Lexic.us

Definition of Cocculus

1. Noun. Climbing plants or shrubs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocculus

Literary usage of Cocculus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1878)
"However, under the pathogenesis of Cocculus, there is nothing mentioned about ... The mental and head symptoms of Cocculus and Pulsatilla agree in some few ..."

2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1879)
"History—It is commonly asserted that Cocculus Indicus was introduced into Europe ... Cocculus Indicus is not named by the writers of the School of Salerno. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"A similar ramification in the funiculi of the Cycas circinalis has been observed by the author. On the Cocculus Indicus of Commerce. ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"Bitters of Cocculus Indicus. ... paniculata or Cocculus Indicus contain several bitter principles, of which picrotoxin is the most characteristic. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1900)
"Cocculus Indicus. N. 0. Menispermaceae. A tincture is prepared from the ... Cocculus has been used from ancient times as a poison for stupefying fish, ..."

6. A Clinical materia medica by Ernest Albert Farrington (1897)
"That remedy is Cocculus Indicus, The name given to the order has been derived from ... Cocculus Indicus. i. Nerves. I. 2. Organs. Cerebro-spinal. Debility. ..."

7. The American homoeopathic pharmacœia by Joseph T. O'Connor (1883)
"Cocculus In- dicus. Menispermum Cocculus, Linn. Nat. ... A. Cocculus is a strong climbing shrub found in the eastern parts of the Indian Peninsula, ..."

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