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Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. -- n.

Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met"ic*al*ly, adv.

Tending to check vomiting. -- n.

Same as Antemetic.

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

An anacatharic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.

idus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

ed also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

ryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.

and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

An Arabian tree (Trichilia emetica). The fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.

crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

ng an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

nd of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic ad emetic. [Written also camboge.]

ice, and a tough, fibrous bark, whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is both emetic and cathartic in properties. (b) The variety of common hemp (Cannabis Indica), from which hasheesh is obtained. -- Indian mallow (Bot.), the velvet leaf (Abutilon Avicennæ). See Abutilon. -- Indian meal, ground corn or ma…