The dried pulp of its unripe, full-grown fruit constitutes the drug colocynth, which is used as a cathartic. ❋ Unknown (1990)
I applied my usual remedies for it, which consisted of colocynth and quinine; but experience has shown me that an excessive use of the same cathartic weakens its effect, and that it would be well for travellers to take with them different medicines to cause proper action in the liver, such as colocynth, calomel, resin of jalap, Epsom salts; and that no quinine should be taken until such medicines shall have prepared the system for its reception. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
“I learned wisdom from the blind who make sure of things by touching them” (as did St. Thomas); and when he ate the colocynth offered by his owner, ❋ Unknown (2006)
The hero of the Romance “Al – Dalhamah” is described as a bitter gourd (colocynth), a viper, a calamity. ❋ Unknown (2006)
My enfeebled stomach, harrowed and irritated with medicinal compounds, with ipecac, colocynth, tartar-emetic, quinine, and such things, protested against the coarse food. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
It is impossible to make any description, either of the most pleasant or of the most unpleasant, of the raspberry or of colocynth. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On the way we were shown pits of coarse sulphur and alum mixed with sand; in the low lands senna and colocynth were growing wild. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For a certain local disease, they use senna or colocynth, anoint the body with sulphur boiled in ghee, and expose it to the sun, or they leave the patient all night in the dew; — abstinence and perspiration generally effect a cure. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sometimes the centre is occupied by an islet of torn trees and stones rolled in heaps, supporting a clump of thick jujube or tall acacia, whilst the lower parts of the beds are overgrown with long lines of lively green colocynth. 29 Here are usually the wells, surrounded by heaps of thorns, from which the leaves have been browsed off, and dwarf sticks that support the water-hide. ❋ Unknown (2003)
One of the honey-eaters, the diet of which ranges from nectar to the juice of one of the native cucumbers, as bitter as colocynth, has become an ardent advocate for the thorough ripening of bananas. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Will on occasion not have the effect of one dose of colocynth. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The ground was luxuriant with colocynth, whose runners and fruits looked festive in the early light. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
He must have had a stomach like a dustbin liner because at least a third of the rum which I'd given him vas a mixture of jalap and colocynth, the most drastic purgatives known to the old nineteenth-century doctors — and they were experts in drastic purgatives, if nothing else. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1981)
Take Socotrine aloes, two drams; colocynth, gamboge, rhubarb, and castile soap, each one dram; cayenne, thirty grains; oil cloves, thirty drops. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Pregnant women are generally affected with heartburn, sickness of a morning, headache, and that troublesome disease, toothache, which accompanies pregnancy; all of which may usually be avoided by keeping the bowels gently open with seidlitz powders, caster oil, or pills of rhubarb, which should be taken occasionally, either alone or in combination with colocynth and soap. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
She then ate one-half a colocynth, which made her terribly sick, causing a bloody diarrhea. ❋ William J. Robinson (N/A)
I spent much indoors time in learning to use water-colours, and got a nice pony to ride, and was a great deal in the air, and very early to go to bed; and took no medicines but tonics and a colocynth pill on occasion. ❋ Giberne Sieveking (N/A)
In order, then, to get the bowels relieved in the first instance, it is well to give five grains of both compound colocynth and compound rhubarb pill at bed-time (this rarely requires to be repeated), then to take a tumblerful of cold water the next morning on waking, and repeat it regularly at the same time each day. ❋ Various (N/A)
Our ragged fellows ran about singing, in search of thorns or long roots, or even the straggling plants of bitter colocynth, as fuel for our cooking-fire. ❋ James Finn (N/A)
Our English plant, the _Bryonia dioica_, purges as actively as colocynth, if too freely administered. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
