mudar, madar
(məˈdɑː(r))
Also mudhar, mudarrh, muddar, mudir, mador.
[a. Hindī madār.]
a. East Indian name for shrubs of the genus Calotropis, esp. C. gigantea, the root-bark of which yields a valuable diaphoretic medicine and the inner bark of the stem a strong silky fibre known as yercum. Also attrib. b. The medicinal product of the root.
| 1819 Robinson in Med.-Chirurg. Trans. X. 32 The mudar rapidly recruits the constitution, heals the ulcers [etc.]. Ibid. 37 In the first variety I consider Mudarrh..as the sole effectual remedy. 1823 G. Playfair in Trans. Med. & Phys. Soc. Calcutta (1825) I. 86, I prescribed the Madár, to the quantity of five grains twice a day. 1826 Ainslie Mat. Ind. I. 487 Mr. Robinson has written a paper..extolling the mudar root (yercum vayr) as most efficacious. 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 168/2 The Mudar, a plant common in sandy places in many parts of India. 1838 Lindley Flora Med. §1144. 540 Under the names of Mador, Mudar, Akum, and Yercund, the root and bark..are used as..purgatives. 1861 Bentley Man. Bot. 595 Mudar bark, which has been much employed in India in cutaneous affections. 1873 Drury Usef. Plants India (ed. 2) 101 It yields a kind of manna called Mudar sugar. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 339/2 The alstonia..and the mudar gum..have also been recommended as substitutes for gutta percha. |
Hence ˈmudarine, a bitter principle obtained from the root-bark of the mudar.
| 1829 Duncan in Edin. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. July 64 It may form a new principle, and, for convenience, I shall provisionally call it Mudarine. 1873 Drury Useful Pl. India (ed. 2) 100 Mudarine. |