How To Use Strophanthus In A Sentence
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_Clitandra_, _Carpodinus_ and _Conopharygia_, and from other apocynaceous plants; the _Strophanthus_ pod (furnishing a valuable drug); ground-nuts
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Strophanthus gratus contains the cardiac glycoside [gamma] strophanthin and the alkaloid inoeine.
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Tincture of strophanthus, sodæ bicarb., and spirits of chloroform.
The Combined Maze
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A number of herbs including oleander, adonis, black Indian hemp, black hellebore, lily-of-the-valley, squill, and strophanthus contain an active cardiac glycoside that can potentiate digoxin.
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C_14_H_16_O_4_N_2, is also found in fenugreek, _Trigonella foenum-græcum_, in various leguminous plants, and in the seeds of strophanthus.
All About Coffee
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But the drug strophanthus, prescribed for old Mr. Beesley, was not one of them.
The Combined Maze
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The poison used here, and called kombi, is obtained from a species of strophanthus, and is very virulent.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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After having recovered somewhat under the influence of the drug strophanthus, he now became depressed, listless, easily fatigued.
The Combined Maze
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Tincture of strophanthus, in 2-dram doses, will quiet the tumultuous action of the heart in some cases where the digitalis fails.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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It is the most powerful of the group, often causing sickness and diarrhoea; it acts more irritantly on the mucous membrane than either strophanthus, or digitalis, and it may be this stimulating effect which is the cause of its violent diuretic action, though some authorities consider that this is caused by dilatation of the renal arteries.
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any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds.
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It is now recognized as an energetic cardiac poison, comparable with strophanthus, destined to play an important part in therapeutics.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
The Lost World
