stomachic

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Here I first saw the tree, or rather shrub, which bears the balm of Gilead, erst so celebrated for its tonic and stomachic properties.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

The stomachic causes which, as time went on, produced melancholy and dense, black depression in me, probably accounted for his eruptions of violent irascibility.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

Germander, jėr′man-dėr, n. a large genus of labiate herbs with aromatic, bitter, and stomachic properties.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Garlic possesses stimulant and stomachic properties, and was of old, as still sometimes now, employed as a medicinal remedy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Canella Bark is an aromatic stimulant, and forms a good stomachic.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George