purging cassia

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Noun1.purging cassia - deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinallypurging cassia - deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia
canafistola, canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree
cassia - any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods
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'coins' ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE EN ASCII]) of purging cassia" should be corrected to "ten scales of purging cassia." The term [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE EN ASCII] is found in Maimonides, On the Regimen of Health, ch.
11, "'coins' of purging cassia" should be corrected to "scales of purging cassia"; see supra, Prescription 11, trans.
5-6 is "fennel, ten kernels; strain over ten dirhams of the scales of purging cassia" (cf.
On editing medical fragments from the Cairo Geniza
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