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couchgrass |
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couchgrass, n Latin names: Agropyron repens, Elymus repens, Graminis rhizomo, Triticum repens L.; part used: rhizomes; uses: irrigant, demulcent, antimicrobial, cystitis, urethritis, prostatitis, urinary tract infections, renal gravel, upper respiratory disorders, gout, rheumatism, cough, cirrhosis, tumors, cancer; not used today; precautions: patients with edema caused by heart or kidney conditions. Also called cutch, dog grass, durfa grass, quack grass, quitch grass, Scotch quelch, triticum, twitch-grass, and witch grass. |
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Who in their senses, one wonders, would leave the fertile plains of Lombardy to build a settlement--let alone a city--among these marshy, malarial wastes, on little islets of sand and couchgrass, the playthings of current and tide? |
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