stomachic

stomachic

English

Alternative forms

• stomachick (obsolete)

Etymology

Latin stomachicus.

Adjective

stomachic (comparative more stomachic, superlative most stomachic)

1. Of or relating to the stomach.
   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 107:

     This will usefully blunt the keenness of the stomachic ferment.

2. Beneficial to the stomach or to digestion.

Noun

stomachic (plural stomachics)

1. A medicine for the stomach.
   • 1844, Richard Dennis Hoblyn, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences‎:

     CALUMBÆ RADIX (Kalumbo, Portuguese). The root of the Cocculus palmatus, one of our most useful stomachics and tonics. It contains a bitter principle, called calumbin.