bitter tonic

It tasted to him like the bitter tonic the district nurse had given him one spring.

People take canella for colds, poor circulation, and as a bitter tonic.

A bitter tonic made from the dandelion root is also used as a laxative.

Cnicin is used as a bitter tonic and the bitterness value is approximately 1,500.

Later, he calls attention to its properties as a bitter tonic, and as a local wash for ophthalmia.

It is a bitter tonic and aromatic.

This book is an excellent introduction to the bitter tonic of Mary Wesley's fictive imagination.

"Professional jealousy is a bitter tonic, eh, Prime Factor?"

The root bark is also used, administered as astringent, bitter tonic, stomachic and anodyne.

Bitter tonic for hindsight.

It is also used to improve appetite, increase urine flow, start the flow of breast milk, as a bitter tonic, and for indigestion.

The Bitter Tonic is an example of the type of work that depicts such responses, in this case the sense of taste.

The root is anthelmintic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, bitter tonic, cholagogue, emmenagogue, febrifuge, refrigerant, stomachic.

Bark is used for cooling (ayurvedha and siddha medicinal terms), bitter tonic, anthelmintic, febrifuge, diarrhea, Small pox, Astringent.

The herb is the well-known drug Kalmegh 'green chiretta', and forms the principal ingredient of a household medicine ('alui'), used as a bitter tonic and febrifuge.

Herbalists today consider goldenseal an alterative, anti-catarrhal, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, astringent, bitter tonic, laxative, anti-diabetic and muscular stimulant.

The essential oil produced from the dried roots of Curcuma zedoaria is used in perfumery and soap fabrication, as well as an ingredient in bitter tonics.

Long Dan Cao is used as a bitter tonic in Chinese herbalism where it promotes digestive secretions and treats a range of illnesses associated with the liver.

Coptis teeta is used as a medicinal herb in China and the Himalayan regions of India where it is used as a bitter tonic for dyspepsia.

Oregon grape is used for stomach ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), stomach upset, as a bitter tonic, to treat infections, and to cleanse the bowels.

"Red Meat" has run in The Onion since 1993, and in other alternative weeklies since 1989, and the strip is presented here quite consciously as a bracing, bitter tonic - the antidote to comics-page malaise, albeit one that might kill before it cures.