veratrine
/ver-uh-treen, -trin/US // ˈvɛr əˌtrin, -trɪn //UK // (ˈvɛrəˌtriːn) //
藜芦碱,维拉汀,维拉宁,藜麦碱
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Chemistry, Pharmacology.
- : a white or grayish-white, slightly water-soluble, poisonous mixture of alkaloids obtained by extraction from the seeds of sabadilla and the rhizomes of white hellebore: formerly used in medicine as a counterirritant in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia.
Examples
Gallic acid occurs but seldom in nature; and always united to brucine, veratrine, or lime.
A milder, but still very useful form of the same kind of action, is produced by veratrine-ointment.
Far more useful, in neuralgias generally, is the external application of aconite or of veratrine.
The colchiceæ, from which is obtained veratrine, form an exception among the monocotyledons.
Used as a friction in rheumatism, and the other cases in which veratrine is employed.
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