Difference between leadwort and plumbago
Definitions
noun
- a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers
Examples
Dr. Oswald has employed the alcoholic tincture of leadwort in the intermittents, with satisfactory results, and claims that it is a powerful diaphoretic.
Definitions
noun
- any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago
- used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
Examples
The planter behind is filled with fragrant vines; two ‘Royal Cape’ plumbagos in red pots flank the front posts.
Bees hum in the plumbago.
But if you wish to effect the cure by suppositories, take the shell of the part fish a third part of plumbago, bitumen, alum, a little of the flos aeris, galls, a little verdigris; having poured a small quantity of boiled honey on these, and formed an oblong suppository, apply until you remove them.
