Guaiacum (/ˈɡwaɪ.ə.kəm/), sometimes spelled Guajacum, is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of...
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Guaiacum officinale, commonly known as roughbark lignum-vitae, guaiacwood or gaïacwood, is a species of tree in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae, that...
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Lignum vitae (category Guaiacum)
wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as Pockholz or pokhout, from trees of the genus Guaiacum. The trees are indigenous to...
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Guaiacum sanctum, commonly known as holywood, lignum vitae or holywood lignum-vitae, is a species of flowering plant in the creosote bush family, Zygophyllaceae...
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Guaiacum angustifolium is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. Common names include Texas guaiacum, Texas lignum-vitae...
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Guaiacum coulteri is a species of flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae, that is native to western Mexico and Guatemala. Rivers, M.C. (2017). "Guaiacum...
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explorers reached North America in the 16th century. The Spanish encountered guaiacum wood "when they conquered Santo Domingo; it was soon brought back to Europe...
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Boswellia sacra, galbanum from Ferula gummosa, gum guaiacum from the lignum vitae trees of the genus Guaiacum, kauri gum from trees of Agathis australis, hashish...
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purpose. Guaiacum was a popular treatment in the 16th century and was strongly advocated by Ulrich von Hutten and others. Because guaiacum came from...
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used in soap and perfumery. Despite its name it does not come from the Guaiacum tree, but from the palo santo tree (Bulnesia sarmientoi). Oil of guaiac...
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amazonica) India – Indian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) Jamaica – lignum vitae (Guaiacum officinale) Kenya – the tropical orchid Kiribati – Bidens kiribatiensis...
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pork in a wooden mortar and pestle called a pilón (made with mahogany or guaiacum, both native hardwoods) and shaped more or less into a ball and in or alongside...
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'Caesalpinia ferrea) (Brazilian ironwood), Brazil Lignum vitae; Guaiacum officinale, Guaiacum sanctum and Argentine, Paraguay Lignum Vitae, Verawood Bulnesia...
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vitae". They are close relatives of the "true" lignum vitae trees of genus Guaiacum. Bulnesia arborea – Maracaibo lignum vitae; 'True' Verawood Bulnesia bonariensis...
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wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock, prickly...
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with various diagnostic agents used on the urine and stool, for example Guaiacum resin. Povidone-iodine is a chemical complex of the polymer povidone...
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sesquiterpenoid alcohol found in several plants, especially in the oil of guaiacum and cypress pine. It is a crystalline solid that melts at 92 °C. Guaiol...
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ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwageri) Lignum vitae Guaiacwood (Guaiacum officinale) Holywood (Guaiacum sanctum) Takian (Hopea odorata) Black ironwood (Krugiodendron...
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above the door. In his hands, the physician Rangone holds sarsaparilla and guaiacum, two plants which he used to treat syphilis and yellow fever. The reliefs...
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in the Caribbean of which 6,500 are endemic. For example, guaiac wood (Guaiacum officinale), the flower of which is the national flower of Jamaica and...
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a wealthy man receiving treatment for syphilis with the tropical wood guaiacum sometime around 1590. The "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the...
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Ltd, see John C. Kerr Lignum vitae, trade wood from trees of the genus Guaiacum Lignumvitae Key, island in the Florida Keys Vitex lignum-vitae, Australian...
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gradibus et compositionibus receptorum naturalium, 1526. Vom Holtz Guaico (on guaiacum), 1529. Practica, gemacht auff Europen 1529. Von der Frantzösischen kranckheit...
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Dragon's blood (Calamus draco) Elemi Frankincense (Olibanum) Galbanum Guaiacum officinale Guggul Gurjun balsam Imbauba balsam (Cecropia adenopus) Labdanum...
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etc.) may refer to: Lignum vitae, heartwood of tree species of the genus Guaiacum, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas Bulnesia sarmientoi...
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minute. In 1901, it was observed that the compound made the tincture of guaiacum tincture turn blue, a sign of oxygen being released. Around 1905, Loevenhart...
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spines. Some are cultivated as ornamental plants, such as species of the Guaiacum, Zygophyllum, Tribulus, and Larrea genera. King Clone, a creosote bush...
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authors list (link) "Dave Mustaine's Guitars and Gear". Properties of guaiacum spp. http://www.thewoodexplorer.com/maindata/we590.html Wikimedia Commons...
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and later studies by Heinrich Hlasiwetz identified a substance common to guaiacum and creosote that he called creosol, and he determined that creosote contained...
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