carminative

Some examples for oils and spices with carminative action are:

Pepper is used in medicine as a carminative stimulant.

Love, for example, is essentially carminative.

Bitter digestifs typically contain carminative herbs, which are thought to aid digestion.

He had taken carminative to mean "productive of a warm glow", but then thought to look it up, and so deleted it.

Pennyroyal oil is used for its medicinal properties, and was thought by the pioneers to be valuable as a carminative remedy.

The plant is carminative and emetic.

It was also used as a carminative herb by Native Americans to treat excessive flatulence.

Cloves are used as a carminative, to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve peristalsis.

Additionally it is common in herbal medicine, as it is carminative and astringent.

Anethole is responsible for the carminative action.

Winter savory has been purported to have antiseptic, aromatic, carminative, and digestive benefits.

In the stomach, the effect is carminative, relaxing the gastric sphincter and encouraging eructation (belching).

It has carminative, antituberculosis and stimulant properties.

It is widely employed in modern herbal medicine as its sedative, laxative, diuretic, and carminative properties.

Spearmint is grown for its aromatic and carminative oil, referred to as 'oil of spearmint'.

From boyhood the romantic, poetically inclined hero, Denis Stone, found the word carminative particularly evocative.

And now, before me lies the rest of my life--a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.

They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

The bulb has carminative, expectorant, sedative, antitussive, pectoral and tonic qualities.

Marsala is rosily, downily carminative; gin pricks and refreshes while it warms.

Pleurisy root is diaphoretic, anti-spasmodic, carminative, and anti-inflammatory.

Higgins always opened each Boxing Day morning and I was dispatched to buy their own brand of 'Carminative Cordial'.

It was used for its carminative (suppressing cramps and flatulence) and emmenagogic (enhancing pelvic blood flow) properties.

It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.