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(acid) [from decorated blotter paper containing doses of the drug] LSD
Student is American slang for an inexperienced taker of drugs, especially one who takes small or occasional doses.
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[doses of the drug are dripped on a sheet of blotter paper for sale] LSD
Cold turkey is slang for the method of curing drug addiction by the abrupt withdrawal of all doses.
need to take increasingly large doses of some drugs to produce an effect
A drug prepared from the roots of the shrub Piper methysticum. Chewing the root releases active alkaloids similar to nutmeg and sweet flag. A small or moderate dose of one ounce of finely ground kava to ten ounces of water, blended with coconut oil, gives two to four people a mild but definite euphoria. Stimulation is felt at the beginning, and a pleasant sedation without loss of mental powers occurs afterward. The high lasts about two or three hours, often ending in sleep. With larger doses kava can be hallucinogenic and a powerful sedative. As an aphrodisiac or sexual enhancer, kava kava makes some people glow with psychic and genital euphoria. There are no hangovers or unpleasant side effects, but the drink is habit forming if used in excess. Kava kava is legal in the U.S.
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A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.
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A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.
v. t. & i.
To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.
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The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.
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To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
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The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy.
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A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.
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To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
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The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.
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A powder or a paste made from the seeds of black or white mustard, used as a condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic.
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To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
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