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small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America

small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America

The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.

The heart wood or the resin of the offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.

Resin from wood of Guajacum officinale L. or G. sanctum L., family Zygophyllaceae. Used as clinical reagent for occult blood. (From Merck Index, 11th ed)

Expectorant and alterative resin.

A genus of trees in the W. Indies, that yield a greenish resin used in medicine.

The resin and the wood are both used in medicine. Their odour is slightly fragrant; taste warm and bitter, of the resin more so than of the wood. The resin is concrete, brittle; colour, externally, greenish; internally grayish. Water dissolves about one-tenth; alcohol 95 parts. It is soluble, also, in liquor potassae 15 parts, liquor ammonias 38 parts. The powder is whitish, bat changes green in the air. The base of the guaiacum is a peculiar resin, called Guaiacine. Guaiacum is stimulant and diaphoretic; and in large doses, purgative. It is administered in chronic rheumatism, gout, cutaneous diseases, and the sequelae of syphilis. Dose of resin, gr. v to xx :-to purge, gr. xx to xl. Guaiacum sanctum, and G. angustifolium have the same virtues as G. officinale.

A genus of resinous trees or shrubs.

Of the U. S. Ph., Guaiacum officinale; also guaiac resin.

n. [Spanish] A genus of small crooked trees growing in several of the West Indian Islands.

A physical wood.