Meaning & use
Columbin
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A bitter, crystalline compound extracted from calumba root, once used in traditional medicine as a tonic.
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Nineteenth-century apothecaries prescribed columbin to stimulate a weak appetite.
Chemists isolated columbin from the root long before its structure was fully understood.
A note on using this word
"Columbin" takes its name from calumba (or "columbo") root, an African plant long used in folk medicine for digestive complaints.
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