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Definition of Pichi
1. Noun. Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers; leaves yield a tonic and diuretic.
Group relationships: Fabiana, Genus Fabiana
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pichi
Literary usage of Pichi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"249), concludes from clinical trial, i, that pichi is a diuretic ; 2, that it is
a urinary sedative. In the Therapeutic Gazette, 1888, p. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"RWW] pichi—A REMEDY FOR DISEASES or THE URINARY ORGANS. DR. M. FRIEDLAENDER has
used this remedy in the dose of a teaspoonful of the fluid extract, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"Sweat: cold on forehead ; esp. under toes ; night-sweat, acrid. pichi. Fabiana
imbricata. ... pichi is a solanaceous shrub of South America. ..."
4. Forty years in the medical profession, 1858-1898 by John Janvier Black (1900)
"... Gout—Contracted Kidney—Medicines in Gout—Piperazine and pichi in Gout—Thyroid
Extract causing Gout—Menstrual Gout—Carlsbad—An American Carlsbad—Diabetes ..."
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