vulnerary
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The urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Leaves.—These are recommended as aperient and vulnerary, as also in gouty and rheumatic pains.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Bellis perennis or daisy, formerly called consolida, on account of its vulnerary properties; the roots and leaves were used in wound drinks, and were considered efficacious in removing extravasated blood from bruises, etc.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
This part of the tea is in its nature particularly serviceable in all cases where vulnerary medicines are requisite.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
It is said the hogs in Jamaica when wounded rub the injured part against the tree so as to cover it with the gum, which possesses vulnerary properties; hence its name.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
Wound′wort, a name applied to several plants of popular repute as vulneraries, as the kidney-vetch, &c.: a plant of genus Stachys, the marsh or clown's woundwort.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The Leaves.—They have a subtile subacrid taste, and are recommended as vulneraries, and in asthmas and hectic fevers, and such disorders as are occasioned by drinking cold liquors when the body has been much heated.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
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