Sentences with chaulmoogras
- Chaulmoogra was later identified as a source of chaulmoogra oil, an age-old leprosy treatment.
- One of the standard treatments for leprosy has been to inject ethyl-esters of chaulmoogra oil into a muscle with a large bore syringe.
- Tropical chaulmoogra oil comes from the expressed oil of seeds of the chaulmoogra tree.
- Until the advent of sulpha-based drugs, chaulmoogra oil was acknowledged by the international scientific community to be the only medicine known to Western medical science that was effective in treating the disease.
- In the 12th century AD, chaulmoogra oil was imported into China from Cambodia - the native home of the tree from which it is derived.
- Finally, an expedition sent by the United States found the chaulmoogra tree in the forests of Burma.
- This form of treatment was adopted by Dr Durack in Western Australia, who treated him with chaulmoogra oil by mouth.