cubebes, Ana. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. xii. 194 There is a kind of Thorne, whereof commeth Acacia..found in Ægypt. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) ii. xxxiii. 1116 His stomach must be fomented with Acacia or Hypocistis with wine. 1698 J. Pechey Compl. Midwife's Practice (ed. 5) 197 Take of Acatia, and Hypocistis, each one dram. 1702 R. Pitt Craft Physick Expos'd 76 Acacia at nine Pence the Ounce, the Dose of it in restringent Pills or Boles, may be valued at half a Farthing. 1754 J. Hill Useful Family Herbal 2 German Acacia is the Juice of unripe Sloes evaporated. 1816 W. Bingley Useful Knowl. III. xxiii. 291 The dried juice of the unripe fruit of Egyptian mimosa is called acacia, and is to this day much used in medicine by the Egyptians. 1842 W. Withers Acacia Tree 170 Gum Arabic is now, in the Materia Medica of the London Pharmacopœia,..styled acacia gum. 1906 New Internat. Encycl. XVIII. 241/2 An astringent extract, called German acacia, prepared from it [sc. the sloe], was once much used as a substitute for gum arabic. 1920 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 51 278 The serum non-protein increase after the intravenous injection of a known amount of acacia or gelatin solution. 1990 Omni Aug. 26/4 Recently..acacia gum has been recognized as spermatocidal in the presence of vaginal lactic acid. 2008 Food Hydrocolloids 22 30/2 Acacia gum is traditionally utilised by African and Indian populations..to prevent and treat intestinal disorders. < as lemmas |
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