A gum resin obtained from certain succulent species of Euphorbia. It is an extremely acrid substance, formerly used as an emetic and purgative. The…

Anglicized form of Euphorbium, n.

Pharmacology. The dried leaflets of various species of Cassia, used as a cathartic and emetic.

any of several leguminous plants typically having purgative properties similar to those of senna (genus Senna), esp. bladder senna Colutea arborescens…

The root of Cephaëlis ipecacuanha, N.O. Cinchonaceæ, a South American small shrubby plant, which possesses emetic, diaphoretic, and purgative…

An evergreen shrub or small tree (Ilex cassine or vomitoria), allied to the holly, growing in Texas and the southern U.S.

A genus of scrophulariaceous plants, some of which possess emetic or purgative properties; a plant of this genus, esp. V. diffusa, or a medicinal…

attributive, as ipecacuanha cuttings, ipecacuanha lozenge, ipecacuanha root;

= ipecacuanha, n.

A white crystalline powder, C17H17NO2, obtained by heating morphia with an excess of hydrochloric acid.

a kind of senna derived from Cassia angustifolia.