| 单词 | cancer bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmascancer bush cancer bush n. [after Afrikaans kankerbos (earlier in South African Dutch as kankerbosch)] South African any of several plants of the South African genus Sutherlandia (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), purported to have beneficial effects for cancer sufferers; esp. S. frutescens, now also used to treat HIV and AIDS. ΘΚΠ 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 > other non-British medicinal trees or shrubs snake-wood1598 velvet-leaf1707 macary bittera1726 majoa1726 ahuehuete1778 cucumber-tree1784 bilimbi1790 rohuna1829 chaulmoogra1832 juriballi1834 horse-cassia1864 yaw-weed1864 cundurango1871 Chile senna1874 cancer bush1888 quinine tree1905 kankerbos1913 hydnocarpus1928 1888 A. Smith Contrib. to Materia Medica 95 Sutherlandia frutescens..Cancer bush. This shrub has been brought forward recently as a remedy for cancer. 1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvii. 277 The early settlers..used..the pretty little Sutherlandia humilis—the cancer bush—not only for cancer but for flu. 2005 M.-W. Ho et al. Unraveling AIDS xx. 148 ‘Cancer bush’..is another name given to Sutherlandia by Afrikaners that attests to its traditional use as a cancer remedy. < as lemmas |
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