This astringent quality likewise renders it an admirable specific against a dysentery or looseness.

To arrest hemorrhage by means of astringent quality.

Nevertheless his youth, aided by the astringent quality of the clear dawn, still struggled sturdily against it.

At the same time, these wines are well appreciated by the native population, especially the dark astringent qualities.

One question brought up was if the bitter, astringent qualities are likely to be recessive among hybrids in the trees which have bitter nuts.

* (* The people of the country attribute to it an astringent quality, and call it tapaculo.)