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Definition of Cassia fistula

1. Noun. Deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia.

Medical Definition of Cassia fistula

1. The dried ripe fruit of Cassia fistula, used as a laxative. Synonym: purging cassia. (05 Mar 2000)

Literary usage of Cassia fistula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 by James Bruce (1804)
"THE cassia fistula is another tree, concerning which many ill-founded errors ... The cassia fistula grows tall and straight, equal to one of our ash trees ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1852)
"Among laxative and resolvent medicines none is more frequently employed in the East than cassia fistula administered in the form of decoction, ..."

3. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1899)
"cassia fistula (USP), purging Cassia, the fruit of cassia fistula. The pulp, Cassiae Pulpa (В. Р.), contains considerable quantities of sugar. ..."

4. A Manual of materia medica and pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"2. Tamarindus. 3. Haematoxylon. •í. Copaiba. cassia fistula. cassia fistula. cassia fistula, Linné. ..."

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