| Rauwolfia |
any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives
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| rauwolfia serpentina |
[Leonhard Rauwolf, Ger. botanist, 1535?1596] The dried roots of a tropical shrub of the family Apocynaceae, whose extracts are potent hypotensive and sedative drugs. Derivatives include reserpine, serpentine, and serpentini
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