1868: Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon, page 157CAA-APʹIA, Dorsteʹnia Brazilienʹsis seu cordifoʹlia seu placentoïʹdes seu vitelʹla. Order, Urticeæ. The root, according to Piso, is employed as emetic and antidiarrhœic.
Adjective
antidiarrhœic
Obsolete spelling of en
1878: Henri Baillon (author) and Marcus Manuel Hartog (translator), The Natural History of Plants (L. Reeve & co.), volume 5, page 305The embryo is astringent and antidiarrhœic, like the bark and root.