Calumba definition

(medicine, archaic) The bitter root of a plant (Jateorhiza calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous to Mozambique, and used as a tonic and antiseptic.
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Origin of calumba

  • From its native name in Mozambique.

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Calumba Sentence Examples

  • The wood contains no tannin, and for this reason quassia, like chiretta and calumba, may be preserved with iron.

  • Substances containing tannic or gallic acid turn black when compounded with a ferric salt, so it cannot be used in combination with vegetable astringents except with the infusion of quassia or calumba.

  • The infusion is useful as a bitter tonic - a group of substances of which calumba is the type - and is also a very efficient anthelmintic for the threadworm (Oxyuris vermicularis).

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