scammony in English
noun
1
a plant of the morning glory family, the dried roots of which yield a strong purgative.
For instance, the knowledge of the causal power of scammony to purge red bile arises only after we observe a number of cases where it does this, and so come to form an aestimatio that it does in this or that particular case.
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1. Pinkflower Bindweed Convolvulus nodiflorus aguinaldo blanco Convolvulus pilosellifolius soft Bindweed Convolvulus scammonia scammony Convolvulus tricolor dwarf morning-glory Convolvulus wallichianus Wallich's Bindweed Legal Status