Jalap has been cultivated for many years in India, chiefly at Ootacamund, and grows there as easily as a yam, often producing clusters of tubers weighing over 9 lb; but these, as they differ in appearance from the commercial article, have not as yet obtained a place in the English market.
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After experimenting, Rush decided that a powder of ten grains of calomel ( mercury ) and ten grains of the cathartic drug jalap ( the poisonous root of a Mexican plant, " Ipomoea purga ", related to the morning glory, which was dried and powdered before ingesting ) would create the desired elimination he was seeking.
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Her words are as old as the times she is picturing, as in " jalap, " the dried root of a Mexican vine of the morning glory family formerly used as a purgative, or " valerian " tea, which used a drug made from the heliotrope and which also possibly provided a little mind-altering recreation.
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Some species are renowned for their properties in folk medicine and herbalism; for example Vera Cruz jalap ( " stool . " Kiribadu Ala " ( giant potato, " I . mauritiana " ) is one of the many ingredients of " chyawanprash ", the ancient Ayurvedic tonic called " the elixir of life " for its wide-ranging properties.
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As well as vanilla, Thi�ry de Menonville brought with him to Saint Domingue jalap of Mexico, indigo seeds of Guatemala, and cotton seeds from Veracruz; in his travels he also noted the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen there, dahlias as they turned out to be, in his official report, published in 1787, after his death, by the academy at Cap-Fran�aise.
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