His work on the Calabar bean provides didactic and practical routes for the synthesis of medicinally important compounds. |
The bark of alder buckthorn is removed, cut into small pieces, and dried for one year before being used medicinally. |
Caffeine is a bitter alkaloid found especially in coffee, tea, and kola nuts and used medicinally as a stimulant and diuretic. |
The Chinese use yellow melilot medicinally, use it in cosmetics, and burn it as an incense. |
An analogy would be that, in English folklore, the elder plant has been used in countless different ways medicinally and for food. |
The diuretic action is extremely feeble, and neither the plant nor asparagine is now used medicinally. |