ipecacuanhan.
/ɪpɪkakjuːˈanə/ 1. The root of Cephaëlis ipecacuanha, N.O. Cinchonaceæ, a South American small shrubby plant, which possesses emetic, diaphoretic, and purgative properties; also popularly applied to various forms in which the drug is employed.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > drastic purgative or emetic > plant-derived purgative or emetic
Euphorbiumc1400
euforbe1436
senna1571
bastard senna1597
ipecacuanha1682
yapona1712
Vandellia1797
ipecacuanha lozenge1847
ipecac1855
apomorphia1869
mocha senna1882
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > ipecacuanha > root
ipecacuanha1682
ipecac1855
1682 J. Pechey (title) Some Observations made upon the Brasilian Root, called Ipepocoanha.
1682 J. Pechey Some Observations made upon Brasilian Root, called Ipepocoanha 4 What wonderful Virtue I have found in the Root called Hypepocoanha.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 114 As for the Hypopecovana it's a small Root, that in our Armies has sufficiently discovered the Vertues of it against the Bloody-flux.
1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 134 Tho' he took..Hypocochoana five times, it had no effect upon him.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 24 The Ipecacuana..is a little Root; which the Dutch and Portuguese bring us from the coast of Brazil.
1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 303 Oil of Copayoa, Hypecacuana.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §84 The violent operation of ipecacuanha lies in its resin.
1761 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 9) 113 Pour a Dish of tea on twenty Grains of Ipecacuanha.
1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 60 (note) Almost as useful in dysenteric complaints as ipecacuan.
1772 Hey in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 260 Five grains of ipecacoanha.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 176 Two or three grains of ipecacuan.
1829 R. Southey Oliver Newman v Words..which from me or you Could not be forced by ipecacuanha, Drop from his oratoric lips like manna.
2. The plant Cephaëlis Ipecacuanha.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > ipecacuanha
ipecac1788
ipecacuanha1788
redhead1798
1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 21 Sept. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 427 Found vast quantities of Ipecacuanha on a hill.
1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Aug. 4 In Calcutta some experiments have been made in the cultivation of ipecacuanha.
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 175 Ipecacuanha, covered with bright red and yellow flowers grew in profusion.
3. Transferred to many other plants whose roots have emetic properties, e.g. American ipecacuanha ( Euphorbia Ipecacuanha also Gillenia trifoliata); Indian ipecacuanha, Ceylon ipecacuanha, Coromandel ipecacuanha ( Tylophora asthmatica); striated ipecacuanha ( Psychotria emetica); wild ipecacuanha ( Asclepias curassavica, Triosteum perfoliatum); white ipecacuanha, amylaceous ipecacuanha, or undulated ipecacuanha ( Richardsonia scabra). false ipecacuanha, a term applied to nearly all these plants, but esp. to species of Ionidium.bastard ipecacuanha, black ipecacuanha, Peruvian ipecacuanha: see the first element.
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1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 316 Bastard Ipecacuana, Asclepias. False Ipecacuana, Triosteum.
4. figurative. Something that produces nausea.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun] > something which disgusts
slime1585
ipecacuanhaa1763
nastiness1831
sickener1853
disgustant1866
muck1882
pig's breakfast1933
ick1947
yuck1966
merde1968
scuzz1968
turn-off1975
put-off1977
a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. in Wks. (1765) II. 191 The foppery of love-verses, when a person is ill and indisposed, is perfect ipecacuanha.
a1797 H. Walpole Walpoliana (1799) I. 23 An author talking of his own works, or censuring those of others, is to me a dose of hypecacuana.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as ipecacuanha cuttings, ipecacuanha lozenge, ipecacuanha root;
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > drastic purgative or emetic > plant-derived purgative or emetic
Euphorbiumc1400
euforbe1436
senna1571
bastard senna1597
ipecacuanha1682
yapona1712
Vandellia1797
ipecacuanha lozenge1847
ipecac1855
apomorphia1869
mocha senna1882
1847 F. A. Kemble Let. 7 Mar. in Rec. Later Life (1882) III. 173 I..am swallowing ipecacuanha lozenges by the gross.
1870 R. Christison Jrnl. in Life II. 211 The ipecacuan cuttings for India.
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. p. xlix Ipecacuanha lozenges.
C2.
ipecacuanha wine n. the filtered infusion of the root in wine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > medicinal potion or draught > [noun] > medicated wine > specific
opopanax wine?1550
mandrake winea1640
white wine whey1718
sack-whey1736
oporice1753
ipecacuanha wine1761
wine whey1769
antimonial wine1771
balm-winea1811
mandragora1844
lizard wine1894
1761 J. Armstrong Day 194 I've known a dame, sage else as a divine, For brandy whip off ipecacuan wine.
1774 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 3) App. 748 Ipecacuanha Wine.
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