colocynth

[Lat. colocynth is; Gr. kolokyn Bot.: The name given to the bitter cucumber, Citrullus colocynth is, called also Cucumis colocyn this. It has unisexual flowers with five stamens, a 3-6 celled ovary, and a cucumber-like fruit with many seeds. It grows in India, Syria, including Palestine, . Him a lay an colocynth: Citrullus ( Cucumis ) Pseudo-colocynth is. " Colocynth is supposed to be the plant termed in the Old Testament (2 Kings, iv. 39) the wild vine (literally the vine of the field), whose fruit the sacred Pakkoth, a word which in our translation is rendered wild gourd. Colocynth was employed by the Greeks at a very early period. Hippo crates employed kolokynthis agria (Cucurbit a sylvestral gourd only in pes saries for bringing on menstruation. Dioscorides gives a good description of colocynth By digesting the watery extract of colocynth in alcohol, and evaporating the tincture, we obtain a ma to which the name of colocynth in has been applied."-Pereira: Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. colocynth pulps.