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Expectorant   Listen
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Expectorant  adj.  (Med.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.





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"Expectorant" Quotes from Famous Books



... sativum. GARLIC. The Root. L. E. D.—This pungent root warms and stimulates the solids, and attenuates tenacious juices. Hence in cold leucophelgmatic habits it proves a powerful expectorant, diuretic, and emmenagogue; and, if the patient is kept warm, sudorific. In humoral asthmas, and catarrhous disorders of the breast, in some scurvies, flatulent colics, hysterical and other diseases proceeding from laxity of the solids, and cold sluggish indisposition of the fluids, ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury


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