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- Convolvulus_scammonia abstract "Convolvulus scammonia, scammony, is a bindweed native to the countries of the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin; it grows in bushy waste places, from Syria in the south to the Crimea in the north, its range extending westward to the Greek islands, but not to northern Africa or Italy. It is a twining perennial, bearing flowers like those of Convolvulus arvensis, and having irregularly arrow-shaped leaves and a thick fleshy root. The dried juice, virgin scammony, obtained by incision of the living root, has been used in medicine as scammonium, but the variable quality of the drug has led to the employment of scammoniae resina, which is obtained from the dried root by digestion with alcohol.The active principle is the glucoside scammonin or jalapin, C34H114O6. The dose of scammonium is 5 to 10 grains, of scammony resin 3 to 8 grains. Like certain other resins, scammony is inert until it has passed from the stomach into the duodenum, where it meets the bile, a chemical reaction occurring between it and the taurocholate and glycocholate of sodium, whereby it is converted into a powerful purgative. Its action is essentially that of a hydragogue, and is exercised upon practically the entire length of the alimentary canal. The drug is not a cholagogue, nor does it markedly affect the muscular coat of the bowel, but it causes a great increase of secretion from the intestinal glands. It acts in about four hours. In large doses it is, of course, a violent gastrointestinal irritant. In consonance with the statement that scammony acts only after admixture with the bile, is the fact that hypodermic or intravenous injection of the drug produces no purgation, or indeed any other result. The drug frequently kills both roundworm and tapeworm, especially the former, and is therefore an anthelmintic. It is not largely used, but is very effective in the treatment of severe constipation, especially in children.".
- Convolvulus_scammonia binomialAuthority Carl_Linnaeus.
- Convolvulus_scammonia class Eudicots.
- Convolvulus_scammonia division Flowering_plant.
- Convolvulus_scammonia family Convolvulaceae.
- Convolvulus_scammonia genus Convolvulus.
- Convolvulus_scammonia kingdom Plant.
- Convolvulus_scammonia order Asterids.
- Convolvulus_scammonia order Solanales.
- Convolvulus_scammonia thumbnail Convolvulus_scammonia_-_Köhler–s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-046.jpg?width=300.
- Convolvulus_scammonia wikiPageID "1386635".
- Convolvulus_scammonia wikiPageRevisionID "580567993".
- Convolvulus_scammonia binomial "Convolvulus scammonia".
- Convolvulus_scammonia binomialAuthority Carl_Linnaeus.
- Convolvulus_scammonia familia Convolvulaceae.
- Convolvulus_scammonia genus "Convolvulus".
- Convolvulus_scammonia name "Scammony".
- Convolvulus_scammonia ordo Solanales.
- Convolvulus_scammonia regnum Plant.
- Convolvulus_scammonia species "C. scammonia".
- Convolvulus_scammonia unrankedClassis Eudicots.
- Convolvulus_scammonia unrankedDivisio Flowering_plant.
- Convolvulus_scammonia unrankedOrdo Asterids.
- Convolvulus_scammonia subject Category:Convolvulus.
- Convolvulus_scammonia subject Category:Flora_of_Lebanon.
- Convolvulus_scammonia subject Category:Medicinal_plants.
- Convolvulus_scammonia subject Category:Plants_described_in_1753.
- Convolvulus_scammonia subject Category:Resins.
- Convolvulus_scammonia type Eukaryote.
- Convolvulus_scammonia type Plant.
- Convolvulus_scammonia type Species.
- Convolvulus_scammonia type Organism.
- Convolvulus_scammonia comment "Convolvulus scammonia, scammony, is a bindweed native to the countries of the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin; it grows in bushy waste places, from Syria in the south to the Crimea in the north, its range extending westward to the Greek islands, but not to northern Africa or Italy. It is a twining perennial, bearing flowers like those of Convolvulus arvensis, and having irregularly arrow-shaped leaves and a thick fleshy root.".
- Convolvulus_scammonia label "Convolvulus scammonia".
- Convolvulus_scammonia label "Convolvulus scammonia".
- Convolvulus_scammonia label "Convolvulus scammonia".
- Convolvulus_scammonia label "Scammonée".
- Convolvulus_scammonia label "محمودة".
- Convolvulus_scammonia sameAs Convolvulus_scammonia.
- Convolvulus_scammonia sameAs Convolvulus_scammonia.
- Convolvulus_scammonia sameAs Scammonée.
- Convolvulus_scammonia sameAs m.04ygnx.
- Convolvulus_scammonia sameAs Q310388.
- Convolvulus_scammonia sameAs Q310388.
- Convolvulus_scammonia wasDerivedFrom Convolvulus_scammonia?oldid=580567993.
- Convolvulus_scammonia depiction Convolvulus_scammonia_-_Köhler–s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-046.jpg.
- Convolvulus_scammonia isPrimaryTopicOf Convolvulus_scammonia.
- Convolvulus_scammonia name "Scammony".