In traditional Chinese medicine, it is used as an anti-inflammatory and an anodyne; its rhizome hairs are used in Malaysia and China as a styptic for wounds.
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He keeps a utility kit handy on the podium with throat lozenges, sugar-free cough drops, Band-Aids and a styptic stick to staunch blood from a last-minute shaving nick.
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A "'styptic "'( also spelled "'stiptic "') is a specific type of antihemorrhagic agent that works by contracting tissue to seal injured blood vessels.
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Apart from pharmaceuticals, the leaves of " Nuphar " are reported to contain sufficient concentrations of tannin to have been widely used for tanning and dyeing leather, and also as a styptic for staunching bleeding.
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The word, like the older term " animi ", appears to have been derived from " enhaemon " ( ??????? ) : the name of a styptic medicine said by Pliny to contain tears exuded by the olive tree of Arabia.
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He also made known the peculiar properties of amyl nitrite, a drug which was largely used in the treatment of angina pectoris, and he introduced the bromides of quinine, iron and strychnia, ozonized ether, styptic and iodized colloid, hydrogen peroxide, and sodium ethoxide, substances which were soon largely used by the medical profession.
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In 1863, he made known the peculiar properties of amyl nitrite, a drug which was largely used in the treatment of breast-pang ( angina pectoris ), and he introduced the bromides of quinine, iron and strychnia, ozonized ether, styptic and iodized colloid, peroxide of hydrogen, and ethylate of soda, substances which were soon largely used by the medical profession.
