windtreibend

German

Etymology

Wind (gas) + treibend (driving; producing)

Adjective

windtreibend (strong nominative masculine singular windtreibender, comparative windtreibender, superlative am windtreibendsten)

  1. (medicine, uncommon) carminative (capable of inducing the release of gas)
    • 1717, Peter Pomet, “Vom Kramkümmel”, in Der aufrichtige Materialist und Specerey-Händler, Leipzig, page 12:
      Dieſer Samen wird zu weilen in der Windwaſſerſucht, Tympanites, gebraucht, denn er denen carminativis, windtreibenden Artzneymitteln zugerechnet wird.
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    • 2001, Großmutters Hausmittel neu entdeckt, München: ADAC-Verlag, →ISBN, page 396:
      Lavendel, Lavendelöl¶ Ätherisches Öl wirkt galletreibend, beruhigend, krampflösend, windtreibend.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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