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A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Having the power to increase perspiration.

e and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

t of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

ra of Linnæus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. -- n.

original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific.

merican rutaceous shrub (Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

npowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. Chili salpeter (Chem.), sodium nitrate (distinguished from potassium nitrate, or true salpeter), a white crystalline substance, NaNO3, having a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste. It is obtained b…

A sudorific medicine. Cf. Diaphoretic.