walnut, fenugreek and
Colocynth) to determine their effects and possible complications.
Thanks to the miracle of electronics and silicon, one finds that "Citrullus colocynthis, commonly known as the
colocynth, bitter apple, bitter cucumber, egusi, or vine of Sodom (I beg your pardon!) is a viny plant native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia, especially Turkey (especially in regions such as Izmir), Nubia, and Trieste.
Interpretation can only be managed by the cognoscenti in the audience who know that
colocynth and aloe are botanical purgatives, while calomel is a chloride of mercury, all the "uncompounded" ingredients of emetic and laxative pills.
He prescribed it together with aloes, scammony, and extract of
colocynth.' The pills cost five shillings per box.
A compound containing calomel combined with
colocynth, a purgative extracted from the bitter cucumber, was also prescribed frequently.
Antifungal activity of nettle (Urticadiocia L.),
colocynth (Citrulluscolocynthis L.
ciliaris); the
colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis); and the devil's thorn (Tribulus terrestris, Zygophyllaceae).
Bitter apple plants Citrullus colocynthis, also known as bitter cucumber and
colocynth or desert gourd, belong to the family of Cucurbitaceae and have a wide distribution, being commonly found in the sandy lands of India, Arabia, West Asia, and Tropical Africa and in the Mediterranean region (Pravin et al., 2013).
There are, however, no fruits comparable to the watermelons of the Kalahari or the
colocynths (bitter cucumbers) of the Sahara, which are both nutritious and full of water.
Thereupon two men from Yemen approached and suggested that the juice of
colocynths, rubbed into the man's foot-soles, might not make the affliction go away but it might in any case halt the aggravation of the disease.