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Duodenum
The beginning of the small intestine; lies just below the stomach. First part of the small intestine, between the stomach and the jejunum; the major site of digestion. This is the beginning of the small intestines, and it empties the stomach. It is 9 or 10 inches long, holds about the same amount of food…
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Depurant
Substance that stimulates excretion. A medicine that helps to purify by promoting the removal of waste material from the body.
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Counterirritant
Substance applied to the skin that produces an irritation, heating, or vasodilating action. Generally, it speeds healing by increasing blood circulation and warming deep (usually joint) inflammations. Superficial irritant used to relieve more deep-seated pain or discomfort. A substance applied to the skin to produce an irritating, heating, or vasodilating effect, in order to speed…
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Bitter tonic
Bitter-tasting substance that increases gastric secretions, tonifies the stomach, increases deficient appetite, and increases stomach acidity. These all aid deficient digestion. A bitter-tasting substance or formula used to increase a deficient appetite, improve the acidity of stomach secretions (and protein digestion), and slightly speed up the orderly emptying of the stomach. A good bitter tonic…
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Antihepatoxic
Substance that prevents toxins from negatively affecting the liver.
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Anaphrodisiac
Substance that depresses sexual desire and drive. A substance used to decrease libido and enhance sexual appetite, the opposite of aphrodisiac. An herb that lessens sexual inclination or function. An agent that quells sexual desire. A substance that reduces sexual desire. An agent that tonifies the reproductive system. An agent that curbs sex drive. Loss…
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Allopathic
Conventional modern medicine. Originally only one of eight or so schools of medicine in the United States. By 1930, through a brilliant blend of legislative action, money generation through advertising in the journal of the American Medical Association, control over the licensing of medical schools, and deceptive conciliation· of other medical organizations, the allopaths gained…
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Abortificant or Abortifacient
An agent that causes abortion, usually by increasing blood flow to the uterus. Sometimes a substance that causes deformation of the fetus, inducing the body to spontaneously abort. A substance that causes abortion.
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Zygomorphous
With bilateral symmetry, i.e. either side of an (imaginary) central line being a mirror image of the other.
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Zygomorphic
With bilateral symmetry, i.e. either side of an (imaginary) central line being a mirror image of the other. Bilaterally symmetrical, often this is described as ‘abnormal’, especially with reference to corollas.
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