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	Quassia - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		QUASSIA, the generic name given by Linnaeus to a small tree of Surinam in honour of the negro Quassi or Coissi, who employed the intensely bitter bark of the tree (Quassia amara) as a remedy for fever.
		Quassia amara is a shrub or small tree belonging to the same natural order as Picraena, viz.
		Jamaica quassia is imported into England in logs several feet in length and often nearly one foot in thickness, consisting of pieces of the trunk and larger branches.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Quassia (429 words)

	Quassia
		Quassia is commonly used to stimulate a weak appetite, especially in the treatment of anorexia.
		Externally as a lotion quassia may be used against lice infestations.
		In dyspepsia quassia may be used with meadowsweet, marshmallow root and hops.
	www.herbs2000.com /herbs/herbs_quassia.htm (722 words)

	Quassia Herbal Supplement from Herbal Extracts Plus
		Quassia is a tall, graceful, ashlike tree that is native to tropical America, most notably in the hill forests of Jamaica and Surinam, where it is cultivated as a commercial crop.
		Quassia is a tender, deciduous perennial that thrives in moist, sandy, humus-rich soil in sun or partial shade.
		Quassia should not be taken in large amounts (many times the recommended dosage), as it may act as an irritant and produce vomiting.
	www.herbalextractsplus.com /quassia.cfm (833 words)

	Herbal Descriptions - Quassia - Picraena excelsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Quassia was also used by the indigenous tribes to treat dysentery, snakebite, venereal disease, and malaria.
		Quassia is now used primarily as a bitter tonic to aid in digestion and has been used in combination with Meadowsweet, Marshmallow Root, and Hops in the treatment of dyspepsia.
		Quassia is sometimes used to treat sinus infections and to lower fevers.
	www.viable-herbal.com /herbdesc5/1quassia.htm (453 words)

	quassia - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		quassia, name for several tropical trees and for a bitter extract from their bark.
		Surinam quassia comes from the tree Quassia amara of N Brazil and surrounding regions; Jamaica quassia comes from Picrasma excelsa of the West Indies.
		Quassia is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Simaroubaceae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-quassia.html (204 words)

	Quassia / Picrasma amara / Bitter Ash(fireweed->exnatrem)
		Quassia leaves are used in a bath for treating measles, or as a mouthwash after tooth extractions.
		Quassia is also known as bitter wood or bitter ash and is native to the tropical regions of Central and South America and the Caribbean.
		Quassia has no known safety issues or interactions when taken in the recommended doses; however, exceeding the recommended dosage can produce depression, nausea, stomach irritation and vomiting.
	www.insensual.com /quassia.html (789 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Quassia - Herb Profile and Information
		Quassia wood is a pure bitter tonic and stomachic; it is also a vermicide and slight narcotic; it acts on flies and some of the higher animals as a narcotic poison.
		In small doses Quassia increases the appetite large doses act as an irritant and cause vomiting; its action probably lessens putrefaction in the stomach, and prevents the formation of acid substances during digestion.
		Quassia with sulphuric acid acts as a cure for drunkenness, by destroying the appetite for alcoholics.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/q/quassi01.html (465 words)

	Bitter Ash - eMedicinal.com
		Quassia chips are used to discourage thumb sucking among children.
		Quassia chips, an intense bitter, is used in aperitifs and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
		The generic name Quassia is derived from a man named Quassi of Surinam, who employed the wood with uncommon success as a secret remedy in the malignant endemic fevers which frequently prevails in Surinam.
	www.emedicinal.com /herbs/bitterash1.php (525 words)

	retort
		A single shrub of Quassia species B was observed on the subject land in community 8, Eucalyptus planchoniana dry scleropbyll forest (Figure 1).
		Note: the distribution and extent of Quassia species B on the subject land should be further investigated Following such an investigation, modification of conservation measures for the species may be necessary.
		In response we note that, in relation to the preparation of recovery plans under the TSC Act, the highest priority is to be given to those species, populations and ecological communities that are identified by an asterisk in Schedule 1.
	www.gaiaguys.net /retort.htm (1359 words)

	Ash, Bitter
		Exhausted Quassia chips having hardly any bitterness are sometimes met with in commerce and also chips with greyish markings due to a fungus.
		From Syrup of Quassia, made with molasses, a harmless fly-poison is prepared, with which cloth or filtering-papers are moistened.
		Quassia has been used by brewers as a substitute for hops and is in general use by gardeners, mixed with soft soap, for spraying plants affected with green-fly.
	www.nisbett.com /herbs/a/ashbi074.html (273 words)

	Cuasia - Quassia
		The pale yellow, intensely bitter-tasting wood of the West Indian quassia tree is granulated to prepare a medicinal remedy.
		The wood of the Surinam quassia, Quassia amara L., a smaller tree that grows in Colombia, Argentina, Guyana, Mexico and Panama, is also used.
		Quassia became a common European bitter tonic for similar conditions once it was imported to the continent in the 1700s.
	electrocomm.tripod.com /quassia.html (462 words)

	Free herb information - QUASSIA
		Two varieties of quassia are used commercially; a West Indian large tree, to over 30 metres, with thick upright trunk, and pinnate, oblong leaves, yellow/green, small flower spikes and pea size, shiny, fl seed capsules.
		With this knowledge of the tree, he made a tea of the wood from the tree and used it as a remedy to help many people with a deadly fever, fls and whites alike, all who needed it he freely gave, and they were healed and restored to health.
		Eventually, in 1756 he shared his life-saving quassia recipe and a large supply was taken to England, and, at once, quassia became famous in Europe.
	www.herbsarespecial.com.au /free-herb-information/quassia.html (634 words)

	quassiaamara
		Antifertility activity of Quassia amara: Quassin inhibits the steroidogenesis in rat Leydig cells in vitro.
		The influence of aqueous extracts of Quassia amara (L.) on cereal aphids.
		Roles of nectar robbers in reproduction of the tropical treelet Quassia amara (Simaroubaceae).
	www.newcrops.uq.edu.au /listing/quassiaamara.htm (556 words)

	Quassia - Picraena excelsa - Encapsulated Botanical - Herbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Quassia comes from a tree native to the New World, and has been used for centuries to fight intestinal parasites, ease digestion, reduce fever, and cleanse the bowels.
		Quassia is also said to lessen one's taste for alcohol.
		Quassia was used by native peoples to rid their children of lice.
	www.viable-herbal.com /singles/herbs/s932.htm (900 words)

	Quassia maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Right of centre and 2/3 down the image is a Q (on its side) for Quassia.
		Above it and to the left is the dot to which it refers.
		The Quassia's are still on the letter "Q", but now have multiplied upstream, moving even further away from their original location.
	www.gaiaguys.net /Quassia_maps.htm (106 words)

	Quassia
		Also with a common name of Quassia and many of the same constituents and uses, P. excelsa is much taller (up to 25 meters) and occurs in the tropics of Jamaica, the Caribbean and the West Indies.
		The PDR for Herbal Medicine cites that Quassia bark stimulates secretion of gastric juices, increases appetite, aids in digestion and may have a choleretic effect.
		Kupchan SM, 1976 Quassimarin, a new antileukemic quassinoid from Quassia amara.
	www.herbalhut.com /quassia.htm (1054 words)

	QUASSIA AMARA TINCTURE.
		In traditional medicine in Surinam, quassia is used for carcinoma, debility, dyspepsia, fever, heptoses, hyperglycemia, malaria, snakebite and spasms and the bark is considered to be aperitif, depurative, insecticidal, laxative, stomachic, tonic, and vermifuge.
		Quassia can also be used in such cases as anorexia nervosa and digestive sluggishness
		Quassia is very effective as a liver and pancreatic support.
	www.tropilab.com /quassiatincture.html (254 words)

	Database entry for: Amargo - Quassia amara, Amargo - Quassia amara, Amargo - Quassia amara, Amargo - Quassia amara, ...
		Database entry for: Amargo - Quassia amara, Amargo - Quassia amara, Amargo - Quassia amara, Amargo - Quassia amara, Amargo - Quassia
		Homeopathic Uses: Quassia amara is used for gallbladder complaints, as bitter tonic, purgative and as anthelmintic (for ascarid and threadworms).
		Dosage: Quassia Wood is used in homeopathic dilutions and in commercial pharmaceutical preparations.
	www.rain-tree.com /amargo.htm (2269 words)

	Quassia
		Common Use: Quassia is an excellent remedy in dyseptic conditions due to lack of tone.
		The quassinoid bitter principles stimulate the taste receptors, causing a reflex increase in the secretion of saliva and gastric juices and thus stimulating the appetite.
		This information has not been evaluated by the US Food and Drug Administration, nor has it gone through the rigorous double-blind studies required before a particular product can be deemed truly beneficial or potentially dangerous and prescribed in the treatment of any condition or disease.
	www.herbalformulas.com /quassia.html (306 words)

	The Difference Dictionary:A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Quassia - The wood of several tropical trees, used as a medicinal bitter tonic and an efficient anthelmintic for threadworm.
		Quetzalcoatlus - A Creaceous pterodactyl said to have an amazing windspread, discovered in Texas in the 1970s by Professor Wann Langston and a team of paleontologists from the University of Texas.
		Also, the painting you link to at Dinosauria.com has the chisel beak of the misidentified tapejarid from much lower in the Big Bend strata that was not contemporaneous with Qn.
	www.sff.net /people/gunn/dd/q.htm (166 words)

	QUASSIA - [Alternative Medicine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Quassia is an herbal medicine used to treat nausea (stomach upset), loss of appetite, and worm infections.
		The amount depends on the strength of the medicine and the reason you are taking Quassia.
		If you are using this medicine without instructions from your caregiver, follow the directions on the medicine bottle.
	www.luhs.org /HEALTH/kbase/htm/mdx-/ame0/143/mdx-ame0143.htm (429 words)

	eng\Quassia
		The bark of quassia (Kwassi in Suriname) contains many phytochemicals, which are 50 times bitterer than quinine.Amargo contains the phytochemical quassin, the bitterest substance found in nature.
		It may also have a choleretic effect.Homeopathic Uses: Quassia amara is used for gallbladder complaints, as bitter tonic, purgative and as anthelmintic (for ascarid and threadworms).
		In Brazilian herbal medicine today, Amargo bark is considered tonic, stomachic, and aperitive; recommended for diarrhea, dysentery, dyspepsia, blennorhagia, intestinal gas, stomachaches, anemia, liver disorders, and gastrointestinal disorders.
	www.puralibre.com /html/eng_quassia.html (1218 words)

	QUASSIA - Online Information article about QUASSIA
		QUASSIA, the generic name given by See also:
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/QUASSIA.html (391 words)

	Herbal Encyclopedia - Q
		Quassia Lignum, B.P. ---Part Used---Wood of trunks and branches.
		Quassia Amara, or Surinan Quassia, as found in commerce, is in much smaller billets than the Jamaica Quassia, and is used in its place on the Continent, and is easily recognized from the Jamaica one, which it closely resembles, by its medullary rays, which are only one cell wide, and contain no calcium oxalate.
		Cups made of the wood and filled with liquid will in a few hours become thoroughly impregnated and this drink makes a powerful tonic.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/chaney/191/id117.htm (3866 words)

	Bitter Wood Herbal Supplement from Herbal Extracts Plus
		In 1756, Bitter Wood was brought from Surinam to Stockholm by a Swede who had purchased it from a native healer named Quassi, thereby giving the herb another of its names, Quassia, and the drug soon became popular as a digestive tonic and appetite stimulant.
		The Bitter Wood from Jamaica (Jamaican Quassia) soon superceded the species from Surinam in popularity, but the name often continued.
		In addition to it use in herbal medicine, Bitter Wood is a very valuable commercial crop that is an ingredient in soft drinks, candies, baked goods, marmalades, liqueurs and other alcoholic drinks and as a substitute for hops in brewing beer and ale.
	www.herbalextractsplus.com /bitter-wood.cfm (883 words)

	Amargo (Quassia amara, amargo) Powder by the pound Amargo (Quassia amara) bark powder Amargo (Quassia amara) bark ...
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		Traditional Uses:* for lice and skin parasites; for intestinal parasites and amebic infections; for malaria; for digestive problems (ulcers, dyspepsia, intestinal gas and bloating, sluggish digestion, anorexia); as a liver/gallbladder aid to increase bile and eliminate toxins and stones
		For more information about amargo (Quassia amara), please refer to the Database File for Amargo in the Tropical Plant Database.
	www.rain-tree.com /amargo-powder.htm (808 words)

	QUASSIA AMARA - AMARGO.
		Surinam wood, amargo, kwassi, bitterwood, quassia wood, pau amarelo, pau quassia, quassia amarga, quassia, palo muneco, kvassia, bois amer, bitterholz, gorzkla, pao tariri.
		The racemes exist of beautiful small cherry-red flowers; out of each flower arise 5 oval, red-brown fruits which turn fl as they ripen.
		The bark of quassia contains many phytochemicals, which are 50 times bitterer than quinine.
	www.tropilab.com /quassia-ama.html (223 words)

	Quassia Chips Powder From Well Naturally
		Quassia Chips Powder is one of an extensive line of herbs and spices, offered by Well Naturally, for all your herbal needs.
		Please check our herb pages for a complete listing of our herbs.
		To order, type the quantities of the items that you wish to buy and click the "add to cart" button.
	www.wellnaturally.ca /herbs/quassiachppwdr.html (54 words)

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		Uses : Quassia in the form of chips has no smell but an intense bitter taste, which will always distinguish the pure herb from adulterations; the infusion of these by persalt of iron gives a bluish-fl color, but as the blue Quassia chips contain no tannic acid, no result is produced in the infusion.
		Having no tannic acid, it is frequently given with chalybeates and therefore can be prescribed with salts of iron; as an aromatic bitter stomachic it acts in the same way as calumba.
		Please note that this item is only available in 8oz and 16oz amounts.
	www.tripleaspectherbs.com /Bulkherbs/quassia.htm (386 words)

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