flatulency
Americannoun
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Ginger tea is a useful remedy for removing colic and flatulency, and is safer and better adapted to the animal economy, where stimulants are indicated, than alcoholic preparations.
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Now the wines which have been very carefully prepared with sea-water never cause headaches; and they open the bowels, and sometimes gripe the stomach, and produce flatulency, and assist in the digestion of food.
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In his opinion the most frequent cause for such irregularity is flatulency and disturbance of digestion generally.
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It is used in medicine as an anti-spasmodic, and in cases of flatulency, in hysteric paroxysms, and other nervous affections.
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It is also useful in the flatulency of the aged, where it prevents the development of gas, and has a marked effect on anorexia.
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