How To Use Guaiacum In A Sentence
- There are natural concentrations of white and red fern leaf acacias in this Province, along with guaiacums, locust trees, itínes and white sages.
- Take of 95 percent alcohol 2 quarts, and add to it the following articles: oils of sarsafras and hemlock, spirits of turpentine, balsam of fir, chloriform, tincture of catechu and guaiacum, of each 1 oz., oil of origanum 2 oz., oil of wintergreen 1/2 oz., and gum of camphor 1/2 oz. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
- He continues with advice on how to recognize and treat the disease with various substances and techniques such as sarsaparilla, guaiacum, various ointments, and fumigation. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- -- Take a teaspoonful of the tincture of gum guaiacum and one teaspoonful of vinegar; mix well and apply to the affected parts. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
- This was guaiacum, sometimes called palo santo, a wood from a tree native to the West Indies. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- The Hapsburg Charles V also controlled Spain and, consequently, all shipping to and from Hispaniola, where the guaiacum tree grew.
- Contains images as well as text written in Spanish and Náhuatl. gente de razon: "civilized" people. guaiacum: wood from a tree native to the West Indies, used as a medicine, especially for syphilis; sometimes called "palo santo." limpieza de sangre: "purity of blood"; the absence of Jewish or Muslim ancestors. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- And guaiacum is used by herbalists today.
- There are natural groupings of white and red fern leaf acacias in this Province, along with guaiacums, itínes, locust trees and white sages.
- In the United States the guaiacum is grown for decorative purposes in Florida and California.
