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German
Etymology
Wind (“gas”) + treibend (“driving; producing”)
Adjective
windtreibend (strong nominative masculine singular windtreibender, comparative windtreibender, superlative am windtreibendsten)
- (medicine, uncommon) carminative (capable of inducing the release of gas)
1717, Peter Pomet, “Vom Kramkümmel”, in Der aufrichtige Materialist und Specerey-Händler, Leipzig, page 12:Dieſer Samen wird zu weilen in der Windwaſſerſucht, Tympanites, gebraucht, denn er denen carminativis, windtreibenden Artzneymitteln zugerechnet wird.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2001, Großmutters Hausmittel neu entdeckt, München: ADAC-Verlag, →ISBN, page 396:Lavendel, Lavendelöl¶ Ätherisches Öl wirkt galletreibend, beruhigend, krampflösend, windtreibend.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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