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	Scammony - LoveToKnow 1911
		The dried juice, "virgin scammony," obtained by incision of the living root, has been used in medicine as scammonium,l but the variable quality of the drug has led to the employment of scarnmoniae resina, which is obtained from the dried root by digestion with alcohol.
		The dose of scammonium is 5 to to grains, of scammony resin 3 to 8 grains.
		Like certain other resins, scammony is inert until it has passed from the stomach into the duodenum, where it meets the bile, a chemical reaction occurring between it and the taurocholate and glycocholate of sodium, whereby it is converted into a powerful purgative.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Scammony (321 words)

	Scammony is a gum-resin, obtained by incision
		The finest commercial qualities of scammony, known as virgin scammony, occur in large, flat, dark grey or flish pieces, or irregular, flattened lumps, which are easily broken, thin fragments being translucent and yellowish-brown.
		Occasionally virgin scammony of a golden-brown colour and with very few cavities is met with; this is obtained by rapidly drying the collected gum-resin, but it is seldom seen in commerce.
		Scammony may be distinguished from scammony resin by its porosity, by its characteristic odour, and by the gum present, which enables it to form an emulsion when triturated with water.
	www.harvestfields.ca /British/191.htm (573 words)

	Scammony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scammony (Convolvulus scammonia) is a bindweed native to the countries of the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin; it grows in bushy waste places, from Syria in the south to the Crimea in the north, its range extending westward to the Greek islands, but not to northern Africa or Italy.
		The dried juice, virgin scammony, obtained by incision of the living root, has been used in medicine as scammonium, but the variable quality of the drug has led to the employment of scammoniae resina, which is obtained from the dried root by digestion with alcohol.
		Like certain other resins, scammony is inert until it has passed from the stomach into the duodenum, where it meets the bile, a chemical reaction occurring between it and the taurocholate and glycocholate of sodium, whereby it is converted into a powerful purgative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scammony (354 words)

	King's American Dispensatory, 1898: Scammonium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		—Scammony plant is a native of Turkey, Syria, Greece, Persia, etc., and somewhat resembles the Convolvulus panduratus.
		Scammony, treated with ether, may yield to this solvent as much as 90 and 95 per cent of resin; gum and mineral and the other aforementioned insoluble adulterants remain undissolved.
		Scammony is. usually given in the form of an emulsion with sugar or sweet almonds.
	www.ibiblio.org /herbmed/eclectic/kings/convolvulus-scam.html (1032 words)

	Scammony resin is prepared by exhausting
		SCAMMONIAE RESINA, B.P. Scammony resin is prepared by exhausting scammony root by percolation with alcohol, then recovering most of the alcohol by distillation, and precipitating the resin from the residual liquid by slowly pouring it, with constant stirring, into ten times its volume of water.
		—Scammony resin is a drastic purgative, resembling jalap and colocynth.
		Pulvis Scammonii cum Calomelane, B.P.C. Mercurous chloride, 20; scammony resin, 80.
	www.harvestfields.ca /British/192.htm (491 words)

	US Dispensatory, 1918: Resina Scammoniae. Resin of Scammony. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"Scammony Resin is a mixture of resins obtained from Scammony Root or from Orizaba Jalap Root." Br.
		Resin prepared from the root and scammony obtained by evaporating the milky juice of the plant are practically identical.
		is soluble in ether (distinction from resin of jalap and resin of false scammony).
	www.ibiblio.org /herbmed/eclectic/usdisp/convolvulus-scam_resi.html (1043 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Bindweed, Syrian - Herb Profile and Information
		Scammony is a gummy resin, obtained from this milky juice of the root by clearing away the earth from the upper part of the root and cutting off the top obliquely, about 2 inches below where the stalks spring.
		The best Scammony is fl, resinous and shining when in the lump, but of a whitish-ash colour when powdered, with a strong cheesy smell and a somewhat acrid taste, turning milky when touched by the tongue.
		The smallness of their roots prevents the juice being collected in the same way as the foreign species, but an extract made from the expressed juice of the roots or any preparation of them has the same purgative quality, only in less degree.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/b/binwsy42.html (747 words)

	Inexpressible: inexpressible
		At first Scammony's skin was red as red could be, but now it's white, like Tala Lupin's is, and his nose is small and snubby and wiggles like a rabbit's when he's asleep.
		Scammony has a special nursery, just like Fern and Beryl and Amber have at their houses, but he doesn't sleep in it yet.
		Scammony needs to drink milk and sleep until he gets strong enough to come out for playtime, and in the meantime, Fern will hold him and help him to learn baby things instead, like using his hands the right way.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/kindred/printerfriendly/in31.html (1259 words)

	JALAUN, DISTRICT OF - LoveToKnow Article on JALAUN, DISTRICT OF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is the active principle of the allied drug scammony.
		Jalap is a typical hydragogue purgative, causing the excretion of more fluid than scammony, but producing less stimulation of the muscular wall of the bowel.
		For both reasons it is preferable to scammony.
	94.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JALAUN_DISTRICT_OF.htm (1056 words)

	Roots
		The stems may be short, as in scammony; or long, as in ipecac.
		In most roots the outlines are, —cylindrical, as in krameria; in others it is nearly circular, as in stillingia; or oval, as in calumba; or rectangular, as in Phytolacca; or irregular, as in rumex; or as in cross sections of most cut roots, as in belladonna root..
		The wood of scammony has a mottled surface caused by alternating masses of yellowish conducting tissue and light-colored parenchymatic tissue.
	www.racehorseherbal.com /Dry_Herbs/Roots/roots.html (1717 words)

	Colocynth pulp or bitter apple
		Prepare a tincture of colocynth by macerating the drug with the alcohol for four days; then remove the alcohol by evaporation, add the extract, resin, and soap, and evaporate the mixture to a firm extract, adding the cardamoms near the end of the operation.
		The aloes is melted on a water-bath; and the alcohol, colocynth, and scammony are then added and the mixture heated at a temperature not exceeding 120° until homogeneous, and sets to a brittle mass when cooled.
		Colocynth pulp, in powder, 18; Barbados aloes, in powder, 36; scammony resin, in powder, 36; potassium sulphate, in fine powder, 4.5; oil of cloves, 4.5; distilled water, a sufficient quantity.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /British/156.htm (1141 words)

	Enquire Within -- §§ 732-749 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Manna, tamarinds, castor oil, sulphur, and magnesia are laxatives; senna, rhubarb, jalap, colocynth, buckthorn, aloes, cream of tartar, scammony, calomel, Epsom salts, Glauber's salts, sulphate of potash, and Venice turpentine are purgatives.
		Scammony is a drastic purgative, generally acting quickly and powerfully; sometimes producing nausea, and even vomiting, and being very apt to gripe.
		Dose, as a diuretic, from ten grains to one drachm; as a cathartic, from ten to twelve drachms; as an anthelmintic, from one to two ounces every eight hours, till the worm be ejected.
	www.colourcountry.net /cgi-bin/fetchsec.py?range=732-749 (1087 words)

	Meridian Institute - Home Page
		The two roots differ strikingly in marketable form, Ipomoea being cut when fresh into disks, rapidly dried in the sun, and shipped from Mexico City; internally unlike scammony in not being mottled, in showing regular concentric wood-bundles, in having no stone cells, and calcium oxalate crystals in rosette aggregates rather than monoclinic prisms.
		Has no effect until the duodenum is reached, where with the bile it forms a purgative compound that stimulates vascularity, peristalsis, and profuse secretion from intestinal glands, with no action on biliary flow; usually acts in 4 hours.
		It is less irritating than gamboge, podophyllum, or scammony, but occasionally gripes, nauseates and vomits.
	www.meridianinstitute.com /echerb/Files/classics/culbre1/culb-i.html (2119 words)

	Laxative4
		Ipom.; Ipomcea Root; Orizaba Jalap Root; Mexican Scammony Root; Scammony Root.
		It occurs as brownish, translucent, brittle fragments or as a pale brown powder with a characteristic fragrant odour and an acrid taste.
		Prepared by percolating jalap 8 g., scammony resin 1.5 g., turpeth 1 g., "with alcohol (60%) to 100 ml.
	herbdatanz.com /laxative4.htm (631 words)

	SCAMMONY - Online Information article about SCAMMONY
		Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat.
		The dose of scammonium is 5 to lo grains, of scammony See also:
		Like certain other resins, scammony is inert until it has passed from the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAR_SCY/SCAMMONY.html (514 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Wormseed, Levant - Herb Profile and Information
		It acts as a direct poison to parasites, and is used as a remedy for round-worms, which it rapidly expels; it has also an effect on thread-worms to a lesser degree, but has no action on tapeworms.
		It is usually administered as a powder or in lozenges, not in solution, and is often given with calomel, or compound powder of scammony.
		Santonin lozenges, B.P. Several cases are on record of fatal poisoning by Santonin, and Santonin rendered yellow by exposure to direct sunlight is sometimes preferred, it being stated to be less poisonous.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/w/worlav36.html (712 words)

	Culpeper's Complete Herbal - scamony
		This is the plant which produces the scammony.
		The concrete juice of the root is the scammony of the shops, whereof the best comes from Aleppo; that which comes from Smyrna being fuller of dross and sand.
		The best scammony is fl, resinous, and shining, when in the lump, but of a whitish ash-colour, when powdered, of a pretty strong smell, but of no very hot taste, turning milky when touched with the tongue.
	www.complete-herbal.com /culpepper/scamony.htm (186 words)

	Scammony
		The flowers are snowy white, some with a tint of purple or rose.
		Medicinal virtues: This is the plant which produces Scammony, the gum resin used as a purgative.
		The best Scammony is fl, resinous and shining when in the lump, but of a whitish ash-colour when powdered.
	www.illustratedherbal.com /plants_pages/s/scammony.htm (231 words)

	Bindweed - Herb Database + Images
		The root is the source of the drug Scammony, long used as a purgative.
		Scammony is a gummy resin obtained from the milky juice of the root by cutting the top of the root at an angle about 2 inches below the stalk; the juice is captured and gradually hardens and is sold as Scammony.
		The juice which oozes from the stalks and root hardens into a type of resin and is used as a purge like Scammony.
	earthnotes.tripod.com /bindweed.htm (739 words)

	cook
		This root abounds in a resinous material, which may be obtained from either the fresh or the dried plant.
		Scammony is valued for its resin, which is the medicinal portion always alluded to in Pharmacy, and which passes under the various names of Scammony resin, Virgin scammony, and Lachryma scammony.
		Four ounces of scammony, one ounce of ginger, and one drachm of caulophyllin, make the least griping of all the scammony compounds.
	www.medherb.com /cook/html/CONVOLVULUS_SCAMMONIA.htm (550 words)

	cook
		This root abounds in a resinous material, which may be obtained from either the fresh or the dried plant.
		Scammony is valued for its resin, which is the medicinal portion always alluded to in Pharmacy, and which passes under the various names of Scammony resin, Virgin scammony, and Lachryma scammony.
		Four ounces of scammony, one ounce of ginger, and one drachm of caulophyllin, make the least griping of all the scammony compounds.
	medherb.com /cook/html/CONVOLVULUS_SCAMMONIA.htm (550 words)

	Scammony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The flowers are snowy white, some with a tint of purple or rose.
		Medicinal virtues: This is the plant which produces Scammony, the gum resin used as a purgative.
		The best Scammony is fl, resinous and shining when in the lump, but of a whitish ash-colour when powdered.
	www.magdalin.com /herbal/plants_pages/s/scammony.htm (231 words)

	Inexpressible: only a cub
		And everyone asked about Da's cub, which is just as much under Da's clothes as Scammony is under Tala Lupin's.
		Scammony must be a funny sort of cub to want to nap; Fern hates sleeping.
		But he likes Scammony too much to care if he likes naps or not, so he decides to not think about it anymore.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/kindred/printerfriendly/in9.html (1846 words)

	Allakhazam's World of Warcraft Character Profiles
		Scammony, the battle for Arathi Basin is a battle for resources and territory.
		Key points in the area must be held and operated in order to supply our forces with much needed raw materials and supplies.
		Speak with the spirit of Joseph Redpath when he appears at the town square, then speak with Pamela at her home.
	wow.allakhazam.com /profile.html?912610 (1902 words)

	Skyscript: Interview with Graeme Tobyn about his life as an astrologer and medical herbalist, by Garry Phillpson
		In addition, combined with the difficulty of diagnosis, some increasingly poisonous medicines were being used, and extremely strong purgatives, and bleeding, all that kind of thing.
		When he says that hops purges choler, he doesn't mean in the same way as scammony does.
		Scammony could kill you if given in excessive doses, hops will probably just put you to sleep.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /tobyn.html (8959 words)

	Resin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Many compound resins, however, from their admixturewith essential oils, have distinct and characteristic odours.
		The hard transparent resins, such as the copals, dammars, mastic and sandarach, are principally used for varnishes and cement, while the softer odoriferousoleo-resins (frankincense, turpentine, copaiba) andgum resins containing essential oils (ammoniacum, asafoetida, gamboge, myrrh, and scammony) are morelargely used for therapeutic purposes and incense.
		Synthetic resins are according to DIN 55958 (December 1988) epoxy resins, which are manufactured through polymerization —polyaddition or polycondensation reactions.
	www.therfcc.org /resin-74469.html (453 words)

	Products: Purple Sweet Potato Red Color \| > Food Dyes Coloring : Qingdao Pengyuan Natural Pigment \| Importers.com
		It is a kind of natural edible pigment extracted from scammony purple sweet pota
		It is a kind of natural edible pigment extracted from scammony purple sweet potato.
		The amaranthine powder or liquid color is soluble in water, alcohol and solution of water and alcohol, but insoluble in oil and absolute alcohol.
	www.importers.com /Food_Dyes_Coloring/Exporter/Qingdao_Pengyuan_Natural_Pigment/ID.71107.TP.151469/Purple_Sweet_Potato_Red_Color.html (275 words)

	Chapter Purging Electuaries of The Complete Herbal by Culpeper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		You may take an ounce of it at a time, at night when you go to bed, three hours after a light supper, neither need you keep your chamber next day, unless the weather be very cold, or your body very tender.
		Seeing the dose of Scammony is increased according to the author in this medicine, you may use a less weight of Scammony if you please.
		If you like to take it inwardly, you may take an ounce at night going to bed; in the morning drink a draught of hot posset drink and go about your business.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/66/113/21305/3.html (372 words)

	Gargantua and Pantagruel eBook
		Now to tell you after what manner he was cured of his principal disease.
		I let pass how for a minorative or gentle potion he took four hundred pound weight of colophoniac scammony, six score and eighteen cartloads of cassia, an eleven thousand and nine hundred pound weight of rhubarb, besides other confuse jumblings of sundry drugs.
		Into one of them entered one of his men carrying a lantern and a torch lighted, and so Pantagruel swallowed him down like a little pill.
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