Sentences with phrase «employed as a stimulant»
Chillies are largely used as a condiment, and also employed as a stimulant and carminative in medicine.
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Prickly ash trees of the Zanthoxylum species are found in China, Japan, and in North America, where the American Indians employed the bark as a general stimulant and a panacea for toothache.
In the tropical countries from whence we procure capsicums, and where their cultivation is of the easiest kind, they are both abundantly used as an article of diet, and are employed as tonics and stimulants, externally as well as internally.