Home Remedies

INDEX
CONTENTS
Preface
Introductory: The Indian Medicinal Herbs
CHAPTER I
1.Abrus
Description
Syrup Abrus. Co
Uses of Leaves
Abrus Leaves Extract
Cooling Bathing Oil
Uses of Seed
2.Acacia Arabica
Description
The Gum and the Twig
Babul Bark Decoction
3.Agati Grandiflora
The Uses of Leaves
The Uses of Juice
CHAPTER II
4.Ajowan
Ajowan: It’s Usefulness
Its Properties and Preparations
5.Aloes
Its Varieties
It’s Properties & Uses

6.Alum
Description
Uses of Alum
7.Amla
Description
Amla Sherbet
A Laxative
8.Anise
Digestive Powder
Aqua Anise
For Cough
A Digestive Power
A Gentle Laxative
9.Arai Keerai
Introductory
Uses of Arai Keerai
CHAPTER III
10.Asafoetida
Some Particulars
For Wind and Colic Bowels
Asafoetida Enema
For Hysteria
A Good Digestive Powder
Asafoetida Ear Drops
For Scorpion Sting

11.Asoka
Description
For Dysentery
Asoka Decoction
Asokarishta (Asokamritam)
Asoka Ghrita
12.Astercantha Longifolia
Description
Kokilaksha Decoction
Kokilaksha Infusion
Aphrodisiac Tonic
13.Aswagandha
Description
Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-1
Aswagandha Decoction
Aswagandha Paste
Aswaagandhadi Pills 5-Grains
Aswagandha Arishta-1
Aswagandha Arishta-2
Aswagandhi Ghritam
Aswagandha Lehyam
14.Atis or Atees
Description
Atis Powder
Atis with Sugar
Atis with Honey
Atis Co. Decoction
Compound Atis Powder
15.Babchi Seeds
A Reputed Ayurvedic Medicine For Leucoderma
The Seeds, The Oil, The Tablet
16.Barley
A Nutritive Food for the Anaemic
Manifold Utility of Barley Water
Pearl Barley and the Powder
17.Bel Fruit
Uses of the Half-Ripe Fruit
Uses of the Unripe Fruit
The Pulp, The Leaf & The Root
Prescriptions
CHAPTER VI
18.Betel Leaf
Uses of the Leaf
Betel Poultice
Betel Leaf-Ginger Juice
Songsters’ Friend
Betel Juice and Golochan
Betel Decoction
Betel Suppository
19.Betel Nut
Uses
Powder for Diarrhoea
Areca Nut Decoction
Areca Nut Tooth Powder
Compound Areca Nut Tooth Powder
Areca Root Decoction
For Tape-Worm
For Round and Thread-Worms
20.Bilwa Tree
Its Properties
Its Uses
Parts Used
Medical Preparations
CHAPTER VII
21.Black Pepper
Properties and Uses
Cholera Pill
Digestive Powder
Pepper Confection
Pepper Infusion
Pepper Tulsi Tea
For Growing Hair
22.Bonduc Nut
Description
Bonduc Seed Powder

Bonduc Seed Tooth-powder
Bonduc Seed Powder with Asafoetida
Bonduc Leaf Poultice
23.Borax
Description and Uses
Glycerine-Boracis
Mel Boracis
Plain Borax
Borax Dehydrated
CHAPTER VIII
24.Butea Seeds-I
The Leaf and the Seed
For Round-worm, Tape-worm, Ulcers
25.Butea Seeds-II
The Powder, The Leaves and The Gum
For Cobra Poison
Bark Decoction
Decoction of Butea Leaves
Butea Root (Palas-ka-ark)
Butea Bark (For Snake Bite)
Butea Flower
Butea Gum Powder (Bengal Kino)
Butea Leaf
26.Buttermilk
Description
Its Medicinal Qualities

Properties and Uses
CHAPTER IX
27.Camphor
An Anaphrodisiac
An antigalactagogue
An Antiseptic
For Pains
An Anti-Spasmodic
The Many Uses
28.Capsicum
Properties and Contents
Capsicum Gargle
Capsicum Pill
Capsicum Decoction
Capsicum Lozenge
Capsicum Liniment
Capsicum Powder
Capsicum Ointment
29. Caraway Seeds
Caraway Digestive Powder
Pancha-Deepagni Lehiam
Caraway Water
Digestive Powder
CHAPTER X
30. Cardamom
Digestive Powder—I
Cardamom Decoction
Digestive Powder—II
Compound Cardamom Powder
Cardamom Ghee
Cardamom Co. Pill
31. Cassia Alata
Dadmurdan Ointment
Dadmurdan Paste
Dadmurdan Oil
Preparation for Many Uses
32. Castor Oil
Castor Oil Poultice
Castor Oil Emulsion
Castor Oil with Tr. Opium
Castor Oil Eye Drops
As a Poultice
The Three Ghee
CHAPTER XI
33. Catechu
Description
Tincture Catechu
Catechu Powder
Catechu Compound Infusion
For Diarrhoea in Children
A Good Dentifrice
Catechu Infusion
Catechu Co. Ointment
34. Chaulmoogra Oil
Uses and Some Instructions
Chaulmoogra Co. Emulsion
Chaulmoogra Ointment—I
Chaulmoogra Ointment—II
Chaulmoogra Tonic
Chaulmoogra Pill
Plain Chaulmoogra Emulsion
35. Chiretta
Description
Uses
Chiretta Infusion—H
Chiretta Infusion—Ill
Chiretta Infusion—IV
CHAPTER XII
36. Cinnamon
Properties and Uses
Compound Cinnamon Powder
Cinnamon Decoction
Cinnamon and Catechu Decoction
Cinnamon and Catechu Powder
37. Cloves
Properties, Uses and Preparations
Infusion of Cloves
A Good Purgative
Cloves Chiretta Tonic
Compound Cloves Powder
Cloves Triphala Powder
38. Cocculus Indicus
Description
For Itching Skin
For Intravenous Injection
39. Coriander Seeds
Description
Uses of coriander Leaf
Coriander Infusion
Coriander Coffee
Coriander Co. Powder
Oil of Coriander
40. Country Fig
Uses of Fig Fruit
41. Country Gooseberry
Description
Leaf, Seed and Fruit
Gooseberry Juice
Gooseberry Sherbet
For Vomiting
Gooseberry Chutney
Gooseberry Patchadie
To relieve Constipation
CHAPTER XIV
42. Country Ipecacuantia Tylophora
Description
Uses of Powdered Dried Leaves
43. Country Sarsaparilla
Its Importance Emphasised in Ayurvedic Scriptures
Its Utility in Many Diseases
Sarsaparilla Coffee-1
Sarsaparilla Coffee-2
Sarsaparilla Drink
Sarsaparilla Sherbet
Saribadyarishta
Sariva Quath (decoction)
44. Croton Seeds
Croton Pill
Croton Oil Liniment
How to Purify Croton
45. Cubebs
Description and the Uses
Cubebs Co. Powder-1
Cubebs Co. Powder-2
CHAPTER XV
46.Dhatura
Properties, Varieties and Uses
Fr inhalation in Asthma
Dhatura Cigarette
Dhatura Fomentaion
Dhatura Poultice
Dhatura Liniment
47.Dill Seeds
Dill Water
Dill and Lime Water
D.L.A. Water
Dill Flower Decction
For Confinement Women
Dill Leaf Poltice
Dill Leaf Powder
Dill Juice
48.Dried Ginger
Aromatic, Stimulant and Carminative
Uses and Preprations
CHAPTER XVI
49. Edible Hibiscus
Description, Properties and Uses
Lady's Finger Decoction
50. Essence of Ginger
Its Colour and Its Uses
51. Fenugreek
Methi Leaf
Confection of Leaf
Methi Decoction
Methi Seeds
Methi Laddu
Methi Seeds with Rice
Methi Soup or Kuzhambhu
CHAPTER XVII
52. Four o'clock Flower
Derivation of the Name
The Leaf a Deobstruent, the Root a Laxative
Preparations and Uses
53. Fresh Ginger
Ginger with Milk
Ginger Juice Preparation
Allopaths and Ginger Preparations
Kitchen & Some Common Uses of Ginger
54. Galangal
Its Two Varieties and Its Uses
Galangal Powder
Galangal Infusion
Galangal Decoction
CHAPTER XVIII
55. Galls or Galla
Description
Three Varieties and Many Uses
Gall Decoction
Compound Gall Powder

Compound Gall Pill
Gall and Ghee Ointment
Gall Gargle
Plain Gall Powder
Gall Snuff
Gall and Benzoin Ointment
For Intermittent Fever
Gall and Chiretta
Tannic Acid
Tannic Acid Ointment
56. Garjan Oil
Characteristics & Effective Uses
Garjan Oil Emulsion—I
Garjan Oil Emulsion—II
Garjan Oil Ointment
57. Garlic
Properties of Garlic
Uses of Garlic
Ear Drops
Dysentery Confection
Liniment
Garlic Decoction
58. Gulancha
Description
Beneficial Effects of Tinospore
Gulancha Compound Infusion

Sat-Gilo or Giloka-sat
Gulancha Infusion
Gulancha Decoction
Gulancha-Chiretta Decoction
CHAPTER XIX
59. Holy Basil
Religion and Holy Basil
The Black and the White
Properties of Leaves
The Uses of Leaves
Insect-bite and Tulasit
The Tea, the Oil the Seeds
60. Honey
Value of Honey for Medicine Chest
Glucose and Laevulose in Honey
Mel Borax
Oxymel
The Morning Drink
A Substitute for Sugar and Useful in Burns
61. Indian Acalypha
Description
Its Properties and Medicinal Purposes
Beneficial in Chronic Bronchitis
Juice of the Leaves: An Emetic
Powder Useful in Cough
Uses of the Juice and the Decoction

Paste of the Leaves
CHAPTER XX
62. Indian Parselanen
Description
Uses of the Juice and the Paste
63.Indian Pennywort-I
A Very Precious Herb
Uses of the Powder
The Brahmi Drink
The Juice and Powder
Decoction of the Entire Plant
The Paste and the Juice
Indian Pennywort-II
Pennywort Pills
Pennywort Poultice
For Diarrhoea of Children
Pennywort Co. piils
Pennywort Decoction
Pennywort Leaves Powder
For Leprosy
Pennywort Co. Decoction
Juice and Milk
Pennywort Ointment
65. Isafgul
The Preparation
For Dysentery and Diarrhoea

A Special Preparation
CHAPTER XXI
66. Jatamanji
The Uses
The Two Varieties
Infusion Jatamanji
Epilepsy-Hysteria Mixture
Jatamanji Co. Powder
For Grey Hair
67. Kala-Dana
Purgative Powder
Fever Powder
68. Kamela
Uses
For Tapeworm, etc.
For Ringworm, etc.
69. Kandang Kathri
Uses
Juice Boiled with Mustard Oil
Juice Boiled with Linseed Oil
Juice Boiled with Almond Oil
Seeds and the Fruit
CHAPTER XXII
70. Kuppameni
Description
Therapeutic Uses
71. Kurchi
Description
Kurchi Infusion
Kurchi Powder
72.Lawsonia Alba
The Properties
The Uses
The Flowers, Leaves and the Bark
73.Lemon-Grass Oil
Description
Uses
Emulsion
A Good Liniment
CHAPTER XXIII
74.Lime Fruit
Uses of the Fruit—I
Uses of the Juice—I
Uses of the Fruit—II
Uses of the Juice—II
Lemonade
75. Linseed
Uses of the Leaf, the Seed and the Flower
Linseed Oil
Linseed Tea
Linseed Poultice
Carron Oil
Linseed and Sugar
Linseed Confection
Linseed Lehiam
76. Liquorice
Constituents and Preparations
Syrup of Liquorice
Liquorice Lozenge
Liquorice Pill
Liquorice Extract
77. Long Pepper (Pipul)
Uses
Long Pepper with Myrobalan
Cough Powder
Pipul Infusion
A Good Digestive Powder
Pipul with Honey
Pipul with Milk
Pipul Confection
CHAPTER XXIV
78. Malabar Night Shade
Description
Uses
79.Manathakkali
The Uses of the Fruit and Leaf
Juice and Decoction of the Leaf

80. Mint
Varieties of Mint
Its Uses
Pudina Tel and Its Utilities
81. Moringa
The Root, Flower and the Bark
Murungai Infusion
The Leaves and Their Uses
Utility of the Flower, Fruit and the Gum
CHAPTER XXV
82. Mudar
Mudar Root-Bark
Mudar Powder
Mudar Leaf
Mudar Flower
83. Mustard
The Uses
Its Utilities in Foot-Bath
Mustard Plaster
84. Myrobalan
Description, Properties and Uses
A Safe and Gentle Laxative
Triphala, Choorna
A Good Laxative
Myrobalan Decoction
85. Neem (Margosa)

The Properties and the Uses
Neem Decoction
Neem Powder
Neem Poultice
Neem Leaf
Children's Friend
Neem Flower Chutney
Neem Flower Rasam
Neem Bark Decoction
86. Nutmeg
Nutmeg Co. Powder
Pulvis Nutmeg Compound
CHAPTER XXVI
87. Opium
Description
Properties and Uses
Allopathic Preparations
Instructions for Uses
Compound Opium Powder
Gall and Opium Ointment
Poppy Heads Fomentation
88. Papaya
The Fruit and the Milky Fluid
The Digestive Powder

The Digestive Drink
The Uses of Ripe and Unripe Fruit
The Utility of the Leaves
89. Papaya—II
Papaya Juice with Honey
Papaya Juice with Sugar
Papaya Juice with Milk
Papain
For Ringworm
Papaya Leaf Poultice
90. Peepul Tree
Description
The Uses
Powder
Dusting Powder
Decoction
Infusion
Ash of the Bark
91. Pellyworth Root
Compound Pellyworth Powder
CHAPTER XXVII
92. Physic-nut Plant
Description and the Properties
The Utility of Leaves and Milk
The Uses of the Oil

The Stick and the Root-bark
93. Pine Apple
The Properties of Leaf and Fruit
The Uses of the Fruit
94. Plantain
Description
The Flower
The Fruit
The Leaf
Plantain Fruit with Milk
Plantain with Tamarind
95. Pomegranate
Properties
Pomegranate Decoction
Pomegranate and Kurchi Decoction
Pomegranate Decoction with Alum
Root-Bark Decoction
The Uses
CHAPTER XXVIII
96. Ponnangkani
Description
97. Ptercarpus Marsupium
Description
Uses of the Timber
Kino from the Bark

The Leaves
Germination and Growth of the Tree
A Piece of Wood and the Drink
98. Pulichakkerai
Properties and Uses
Juice of the Flower
CHAPTER XXIX
99. Rice
Varieties of Rice and Properties
For External Use
For Internal Use
100. Salt
Salt Oil
Salt Gargle
Salt as an Emetic
101.Sandal Wood
Uses
Sandal Wood Oil
102. Sapota
For Blood Enrichment
103. Senna
Description
Uses
Method of Preparation
For Children
CHAPTER XXX
104. Sesamum
Uses of Leaves
Uses of the Seeds
Uses of the Oil of Sesamum—I
Uses of the Oil of Sesamum—II
105. Spinach
Importance of Green Leaves
Nutritive and Medicinal Value of Spinach
Uses of the Juice
The Decoction of the Leaves
106. Sundakai
A Digestive Tonic
Contains Carbohydrates
As a Pickle
Uses
Some Preparations
As Snuff
107. Sweet Flag
Infusion Acorus
Infusion Acorus and Chiretta
Decoction of Acorus
Acorus Paste
Acorus Co., Decoction
Acorus Co., Digestive Powder
CHAPTER XXXI
108. Tamarind
Tamarind Drink—I
Tamarind Drink—II
A Good Laxative
Panakam
109. Thumbai
Properties and Uses
Decoction of the Flower
Other Uses of the Juice of the Flower
110. Thuthulai
Uses of the Leaf and the Flower
Uses of the Unripe and the Ripe Fruit
Preparations from the Leaf
111. Turmeric
The Many Uses of Turmeric
Turmeric Paste
Turmeric Digestive Powder
Turmeric Decoction
Turmeric Ointment
Turmeric Poultice
112. Vasaka-I
Constituents of the Herb
Uses
Adhatoda Decoction
113. Vasaka-II
Description
Uses of Leaves
Juice of the Leaves
CHAPTER XXXII
114. Vernonia Seeds
Description
Uses
Vernonia Paste
115. Walnut
Description
Uses of Leaf, Fruit, Nut and Seed
Uses of the Skin of the Fruit
116. White Pumpkin
Properties and Uses
The Confection
117. Worm-Killer
Properties and Uses
Preparation
Leaves and the Paste of the Root
Powder
Oil
CHAPTER XXXIII
ANTISEPTICS AND BAZAAR DRUGS
118. Lysol
119. D.D.T.
120. Bran
121. Dill Water
122. Garlic
123. Honey
124. Sarsaparilla
CHAPTER XXXIV
DRESSINGS AND LINIMENTS
125. Acetic Acid
126. Belladonna Plaster
127. Boric Lint
128. Carron Oil Dressing
129. Eucalyptus Oil
130. ABC Liniment
131. Turpentine Liniment
CHAPTER XXXV
PATENT OINTMENTS AND OTHER OINTMENTS
132. Burnol Ointment
133. Cibosol Ointment
134. lodex
135. Penicillin Ointment
136. Tannafax
137. Chrysophanic Ointment
138. Gall and Opium Ointment
139. Rediodide of Mercury Ointment
140. Salicylic Ointment
141. Sulphur Ointment
CHAPTER XXXVI
PATENT MEDICINES FOR INTERNAL USE
142. Amyl Nitras
143. Chlorodyne
144. Easton's Syrup
145. Essence of Ginger
146. Essence of Peppermint
147. Huxley's Syrup
148. Kurchi
149. Neuro Phosphate (Eskay Brand)
150. Parrish's Chemical Food
151. Santogen
152. Sal Volatile
153. Syrup of Figs
154. Syrup of Vasaka
155. Tessol
CHAPTER XXXVII
POWDERS FOR INTERNAL USE
156. Asafoetida
157. Ammon. Carbonate
158. Alum
159. Aspirin
160. Bismuth Salicylate
161. Bismuth Carbonate
162. Bismuth and Starch Powder
163. Calcium Lactate
164. Camphor
165. Catechu
166. Dover's Powder
167. Epsom Salt
168. Glucose
169. Pulvis Glycirrihaza Co.
170. Magnesium Citrate
171. Rhubarb
172. Santonin
CHAPTER XXXVIII
POWDERS FOR EXTERNAL USE
173. Acriflavine
174. Borax
175. Boric Acid
176. Copper Sulphate
177. Pot. Permanganate
178. Picric Acid
179. Protargol
180. Tannic Acid
181. Zinc Oxide
CHAPTER XXXIX
PRESCRIPTIONS
182. Babchi
183. Boro-Zinc-Alum Eye Lotion
184. Dusting Powder
185. Gum Paste
186. Golden Ointment for Eyes

187. Mandal's Pigment
188. Stomach Powder
189. Tooth Powder
CHAPTER XL
PURGATIVES AND LAXATIVES
190. Black Draught
191. Cascara Sagrada
192. Castor Oil
193. Confection of Sulphur
194. Glycerin Suppository
195. Liquid Paraffin
196. Myrobalan
197. Senna Leaves
CHAPTER XLI
TABLETS FOR INTERNAL USE
198. Atebrin
199. Blud's Pill
200. Brewer's Yeast
201. Cibalgin
202. Cibazol
203. Coramine
204. Cathartic Co. Tablet B.W. & Co.
205. Entero-Vioform
206. Multivite Pellet
207. Paludrine
208. Peps
209. Penicillin Lozenges
CHAPTER XLII
TINCTURES FOR EXTERNAL USE
210. Tincture Myrrh
211. Tincture Iodine
212. Friar's Balsam
CHAPTER XLIII
PILES, SCORPION STING, SNAKE BITE, WARTS
213 Piles
Devadaalyaadi Lepa
Arshakuthaar Lepa
Durnaphar Lepa
Ksheeraadi Lepa
Shigru Mooladi Lepa
Kaachanee Lepa
Nimbaadi Lepa
Turaaksheeree Lepa
Kaisaraadi Lepa
Ahephenaadi Lepa
Guggulaadi Kalka
214. Scorpion Sting
215. Snake Bite
Treatment
Nature Cure
Divine Cure
216. Miracle Cure of Country Folk for Warts

CHAPTER XLIV
EQUIPMENTS FOR HOME REMEDIES CUP-BOARD
217. Thirteen Common Household Remedies
Pepper Lozenges
Camphor-tobacco
Burnt Alum
Mulati (liquorice)
Lime Water
Mustard Oil and Camphor
Acetic Acid
Anethi Water
Curd Loaf
Oil of Babchi
Seena Leaves (Sonnamukhi)
Castor Oil
Tincture Quinine Ammoniate
218. Domestic Remedies for Medicine Chest
219. Home Remedies Cup-Board
Equipment for Dressing
Equipment for External Uses
Equipment for Internal Uses
The Appliances
220. Common Herbs: Their Names in Different Languages
APPENDICES
APPENDIX-I
1. Index to Therapeutic Action of Bazaar Drugs

2. Names of Bazaar Medicines
3. Index to Ayurvedic Drugs
APPENDIX-II
1. Indian Domestic Weights and Measures
2. Table of Indian and English Weights
3. Weights and Measures—I
4. Weights and Measures—II
A. Avoirdupois Weight
B. Measures of Capacity .
C. English Domestic Measures
D. Weight for Solids
E. Measures for Fluid
5. Weights and Measures—III
A. Apothecaries' Weights
B. Apothecaries' Measures
C. Metric Units
D. Indian Weights
E. Domestic Measures
APPENDIX-III
Simple Veterinary Treatment at Home

PREFACE
Everyone should possess an elementary knowledge of home remedies. Even this elementary
knowledge of home remedies will go a long way in alleviating a diversity of human suffering and
saving valuable lives. All cannot afford to pay the doctor's bill and purchase costly patent
medicines. The results achieved by "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy" or "Venos Lightening
Cough Cure" can be very easily obtained by a decoction of the vegetable Ladies-finger at the
cost of a few pies, or a lozenge made out of black pepper, sugar-candy, liquorice and honey.
This book supplies a handy list of "Home Remedies" and a list of very useful, practical, potent
prescriptions made up from them. There are very good prescriptions for diarrhoea, dysentery,
fevers, malaria, indigestion, flatulence, constipation, debility, influenza, bronchitis, cough,
scurvy, rheumatism, biliousness, liver, kidney, lung troubles, etc.
In places where there are no dispensaries, "Home Remedies" will come to your help, and guide
you like an able Family Physician. Prakriti or Mother Nature has been very, very kind and be-
neficent. She has placed valuable potent herbs and plants at your backyard, immediate
neighbourhood and garden. Make use of these herbs and be healthy and strong.
Equip your household, domestic, medicine chest with preparations like dysentery powder,
diarrhoea powder, cough lozenges, constipation powder, pills, etc. Your whole family will be
immensely benefited.
Rural dispensaries can give you a great deal of medical relief at a very little cost if "Household
Remedies" or Bazaar medicines are intelligently, judiciously and largely used.
In the Medical Schools and Colleges in India, Europe and America, the students should get a
knowledge of Indian plants, herbs and drugs, during their course of study of Materia Medica.
There is a great potency or potentiality in each of In-dian herbs and plants. Many plants have
very great therapeutic value.
Zandu Pharmaceutical Works, Bombay, and Alembic Chemical Works, Baroda, are
manufacturing many valuable preparations out of the Indian herbs and plants. Still big manu-
facturing and pharmaceutic chemists are needed in India and the whole world at large who can
make and standardize prepa-rations and put them on the market.
Free India should start now many Ayurvedic laboratories in different parts of India to
manufacture various Ayurvedic preparations and send them to different parts of the world and
should have Ayurvedic conquest. Ayurveda will surely have tri-umph over other systems of
medicine as the preparations are very potent, cheap and produce lasting effect and permanent
cure.
A doctor should have a very large Vedantic heart and broad tolerance. He should see good in
every system of medi-cine. He should welcome good from each system and utilise it in the
treatment of his patients. Every individual has a peculiar temperament. Allopathic drug that suits
one temperament will not be suitable to another person. Homeopathy suits X, allopathy suits Y
and Ayurveda suits Z. And as such a synthetic doctor can do more good to the patients by
taking recourse to different systems. Every doctor should have a synthetic knowl-edge of all
systems. Every doctor should have a perfect knowl-edge of the Indian plants and herbs. Then
they can attend well to the health of the patients and their families.
It is hoped that this handy book will be of great help to the householders, rural doctors and the
general practitioners as well.
INTRODUCTORY
THE INDIAN MEDICINAL HERBS
The central fact of Indian Culture is its conception of the spiritual Ideal. Its core and essence is
the fundamental belief that the attainment of perfection is the sole purpose of man's life. Thus
the worth and value of all the other parts and aspects of our life is estimated and equated in
terms of their utility in serving this central Ideal. The value of human birth and body was
accepted because man's body was recognised as the su-preme instrument through which to
strive for reaching life's great consummation. The ancient Seers, the Rishis of wisdom,
therefore, spared no pains in carefully evolving a great system of medicine to help to keep this
precious instrument, i.e., the human body, in perfect trim. The maintenance of the body in
proper disease-free condition and perfect health was a sacred duty of man, for it constituted the
primary means of all attain-ments because, "Health is the supreme root of attainment of the
Good Life, of all wealth, fulfilment of cherished desires and ultimate Liberation". The intuitive
sages of India were in full awareness of this important fact; for, notwithstanding their lofty
idealism they had the admirable faculty to be intensely practical and thorough.
The Indian Seers in the past have devoted special atten-tion to the study of health, disease and
therapeutics. They have worked upon Ayurveda or the science of Life as another Veda.
Ayurveda believes in treatment by herbs which form its mainstay. The greater part of the
treatment of Ayurvedic practi-tioner is by medicinal herbs. How very minute and how thor-oughly
scientific is their study of these herbs and their characteristics is amply evidenced by the
scholarly treatises of these ancient scientists in which subjects they have given us the results of
their admirable researches.
Besides this evidence, the very fact of these herbal medi-cines continuing to be widely used
with remarkable success, even up to this day, by quite modern Ayurvedic medical practi-tioners
all over India, is a patent proof beyond any doubt about the high and enduring merits of this
system of therapeutics.
The high development and specialisation of herbal medi-cation in this country has been a direct
outcome of the fact that due to her vastness and fertility, India had the unique advan-tage of
possessing a wide range of climatic, geographical and geological conditions wherein came to
flourish an infinite vari-ety of numerous, rare and precious herbs. The ancient seer scientists
were ardent lovers of nature and dwellers of the syl-van forests, and as such, had wonderful
scope for close obser-vation of the rich herbal wealth of the vegetable kingdom. Theirs has
been a critical examination and study of almost all the important medicinal herbs. Thus a good
deal of literature, deeply interesting and greatly informative, came into being on this branch of
knowledge. One of the greatest authorities upon this subject is the illustrious author Charaka
whose invaluable work, the "Charaka-Samhita" is still accepted as the standard classical work
on medicine. It forms by far the most exhaustive treatise, and in it Maharshi Charaka gives
nearly fifty different groups of medicinal herbs, naming ten herbs under each group. These fifty
groups or ganas, he considers as being quite sufficient for the purpose of the average medical
practitioner. Another great authority, the able author Sushruta, who is ranked equal with
Charaka, has mentioned about 760 herbs which he has divided into thirty seven ganas or
groups in accor-dance with certain common characteristics. His masterly work was translated
into Arabic as early as twenty centuries ago somewhere about 800 A.D. Later, translations into
Latin and German also appeared. Charaka's works too were translated into Arabic and
references are made in several Latin works of eminent Western physicians.
The grouping of these medicines by these writers reveal an astonishing knowledge of pathology
and diseases thera-peutics, of the savants of so ancient a period. In the wide range of these
grouping are included Anaesthetic, Anabolic, Anthelmintic, Anemetic, Anodyne, Antibromic,
Anticolic, Anti-fat, Antasthmatic, Anticholeric, Antiscorbutic, Antihy-pnotic, Anuretic, Antipyretic,
Antipsoric, Antiphlegmagogue, Antispasmodic, Astringent, Aphrodisiac, Antitoxic, Cathartic,
Calmative, Cholagogue, Carminative, Constringent, Cosmetic, Demulcent, Diaphoretic, Diuretic,
Emetic, Drastic, Emmenagogue, Epispastic, Expectorant, Epulotic, Frigorific, Fat-producer,
Flatus-Producer, Fat-former, Galactagogue, Haemostatic, Hypnotic, Hydragogue, Liquefacient,
Lithonlytic, Laxative, Parturifacient, Phlegmagogue, Purgative, Inebrient, Rejuvenascent,
Refrigerant, Rubefacient, Restorative, Siala-gogue, Sedative, Semen-improver, Stypic, Tonic,
Vermibarous, Stomachic, Spermatopoietic, Voice-improver etc. A disciple of the great Charaka,
Agnivesha by name, enumerates many more classes of medicines besides those mentioned
above. The "Bhava-Prakasha" of Bhava Misra (another important writer on medicinal herbs)
further adds certain valuable medi-cines. New light is thrown upon a number of these medicines
in the "Aatankatimirabhaskara" a comparatively recent work of considerable size by some
Ayurveda Acharya belonging to the eighteenth century. An even more recent author Pundit
Godbole has published in the later half of last century his "Nighantaratnakara" epitomising all
the previous works on Materia Medica with nearly fifty new herbs added, as the result of fresh
research.
The high potency and curative value of the Indian medici-nal herbs have, for long, been well
recognised in countries out-side India. Even so, as far back as previous to the Christian Era,
ancients like Hippocrates recommended Indian herbs in their medical treatises. The Greek
physician Dioscordes (100 A.D.) speaks well of the numerous Indian plants, the medicinal
virtues of which he had thoroughly investigated before incorpo-rating them into his famous
Materia Medica. Later on the Physi-cians who came in the train of the Mohammedan
conquerors were quick to perceive the great potency and worth of the In-dian medicines, and
began to make use of them without hesita-tion. Mohammed Akbar Arzani, the Court Physician
of Emperor Aurangazeb and Nuruddin Mohammed Abdulla Shirazee, the personal Hakeem to
the great Shah Jehan have both included numerous efficacious medicines from the Ayurveda
Materia Medica into their famous works on medicine. And a glance at the "Allopath's
Pharmacopeia" today will be enough proof that the Indian herb has fully lived upto its reputation
as potent heal-ers.
There is a special reason why medicinal herbs constitute the most invaluable sovereign remedy
for every ailment. It is because they contain in them the 'curative element' in its most vital,
potent, and withal, easiest state. This is brought about by the following factors: the herbs are
God sent apparatuses en-dowed with the unique capacity for converting valuable inor-ganic
ganic earth-salts, chemicals and minerals into organic substances eminently suitable for
complete absorption into the human system. The cells in the human body are vital tissues.
Chemical drugs are inert matter. They are never fully absorbed into the human system and fail
to go to the root of the trouble and effect a radical cure. In herbs we have vital substances that
actually get absorbed into the very core of our tissues. The es-sence of herbs is the vital
substance. These remedies go to the very root of the disease and remove it in toto as they are
assim-ilated into the cell of the human system. They are also, in a way, in predigested form
because they come from the soil, specially energised by potent rays of the sun and the gases of
the atmo-sphere. Thus, these herbal essences get purified and irradi-ated during the hours of
day light and, in addition, store up the healing potencies of the lunar rays at night. The latter
infuse the herb with marvelous curative properties. Furthermore, the herb forms the medicine
par excellence as it is infused by a life-prin-ciple drawn out of the power of the Panchabhutas or
the five fundamental elements, i.e., earth, water, fire, air and ether. The physical frame of man is
a combination of these five, and hence, the herbal extract is the nearest approach to the most
ideal combination for administration. The secret of the marvel-lous and almost miraculous
curative potencies of the herb, is the presence in them of a supraterrestrial force, i.e., the solar
energy. The Sun is the source of cosmic energy. It is the source of the mightiest healing power
known to mankind. Hindu seers have regarded the Sun as Divine in nature. And the only sub-
stance known in nature that possesses the capacity of stock piling solar energy in the form of a
usable essence is the plant chlorophyll. Precisely, therefore, herbs are said to possess di-vine
potency termed by Hindus as Divya Shakti.
The study of herbs is of absorbing interest. Their adminis-tration is also simple, compared to the
elaborate and compli-cated process of other pharmacopoeias. It is now an established fact that
the science of herbal cure is not experi-mental. Its high merits and practical utility have long
been put to severe tests by the Rishis and practitioners of the past whose researches and
practical therapeutical findings have been mi-nutely recorded for us in their illuminating
treatises. Therein we find their minute study of the herbs; their characteristics, habi-tat,
conditions for their healthy growth, their appearance, the time of highest potency etc. The
proper season for gathering the herbs, the localities from which they should be collected and the
right method of processing them, isolating the active principle and preserving it, are all
accurately and scientifically detailed. One noteworthy point in the naming of these Indian
medicinal herbs is that in great many cases their very names are descriptive of the specific
character or prominent appear-ance of the plant. This becomes an effective means for the easy
identification of the particular herb. Thus, for instance, Acores Calamus has the name Ugra-
gandha (strong-odour), for it is characterised by very pungent smell. The name Vatsa-nabha
(calf's navel) describes the plant Aconitum ferox because its root resembles the umbilical cord
of a calf. Tribulus Terrestris is referred to by the significant name Trikantaka (three-thorned) as
its fruit contains three prickles. Ricinus Communis goes by the name Chitrabija (spotted seed)
due to its seed being speckled by white or brown patches. Datura Alba is named Ghanta-
pushpa (bell-flower) due to the shape of its flowers. The long and cylindrical podded Cassia
Fistula gets the name Deerghafala (long fruit) and the plant Sapindus Emarginatus is called
Bahuphena (very foamy) because its berries produce a rich soapy lather when rubbed and
shaken with water.
A full study of all the herbal medicines is not a possibility in the introductory note. The interested
reader can gather some idea of the precious gems that are to be found in the mine of this
Ayurvedic Materia Medica.
India has ever been evolving art after art, science after sci-ence as her contribution to the
common heritage of all the na-tions of the world. Her greatest gift to the world is the gift of the
spiritual science of Self-perfection. Next to it I would place this science of Life, the Ayur-veda as
a precious gift to be carefully developed and broadcast to all nations. It is a national duty of
every Indian.
CONTENTS
Preface 6
Introductory: The Indian Medicinal Herbs 8
Part-I
Section-I
Chapter-I
1.Abrus 41
(i) Description
(ii)Syrup Abrus. Co
(iii)Uses of Leaves
(a)Abrus Leaves Extract
(b)Cooling Bathing Oil
(iv)Uses of Seed
2.Acacia Arabica 43
(i)Description
(ii)The Gum and the Twig
(iii)Babul Bark Decoction
3.Agati Grandiflora 44
(i)The Uses of Leaves
(ii)The Uses of Juice
CHAPTER II
4.Ajowan 45
(i)Ajowan: It’s Usefulness
(ii)Its Properties and Preparations
5.Aloes 46
(i)Its Varieties
(ii)It’s Properties & Uses
6.Alum 47
(i)Description
(ii)Uses of Alum
7.Amla 48
(i)Description
(ii)Amla Sherbet
(iii)A Laxative
8.Anise 50
(i)Digestive Powder
(ii)Aqua Anise
(iii)For Cough
(iv)A Digestive Power
(v)A Gentle Laxative
9.Arai Keerai 51
(i)Introductory
(ii)Uses of Arai Keerai
CHAPTER III
10.Asafoetida 52
(i)Some Particulars
(ii)For Wind and Colic Bowels
(iii)Asafoetida Enema
(iv)For Hysteria
(v)A Good Digestive Powder
(vi)Asafoetida Ear Drops
(vii)For Scorpion Sting
11.Asoka 54
(i)Description
(ii)For Dysentery
(iii)Asoka Decoction
(iv)Asokarishta (Asokamritam)
(v)Asoka Ghrita
12.Astercantha Longifolia 55
(i)Description
(ii)Kokilaksha Decoction
(iii)Kokilaksha Infusion
(iv)Aphrodisiac Tonic
CHAPTER IV
13.Aswagandha 56
(i)Description
(ii)Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-1
(iii)Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-2
(iv)Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-3
(v)Aswagandha Decoction
(vi)Aswagandha Paste
(vii)Aswaagandhadi Pills 5-Grains
(viii)Aswagandha Arishta-1
(ix)Aswagandha Arishta-2
(x)Aswagandhi Ghritam
(xi)Aswagandha Lehyam 60
14.Atis or Atees
(i)Description
(ii)Atis Powder
(iii)Atis with Sugar
(iv)Atis with Honey
(v)Atis Co. Decoction
(vi)Compound Atis Powder
CHAPTER V
15.Babchi Seeds 61
(i)A Reputed Ayurvedic Medicine For
Leucoderma
(ii)The Seeds, The Oil, The Tablet
16.Barley 63
(i)A Nutritive Food for the Anaemic
(ii)Manifold Utility of Barley Water
(iii)Pearl Barley and the Powder
17.Bel Fruit 63
(i)Uses of the Half-Ripe Fruit
(ii)Uses of the Unripe Fruit
(iii)The Pulp, The Leaf & The Root
(iv)Prescriptions
CHAPTER VI
18.Betel Leaf 66
(i)Uses of the Leaf
(ii)Betel Poultice
(iii)Betel Leaf-Ginger Juice
(iv)Songsters’ Friend
(v)Betel Juice and Golochan
(vi)Betel Decoction
(vii)Betel Suppository
19.Betel Nut 68
(i)Uses
(ii)Powder for Diarrhoea
(iii)Areca Nut Decoction
(iv)Areca Nut Tooth Powder
(v)Compound Areca Nut Tooth Powder
(vi)Areca Root Decoction
(vii)For Tape-Worm
(viii)For Round and Thread-Worms
20.Bilwa Tree 70
(i)Its Properties
(ii)Its Uses
(iii)Parts Used
(iv)Medical Preparations
CHAPTER VII
21.Black Pepper 72
(i)Properties and Uses
(ii)Cholera Pill
(iii)Digestive Powder
(iv)Pepper Confection
(v)Pepper Infusion
(vi)Pepper Tulsi Tea
(vii)For Growing Hair
22.Bonduc Nut 73
(i)Description
(ii)Bonduc Seed Powder
(iii)Bonduc Seed Tooth-powder
(iv)Bonduc Seed Powder with Asafoetida
(v)Bonduc Leaf Poultice
23.Borax 75
(i)Description and Uses
(ii)Glycerine-Boracis
(iii)Mel Boracis
(vi)Plain Borax
(v)Borax Dehydrated
CHAPTER VIII
24.Butea Seeds-I 76
(i)The Leaf and the Seed
(ii)For Round-worm, Tape-worm, Ulcers
25.Butea Seeds-II 77
(i)The Powder, The Leaves and The Gum
(ii)For Cobra Poison
(iii)Bark Decoction
(vi)Decoction of Butea Leaves
(v)Butea Root (Palas-ka-ark)
(vi)Butea Bark (For Snake Bite)
(vii)Butea Flower
(viii)Butea Gum Powder (Bengal Kino)
(ix)Butea Leaf
CHAPTER IX
26.Buttermilk 80
(i)Description
(ii)Its Medicinal Qualities
(iii)Properties and Uses
27.Camphor 81
(i)An Anaphrodisiac
(ii)An antigalactagogue
(iii)An Antiseptic
(iv)For Pains
(v)An Anti-Spasmodic
(vi)The Many Uses
28.Capsicum 82
(i)Properties and Contents
(ii)Capsicum Gargle
(iii)Capsicum Pill
(iv)Capsicum Decoction
(v)Capsicum Lozenge
(vi)Capsicum Liniment
(vii)Capsicum Powder
(viii)Capsicum Ointment
29. Caraway Seeds 84

(i)Caraway Digestive Powder
(ii)Pancha-Deepagni Lehiam
(iii)Caraway Water
(iv)Digestive Powder
(v)Borax Dehydrated
CHAPTER X
30. Cardamom 86
(i)Digestive Powder—I
(ii)Cardamom Decoction
(iii)Digestive Powder—II
(iv)Compound Cardamom Powder
(v)Cardamom Ghee
(vi)Cardamom Co. Pill
31. Cassia Alata 88
(i)Dadmurdan Ointment
(ii)Dadmurdan Paste
(iii)Dadmurdan Oil
(iv)Preparation for Many Uses
32. Castor Oil 89
(i)Castor Oil Poultice
(ii)Castor Oil Emulsion
(iii)Castor Oil with Tr. Opium
(iv)Castor Oil Eye Drops
(v)As a Poultice
(iv)The Three Ghee
CHAPTER XI
33. Catechu 91
(i)Description
(ii)Tincture Catechu
(iii)Catechu Powder
(vi)Catechu Compound Infusion
(v)For Diarrhoea in Children
(vi)A Good Dentifrice
(vii)Catechu Infusion
(viii)Catechu Co. Ointment
34. Chaulmoogra Oil 93

(i)Uses and Some Instructions
(ii)Chaulmoogra Co. Emulsion
(iii)Chaulmoogra Ointment—I
(iv)Chaulmoogra Ointment—II
(v)Chaulmoogra Tonic
(vi)Chaulmoogra Pill
(vii)Plain Chaulmoogra Emulsion
35. Chiretta 95
(i)Description
(ii)Uses Chiretta Infusion—I
(iii)Chiretta Infusion—H
(iv)Chiretta Infusion—Ill
(v)Chiretta Infusion—IV
CHAPTER XII
36. Cinnamon 97
(ii)Compound Cinnamon Powder
(iii)Cinnamon Decoction
(iv)Cinnamon and Catechu Decoction
(v)Cinnamon and Catechu Powder
37. Cloves 99
(i)Properties, Uses and Preparations
(ii)Infusion of Cloves
(iii)A Good Purgative
(iv)Cloves Chiretta Tonic
(v)Compound Cloves Powder
(vi)Cloves Triphala Powder
38. Cocculus Indicus 101
(i)Description
(ii)For Itching Skin
(iii)For Intravenous Injection
CHAPTER XIII
39. Coriander Seeds 102

(i)Description
(ii)Uses of coriander Leaf
(iii)Coriander Infusion
(iv)Coriander Coffee
(v)Coriander Co. Powder
(iv)Oil of Coriander
40. Country Fig 104
(i)Uses of Fig Fruit
41. Country Gooseberry 104
(i)Description
(ii)Leaf, Seed and Fruit
(iii)Gooseberry Juice
(iv)Gooseberry Sherbet
(v)For Vomiting
(vi)Gooseberry Chutney
(vii)Gooseberry Patchadie
(viii)To relieve Constipation
CHAPTER XIV
42. Country Ipecacuantia Tylophora 106

(i)Description
(ii)Uses of Powdered Dried Leaves
43. Country Sarsaparilla 107
(i)Its Importance Emphasised in Ayurvedic Scriptures
(ii)Its Utility in Many Diseases
(iii)Sarsaparilla Coffee-1
(iv)Sarsaparilla Coffee-2
(v)Sarsaparilla Drink
(vi)Sarsaparilla Sherbet
(vii)Saribadyarishta
(viii)Sariva Quath (decoction)
44. Croton Seeds 109
(ii)Croton Pill
(iii)Croton Oil Liniment
(iv)How to Purify Croton
45. Cubebs 111
(i)Description and the Uses
(ii)Cubebs Co. Powder-1
(iii)Cubebs Co. Powder-2
(iv)Cough Mixture
(v)Cubebs with Hot Milk
(vi)Cubebs Oil Mixture
(vii)Cubeb Decoction
(viii)Cubebs with Honey
Section II
CHAPTER XV
46.Dhatura 113
(i)Properties, Varieties and Uses
(ii)Fr inhalation in Asthma
(iii)Dhatura Cigarette
(iv)Dhatura Fomentaion
(v)Dhatura Poultice
(vi)Dhatura Liniment
47.Dill Seeds 115
(ii)Dill Water
(iii)Dill and Lime Water
(iv)D.L.A. Water
(v)Dill Flower Decction
(vi)For Confinement Women
(vii)Dill Leaf Poltice
(viii)Dill Leaf Powder
(ix)Dill Juice
48.Dried Ginger 117
(i)Aromatic, Stimulant and Carminative
(ii)Uses and Preprations
CHAPTER XVI
49. Edible Hibiscus 119

(i)Description, Properties and Uses
(ii)Lady's Finger Decoction
50. Essence of Ginger 120
(i)Its Colour and Its Uses
51. Fenugreek 120
(ii)Methi Leaf
(iii)Confection of Leaf
(iv)Methi Decoction
(v)Methi Seeds
(vi)Methi Laddu
(vii)Methi Seeds with Rice
(viii)Methi Soup or Kuzhambhu
CHAPTER XVII
52. Four o'clock Flower 122

(i)Derivation of the Name
(ii)The Leaf a Deobstruent, the Root a Laxative
(iii)Preparations and Uses
53. Fresh Ginger 123
(i)Ginger with Milk
(ii)Ginger Juice Preparation
(iii)Allopaths and Ginger Preparations
(iv)Kitchen & Some Common Uses of Ginger
54. Galangal 124
(i)Its Two Varieties and Its Uses
(ii)Galangal Powder
(iii)Galangal Infusion
(iv)Galangal Decoction
CHAPTER XVIII
55. Galls or Galla 125

(i)Description
(ii)Three Varieties and Many Uses
(iii)Gall Decoction
(iv)Compound Gall Powder
(v)Compound Gall Pill
(vi)Gall and Ghee Ointment
(vii)Gall Gargle
(viii)Plain Gall Powder
(ix)Gall Snuff
(x)Gall and Benzoin Ointment
(xi)For Intermittent Fever
(xii)Gall and Chiretta
(xiii)Tannic Acid
(xiv)Tannic Acid Ointment
56. Garjan Oil 129
(i)Characteristics & Effective Uses
(ii)Garjan Oil Emulsion—I
(iii)Garjan Oil Emulsion—II
(iv)Garjan Oil Ointment
57. Garlic 130
(i)Properties of Garlic
(ii)Uses of Garlic
(iii)Ear Drops
(iv)Dysentery Confection
(v)Liniment
(vi)Garlic Decoction
58. Gulancha 132
(i)Description
(ii)Beneficial Effects of Tinospore
(iii)Gulancha Compound Infusion
(iv)Sat-Gilo or Giloka-sat
(v)Gulancha Infusion
(vi)Gulancha Decoction
(vii)Gulancha-Chiretta Decoction
CHAPTER XIX
59. Holy Basil 134

(i)Religion and Holy Basil
(ii)The Black and the White
(iii)Properties of Leaves
(iv)The Uses of Leaves
(v)Insect-bite and Tulasit
(vi)The Tea, the Oil the Seeds
60. Honey 136
(i)Value of Honey for Medicine Chest
(ii)Glucose and Laevulose in Honey
(iii)Mel Borax
(iv)Oxymel
(v)The Morning Drink
(vi)A Substitute for Sugar and Useful in Burns
61. Indian Acalypha 138
(i)Description
(ii)Its Properties and Medicinal Purposes
(iii)Beneficial in Chronic Bronchitis
(iv)Juice of the Leaves: An Emetic
(v)Powder Useful in Cough
(vi)Uses of the Juice and the Decoction
(vii)Paste of the Leaves
CHAPTER XX
62. Indian Parselanen 140

(i)Description
(ii)Uses of the Juice and the Paste
63.Indian Pennywort-I 141
(i)A Very Precious Herb
(ii)Uses of the Powder
(iii)The Brahmi Drink
(iv)The Juice and Powder
(v)Decoction of the Entire Plant
(vi)The Paste and the Juice
64.Indian Pennywort-II 143
(i)Pennywort Pills
(ii)Pennywort Poultice
(iii)For Diarrhoea of Children
(iv)Pennywort Co. piils
(v)Pennywort Decoction
(vi)Pennywort Leaves Powder
(vii)For Leprosy
(viii)Pennywort Co. Decoction
(ix)Juice and Milk
(x)Pennywort Ointment
65. Isafgul 145
(i)The Preparation
(ii)For Dysentery and Diarrhoea
(iii)A Special Preparation
CHAPTER XXI
66. Jatamanji 146

(i)The Uses
(ii)The Two Varieties
(iii)Infusion Jatamanji
(iv)Epilepsy-Hysteria Mixture
(v)Jatamanji Co. Powder
(vi)For Grey Hair
67. Kala-Dana 148
(ii)Purgative Powder
(iii)Fever Powder
68. Kamela 149
(i)Uses
(ii)For Tapeworm, etc.
(iii)For Ringworm, etc.
69. Kandang Kathri 150
(i)Uses
(ii)Juice Boiled with Mustard Oil
(iii)Juice Boiled with Linseed Oil
(iv)Juice Boiled with Almond Oil
(v)Seeds and the Fruit
CHAPTER XXII
70. Kuppameni 151

(i)Description
(ii)Therapeutic Uses
71. Kurchi 152
(i)Description
(ii)Kurchi Infusion
(iii)Kurchi Powder
72.Lawsonia Alba 153
(i)The Properties
(ii)The Uses
(iii)The Flowers, Leaves and the Bark
73.Lemon-Grass Oil 154
(i)Description
(ii)Uses
(iii)Emulsion
(iv)A Good Liniment
CHAPTER XXIII
74.Lime Fruit 155

(i)Uses of the Fruit—I
(ii)Uses of the Juice—I
(iii)Uses of the Fruit—II
(iv)Uses of the Juice—II
(v)Lemonade
75. Linseed 157
(i)Uses of the Leaf, the Seed and the Flower
(ii)Linseed Oil
(iii)Linseed Tea
(iv)Linseed Poultice
(v)Carron Oil
(vi)Linseed and Sugar
(vii)Linseed Confection
(viii)Linseed Lehiam
76. Liquorice 159
(i)Constituents and Preparations
(ii)Syrup of Liquorice
(iii)Liquorice Lozenge
(iv)Liquorice Pill
(v)Liquorice Extract
77. Long Pepper (Pipul) 160
(i)Uses
(ii)Long Pepper with Myrobalan
(iii)Cough Powder
(iv)Pipul Infusion
(v)A Good Digestive Powder
(vi)Pipul with Honey
(vii)Pipul with Milk
(viii)Pipul Confection
CHAPTER XXIV
78. Malabar Night Shade 162

(i)Description
(ii)Uses
79.Manathakkali 163
(i)The Uses of the Fruit and Leaf
(ii)Juice and Decoction of the Leaf
80. Mint 164
(iii)Varieties of Mint
(iv)Its Uses
(v)Pudina Tel and Its Utilities
81. Moringa 165
(i)The Root, Flower and the Bark
(ii)Murungai Infusion
(iii)The Leaves and Their Uses
(iv)Utility of the Flower, Fruit and the Gum
CHAPTER XXV
82. Mudar 166

(i)Mudar Root-Bark
(ii)Mudar Powder
(iii)Mudar Leaf
(iv)Mudar Flower
83. Mustard 167
(i)The Uses
(ii)Its Utilities in Foot-Bath
(iii)Mustard Plaster
84. Myrobalan 168
(i)Description, Properties and Uses
(ii)A Safe and Gentle Laxative
(iii)Triphala, Choorna
(iv)A Good Laxative
(v)Myrobalan Decoction
85. Neem (Margosa) 171
(i)The Properties and the Uses
(ii)Neem Decoction
(iii)Neem Powder
(iv)Neem Poultice
(v)Neem Leaf
(vi)Children's Friend
(vii)Neem Flower Chutney
(viii)Neem Flower Rasam
(ix)Neem Bark Decoction
86. Nutmeg
(ii)Nutmeg Co. Powder
(iii)Pulvis Nutmeg Compound
CHAPTER XXVI
87. Opium 176

(i)Description
(ii)Properties and Uses
(iii)Allopathic Preparations
(iv)Instructions for Uses
(v)Compound Opium Powder
(vi)Gall and Opium Ointment
(vii)Poppy Heads Fomentation
88. Papaya-I 178
(i)The Fruit and the Milky Fluid
(ii)The Digestive Powder
(iii)The Digestive Drink
(iv)The Uses of Ripe and Unripe Fruit
(v)The Utility of the Leaves
89. Papaya—II 180
(i)Papaya Juice with Honey
(ii)Papaya Juice with Sugar
(iii)Papaya Juice with Milk
(iv)Papain
(v)For Ringworm
Papaya Leaf Poultice
90. Peepul Tree 182
(i)Description
(ii)The Uses
(iii)Powder
(iv)Dusting Powder
(v)Decoction
(vi)Infusion
Ash of the Bark
91. Pellyworth Root 184
(ii)Compound Pellyworth Powder
CHAPTER XXVII
92. Physic-nut Plant 185

(I)Description and the Properties
(II)The Utility of Leaves and Milk
(III)The Uses of the Oil
(IV)The Stick and the Root-bark
93. Pine Apple 186
(i)The Properties of Leaf and Fruit
(ii)The Uses of the Fruit
94. Plantain 187
(i)Description
(ii)The Flower
(iii)The Fruit
(iv)The Leaf
(v)Plantain Fruit with Milk
(vi)Plantain with Tamarind
95. Pomegranate 189
(i)Properties
(ii)Pomegranate Decoction
(iii)Pomegranate and Kurchi Decoction
(iv)Pomegranate Decoction with Alum
(v)Root-Bark Decoction
(vi)The Uses
CHAPTER XXVIII
96. Ponnangkani 190

Description
97. Ptercarpus Marsupium 191
Description
Uses of the Timber
Kino from the Bark
The Leaves
Germination and Growth of the Tree
A Piece of Wood and the Drink
98. Pulichakkerai 193
Properties and Uses
Juice of the Flower
CHAPTER XXIX
99. Rice 194

(i)Varieties of Rice and Properties
(ii)For External Use
(iii) Internal Use
100. Salt 197
(i)Salt Oil
(ii)Salt Gargle
(iii)Salt as an Emetic
101.Sandal Wood 197
(i)Uses
(ii)Sandal Wood Oil
102. Sapota 198
(i)For Blood Enrichment
103. Senna 198
(i)Description
(ii)Uses
(iii)Method of Preparation
(iv)For Children
CHAPTER XXX
104. Sesamum 200

(i)Uses of Leaves
(ii)Uses of the Seeds
(iii)Uses of the Oil of Sesamum—I
(iv)Uses of the Oil of Sesamum—II
105. Spinach 201
(i)Importance of Green Leaves
(ii)Nutritive and Medicinal Value of Spinach
(iii)Uses of the Juice
The Decoction of the Leaves
106. Sundakai 202
(i)A Digestive Tonic
(ii)Contains Carbohydrates
(iii)As a Pickle
(iv)Uses
(v)Some Preparations
(vi)As Snuff
107. Sweet Flag 203
(ii)Infusion Acorus
(iii)Infusion Acorus and Chiretta
(iv)Decoction of Acorus
(v)Acorus Paste
(vi)Acorus Co., Decoction
(vi)Acorus Co., Digestive Powder
CHAPTER XXXI
108. Tamarind 206

(ii)Tamarind Drink—I
(iii)Tamarind Drink—II
(iv)A Good Laxative
(v)Panakam
109. Thumbai 207
(ii)Decoction of the Flower
(iii)Other Uses of the Juice of the Flower
110. Thuthulai 208
(i)Uses of the Leaf and the Flower
(ii)Uses of the Unripe and the Ripe Fruit
(iii)Preparations from the Leaf
111. Turmeric 209
(i)The Many Uses of Turmeric
(ii)Turmeric Paste
(iii)Turmeric Digestive Powder
(ivTurmeric Decoction
(v)Turmeric Ointment
(vi)Turmeric Poultice
112. Vasaka-I 211
(i)Constituents of the Herb
(ii)Uses
(iii)Adhatoda Decoction
113. Vasaka-II 213
(i)Description
(ii)Uses of Leaves
(iii)Juice of the Leaves
CHAPTER XXXII
114. Vernonia Seeds 214

(i)Description
(ii)Uses
(iii)Vernonia Paste
115. Walnut 215
(i)Description
(ii)Uses of Leaf, Fruit, Nut and Seed
(iii)Uses of the Skin of the Fruit
116. White Pumpkin 215
(ii)The Confection
117. Worm-Killer 216
(ii)Preparation
(iii)Leaves and the Paste of the Root
(iv)Powder
(v)Oil
PART II
CHAPTER XXXIII
118. Lysol 218

119. D.D.T. 218
120. Bran 218
121. Dill Water 218
122. Garlic 219
123. Honey 219
124. Sarsaparilla 219
CHAPTER XXXIV
125. Acetic Acid 219

126. Belladonna Plaster 219
127. Boric Lint 220
128. Carron Oil Dressing 220
129. Eucalyptus Oil 220
130. ABC Liniment 220
131. Turpentine Liniment 220
CHAPTER XXXV
PATNT ONITMENTS AND OTHER ONITMENTS
132. Burnol Ointment 221

133. Cibosol Ointment 221
134. lodex 221
135. Penicillin Ointment 221
136. Tannafax 221
137. Chrysophanic Ointment 221
138. Gall and Opium Ointment 222
139. Rediodide of Mercury Ointment 222
140. Salicylic Ointment 222
141. Sulphur Ointment 222
CHAPTER XXXVI
142. Amyl Nitras 222

143. Chlorodyne 222
144. Easton's Syrup 223
145. Essence of Ginger 223
146. Essence of Peppermint 223
147. Huxley's Syrup 223
148. Kurchi 223
149. Neuro Phosphate (Eskay Brand) 224
150. Parrish's Chemical Food 224
151. Santogen 224
152. Sal Volatile 224
153. Syrup of Figs 225
154. Syrup of Vasaka 225
155. Tessol 225
CHAPTER XXXVII
156. Asafoetida 225

157. Ammon. Carbonate 225
158. Alum 226
159. Aspirin 226
160. Bismuth Salicylate 227
161. Bismuth Carbonate 227
162. Bismuth and Starch Powder 227
163. Calcium Lactate 227
164. Camphor 227
165. Catechu 227
166. Dover's Powder 228
167. Epsom Salt 228
168. Glucose 228
169. Pulvis Glycirrihaza Co. 228
170. Magnesium Citrate 228
171. Rhubarb 228
172. Santonin 229
CHAPTER XXXVIII
173. Acriflavine 229

174. Borax 229
175. Boric Acid 229
176. Copper Sulphate 230
177. Pot. Permanganate 230
178. Picric Acid 230
179. Protargol 230
180. Tannic Acid 230
181. Zinc Oxide 231
CHAPTER XXXIX
PRESCRIPTIONS
182. Babchi 231

183. Boro-Zinc-Alum Eye Lotion 231
184. Dusting Powder 231
185. Gum Paste 231
186. Golden Ointment for Eyes 232
187. Mandal's Pigment 232
188. Stomach Powder 232
189. Tooth Powder 232
CHAPTER XL
190. Black Draught 232

191. Cascara Sagrada 233
192. Castor Oil 233
193. Confection of Sulphur 233
194. Glycerin Suppository 233
195. Liquid Paraffin 233
196. Myrobalan 233
197. Senna Leaves 233
CHAPTER XLI
198. Atebrin 234

199. Blud's Pill 234
200. Brewer's Yeast 234
201. Cibalgin 234
202. Cibazol 235
203. Coramine 235
204. Cathartic Co. Tablet B.W. & Co. 235
205. Entero-Vioform 235
206. Multivite Pellet 236
207. Paludrine 236
208. Peps 236
209. Penicillin Lozenges 237
CHAPTER XLII
210. Tincture Myrrh 237

211. Tincture Iodine 237
212. Friar's Balsam 237
CHAPTER XLIII
213 Piles 238

(i)Devadaalyaadi Lepa
(ii)Arshakuthaar Lepa
(iii)Durnaphar Lepa
(iv)Ksheeraadi Lepa
(v)Shigru Mooladi Lepa
(vi)Kaachanee Lepa
(vii)Nimbaadi Lepa
(viii)Turaaksheeree Lepa
(ix)Kaisaraadi Lepa
(x)Ahephenaadi Lepa
(xi)Guggulaadi Kalka
214. Scorpion Sting 240

215. Snake Bite 241
(i)Treatment
(ii)Nature Cure
(iii)Divine Cure
216. Miracle Cure of Country Folk for Warts 242
CHAPTER XLIV
EQUIPMENTS FOR HOME REMEDIES CUP-BOARD
217. Thirteen Common Household Remedies 243

(i)Pepper Lozenges
(ii)Camphor-tobacco
(iii)Burnt Alum
(iv)Mulati (liquorice)
(v)Lime Water
(vi)Mustard Oil and Camphor
(vii)Acetic Acid
(viii)Anethi Water
(ix)Curd Loaf
(x)Oil of Babchi
(xi)Seena Leaves (Sonnamukhi)
(xii)Castor Oil
(xiii)Tincture Quinine Ammoniate
218. Domestic Remedies for Medicine Chest 245

219. Home Remedies Cup-Board 246
(i)Equipment for Dressing
(ii)Equipment for External Uses
(iii)Equipment for Internal Uses
(iv)The Appliances
220. Common Herbs: Their Names in 248
Different Languages
APPENDICES
APPENDIX-I
1. Index to Therapeutic Action of Bazaar Drugs
2. Names of Bazaar Medicines
3. Index to Ayurvedic Drugs
APPENDIX-II
1. Indian Domestic Weights and Measures 262

2. Table of Indian and English Weights 262
3. Weights and Measures—I 263
4. Weights and Measures—II
B. Measures of Capacity .
D. Weight for Solids
5. Weights and Measures—III 265
C. Metric Units
D. Indian Weights
APPENDIX-II
Simple Veterinary Treatment at Home 266
PART-I
Section-I
CHAPTER I
ABRUS,ACACIA ARABICA,AGATI GRANDIFLORA
1.ABRUS
(COUNTRY LIQUORICE ROOT)
English :Jequirity
Hindi :Rati
Kanarese :Gul-ganji
Tamil :Kundumaniver
Telugu :Guru-venda,Guru-ginja
Malayalam :Kunni-Kuru
Gujarati :Gumchi
Bengali :Kunch-ka-jar,Jaishtomodhu,Bengala
Sanskrit :Gunja
(i)Description
The root of Abrus Precatorius. The taste of the root is gen-erally not distinctly sweet. It yields an
extract which is nearly similar in medicinal properties to the extract of glycerrhiza (Atimathuram
in Tamil. Liquorice), though somewhat bitter in taste. The leaves are distinctly sweet. The
extract from the dried leaves is much superior both in taste and as a medicine.
The root is obtained from a twining shrub. This shrub is common throughout India. It has bright-
red seeds which have a black spot at one end. The seeds are used for weighing by goldsmiths.
The root possesses many of the medical proper-ties of the true liquorice root. Therefore it is
known by the name Country Liquorice.
There are white, black, red, yellow and blue varieties. The chief ones are the white, black and
red. The leaves of Abrus are laxative, antiphilegistic, aphrodisiac, expectorant. The seed has
purgative properties. It is a tonic as well. The root has emetic and expectorant qualities.
(ii) Syrup Abrus.Co
Re: Fresh Abrus root bruised oz. 2

Lady's finger (vegetable) sliced oz. 1
Water oz. 20
Boil for 30 minutes and strain. Add to the decoction 10 ounces of sugar-candy or honey. Boil
down to the consistence of syrup. Dose: One tea to a tablespoonful, several times a day when
the cough is troublesome in children whether fever is present or not. This can be administered
very freely. This is a good addition or auxiliary to other cough mixtures. You can pre-pare the
Syrup without lady's finger also.
Prepare only a small quantity at a time as it undergoes fer-mentation. If you add 10 or 20 grains
of acid Salicylic to the Syrup when it is under preparation, it will keep good and sweet for a long
time. Acid Salicylic arrests fermentation as it is an an-tiseptic.
(iii) Uses of Leaves
Put a few leaves in the mouth, chew and swallow the juice. Hoarseness of voice will disappear.
(a) Abrus Leaves' Extract
Pour boiling water on the dried leaves till they are cov-ered, Keep the vessel on a slow fire for 6
hours. Then strain the decoction when it is hot and evaporate on a water bath to a proper
consistency. It is very sweet. An extract can be prepared from the juice of the fresh leaves also.
If there is pain in the chest or any part of the body apply castor oil to the part and over this fix
the leaves The pain will vanish and the fluid inside will also disappear.
Mix the juice of the leaves with mustard or sesamum oil and rub the mixture over the painful
swelling, The swelling and the pain will disappear.
(b)Cooling Bathing Oil
Re: Juice of the leaves oz. 10

Juice of Bhringraj
(Karisalamganni) oz. 10
Gingily oil oz. 10
Mix and boil. Take oil bath with this oil. It will cool the body, head and brain.
(iv) Uses of Seed
The seed acts as a purgative. The outer covering of the seed has this effect. The seed can be
boiled and eaten. It acts as an aphrodisiac (dhatupushti) and is useful in debility or im-potence.
It increases the semen.
Powder the seeds and use the powder as a snuff. This will relieve headache due to cold in the
head.
Put the powder of one seed in milk, boil it and drink. It will build the body and give strength.
The powder of the seed is useful in diseases of the eye, jaundice, biliousness, fevers which
produce unconsciousness, and which are associated with perspiration, bronchitis.
Make a paste of the seed with water and apply it in contu-sion, rheumatic swelling of joints.
They will be cured.
2. ACACIA ARABICA
(INDIAN GUM ARABIC TREE)
English :Babul tree :

Hindi Kala-babul, Kikar :
Kanarese Karijali :
Tamil Karuvel :
Telugu Nalla-tumma :
Malayalam Karuvelum :
Marathi Babul :
Gujarati Kaloabaval :
Sanskrit Kala barbura
(i) Description
A dried gummy exudation from the stem and branches of Acacia Arabica, Acacia Senegal or
other varities of Acacia in round or avoid tears or masses. It is odourless and of bland mu-
cilaginous taste. It is straw coloured or yellowish. Its chief con-stituent is Arabic acid combined
with Calcium, Potassium and Magnesium. It contains Tannin.
Musilage of Acacia is used for making castor oil emulsion and Bismuth mixture. It is used to
suspend oils, resins and in-soluble powders, in water to make pills and lozenges on ac-count of
its cohesive property. It acts as a demulcent to soothe the mucous membrane of the throat
when it is used in the prep-aration of lozenges.
The leaf, bark, root and seed possess astringent proper-ties.
(ii) The Gum and the Twig
The gum is a demulcent, emollient, nutrisnt, pectoral and aphrodiasiac. The gum thickens the
semen, stops the dis-charge in gonorrhoea and gives beauty and strength. It is an auxiliary to
medicines which are given in diabetes millitus and insipidus.
Keep a small piece in the mouth and slowly swallow the juice. Dry cough, pain in the throat,
burning in the chest will be cured.
The twig of the tree is an excellent tooth-brush. It strength-ens and hardens the teeth.
(iii) Babul bark decoction
Re: Babul bark 2 ounces

Water 20 ounces
Boil for 15 minutes and strain.
This is a useful gargle for spongy gums, ulceration of gums, loose teeth, sores in the mouth,
mercurial ulceration in the mouth and sore throat. This is also a very good application (enema)
for prolapse or descent of rectum and anus and piles. This is a good lotion (for injection) in
leucorrhoea and gonor-rhoea. You can add a teaspoonful of alum to the decoction. Plain Babul
bark decoction is useful in chronic diarrhoea. Dose: One or two ounces twice daily.
3. AGATI GRANDIFLORA
English :Agati Grandiflora
Hindi :Hadaga
Kanarese :Agashi
Tamil :Agatthi
Telugu :Avise
Malayalam :Agatti
Marathi :Agasta
Gujarati :Agathiyo
Bengali :Buko
Sanskrit :Agastya
This is found in abundance in India. It is a tree which grows to the height of 20 or 30 feet. It is
cultivated also.
(i) The Uses of Leaves
The leaves, flowers, bark are useful. The leaf is an anti-dote, refrigerant, febrifuge, laxative and
digestive. It removes biliousness and digests the food. The leaves are prepared in South India
as a vegetable and taken on the day following Ekadasi, i.e., Dvadasi days (12th day of the
fortnight).
(ii) The Uses of Juice
Instill 2 or 3 drops of the juice of the leaf into the nose. Quotidian type of fever will be cured.
Quotidian fever comes on the fourth day. Headache and nasal catarrh also will be re-lieved.
CHAPTER II
AJOWAN, ALOES, ALUM, AMLA, ANISE, ARAI KEERAI
4.AJOWAN
Hindi :Ajowan
Tamil :Omum
Telugu :Omamu, Vaamu
(i) Ajowan Its Usefulness
This is a very good digestive. It has a good aroma. It has carminative properties, i.e., it expels
wind from the bowels. It relieves intestinal colic. It has antispasmodic properties, i.e., it relieves
spasms or contraction of the muscles of the bowels. It is pungent and stimulating. It is useful in
dyspepsia, diarrhoea, flatulence, vomiting of cholera.
(ii) Its Properties and preparations

It is mixed with rock-salt, asafoetida, ginger, black pepper, cardamum, Chhoti Har or
myrobalans chubelic to form a diges-tive powder. The two chief preparations of Ajowan are:
arrack or omum water (Aqua Ptychotis) and oil of Ajowan. Ajowan has all the properties of
thymol. It kills intestinal parasites. The seed contains an oil which has 50% thymol in it.
Omum water (Aqua Ptychotis) is useful in diarrhoea, wind in the bowels, indigestion. Two
tablespoonfuls of omum water can be taken. One ounce of omum laudanum water can be
mixed with one ounce of lime water and 5 drops of laudanum or Tr. Opii.
5. ALOES
English : Indian Aloes

Hindi Kanarese : Kumari, Ghikanvar
Tamil : Kathalai Gida, Lolisara
Telugu : Kartazhai : Kalabanda
Malayalam : Kattuvazha, Katar Vazha
Marathi : Korakanda
Gujarati : Kumara
Bengali : Musabhar, Ghrita Kumari
Sanskrit : Kumari
(i) Its Varieties
Small aloe, big aloe, red aloe. It is difficult to get the red variety. The properties of all the
varieties are the same. It tastes sweet. Ghrita Kumari as a fresh juice is much used in Ayurvedic
medicine. The inspissated juice is popularly called Musabhar.
It is the solid extract from exudation. It is the juice obtained from the transversed cut leaves of
various species of aloe. It occurs in hard masses, yellowish or black-brown in colour with a
characteristic smell. It is fairly soluble in alcohol and also in water.
Bazaar aloes must be purified by boiling in water, allowing to stand for ten hours, then straining
and setting aside in an open vessel till it evaporate to dryness.
This is a good purgative but is not suitable for pregnant women, children and those who have
piles, and in inflamma-tory condition of the pelvic organs.
(ii) Its Properties & Uses
Aloe has tonic, alterative, purgative and emmanagogue properties. It acts chiefly on the large
intestine. It is a bitter tonic. It is the slowest of all purgatives. It takes fifteen hours to act. It
relieves habitual constipation.
In small doses it is a stomachic bitter. It invigorates the stomach. In absence of menstruation

and anaemia (poverty of blood) it is combined with iron. It is a tonic cathartic in habitual
constipation associated with ammenorrhoea and anaemia.
It comes mainly from West India Islands. Its active prin-ples are (1) Aloin and (2) Emodin. It also
contains a little resin, a trace of gallic acid and a volatile oil. Dose: 2 to 5 grains.
Aloes pill. Dose: 4 to 8 grains. Aloes and iron pill. dose: 4 to 8 grains. Aloes and asafoetida pill.
(useful in hysteria and flatulence). Dose: 4 to 8 grains. These are all preparations of aloes.
Aloin is a pale yellow powder with a bitter taste. Dose: y4 to 1 grain.
Mix the fresh inner pulp of aloes with sesamum oil. Boil. This helps the growth of hair. This
medicated oil bath brings good sleep.
If you clean the fresh inner pulp of aloes with water several times, it is purified. Put this in a
clean cloth, fold the cloth and foment the eyes. This is useful in conjunctivitis, swelling of the eye
lids.
6. ALUM
English : Alum
Hindi : Phitkari
Kanarese : Phatikara
Tamil : Patikaram
Telugu : Pathikaramu
Marathi : Phatiki
Bengali : Phatkiri
Sanskrit : Sphatikari
(i) Description
Alum has an acid, sweetish, astringent taste. It is a crystal-line, semi-transparent mass. It looks
like sugar candy crystal. Some take it with great avidity and cupidity, taking it for sugar candy
and throw it off with a peculiar castor-oil face.
If the bazzar alum is not pure, you can render it pure by dissolving it in pure water, straining and
evaporating the solu-tion. You will get pure crystals of alum.
(ii) Uses of Alum
Alum is a powerful astringent. It stops bleeding from wounds, from the nose. Plug the nostril
with a small piece of clean cloth or cotton wool dipped in a solution of alum. It will stop the
bleeding at once. It stops bleeding from the gums. It is an ingredient in tooth powder. Alum can
be purified and dehy-drated by puttting it in the fire or by putting it in the frying pan and then
putting the frying pan over the fire. Then you can pow-der it nicely and easily.
It is used as a gargle for sore throat, as an application to the eyes in conjuntivitis or sore eyes. It
is used as a wash for sore nipples. It is used for douching the vagina in Ieucorrhoea. It is
seldom used internally but it is useful in diarrhoea and other chronic discharges.
During rainy season when the water is dirty and full of sed-iments, take a big piece of alum and
stir the water 5 to 6 times with this piece. Within ten or fifteen minutes the water will be-come
clear. Do not put the alum piece in the water. Mere stirring the water with the piece will serve
your purpose.
Alum tablet is applied to the face after shaving. It removes pimples and freckles on the face and
renders the skin smooth and glossy.
7. AMLA
English : Indian Gooseberry

Hindi : Amlaka, Amla
Tamil : Nellikai
Telugu : Usirikaya
Malayalam : Nellikkai
Sanskrit : Amalaki
(i) Description
Taste: Sour, astringent and sweet. This Amla or Nellikkai (Phyllanthus Emblica), which is very
rich in Vitamin C, is a very cheap and common fruit. This, indeed, is one of the richest nat-ural
sources of Vitamin C. Amla grows abundantly in all Indian forests. It is obtainable in unlimited
quantities from January to April. Its fresh juice contains nearly twenty times as much Vita-min C
as orange juice. A single fruit is equivalent in Vitamin C to one or two oranges.
Amla has been held in high esteem in India since time im-memorial and is included as an
ingredient in many Ayurvedic medicines and tonics. Tablets made from Amla are now being
used to supply Vitamin C to soldiers. The use of Amla tablets will help to prevent the occurrence
of scurvy and safeguard health and physical efficiency when there is a shortage of fruits and
vegetables. Fresh Amla is the most effective cure for scurvy.
The fresh fruit is diuretic and laxative. A good cooling bev-erage can be made from the fresh
fruits. The dried fruit is astrin-gent and is useful in diarrhoea and dysentery.
Amla is a very important ingredient in the most famous confection, Chyavanaprash. It is one of
the constituents of Triphala powder.
(ii) Amla Sherbet
Re: Juice of fresh Amla 4 teaspoonfuls

Sugar 3 tablespoonfuls
Water 16 ounces
This is a good sherbet or beverage. It is diuretic and laxa-tive too.
(iii)A Laxative
Re: Amla Powder 4 teaspoonfuls

Myrobalans 4 teaspoonfuls
Bahera 4 teaspoonfuls
Water 20 ounces
Boil for twenty minutes and strain. Dose: Two ounces in the early morning. This is a good
laxative. It corrects digestion.
Amla removes excessive salivation, biliousness, vomit-ing, constipation, giddiness,

spermatorrhoea, internal heat of the body, seminal weakness, menstrual disorders in women,
and bestows beauty.
Make a paste of Amla, apply it to the head and take bath. Burning in the eyes will be cured. The
brain and head will be cooled.
Amlakalpa, Amla Oil, Amla Drink and Amla Confection are preparations of Amla. Amla Oil is
excellent for the head. Apply a small quantity to the head before bath. It will cool the head and
the brain and remove ninety-six diseases of the eye, night-blindness and bilious giddiness.
Amla confection is useful in syphilis, flatulence, bronchitis, asthma and consumption.
8. ANISE
(SOMB, PERUM JEERAKAM)
Tamil : :Sombu
Telugu :Somp
It is the dried fruit of Pimpinella Anisum, obtained from many parts of India and also from middle
and south Europe. It is a carminative, stomachic and an atomatic stimulant. It has an agreeable,
aromatic odour.
Oil of anise (oleum anise) is a volatile oil, distilled from the anise fruit. Dose: 1 to 3 minims. It is
usually used for flatulence in children. In allopathic system there is Spirit of Anise. Dose: 6 to 20
minims.
Re: Anise 4 drachms
Sugar 4 drachms
Mix. Dose: 1 teaspoonful twice daily
(i) Digestive Powder
The anise must be gently fried and powdered. Useful in cough, indigestion, flatulence, colic, etc.
(ii) Aqua Anise
Re: Anise seed 1 ounce

Water (Distilled) 40 ounce
Distill to 20 ounces or boil till it is reduced to 20 ounces and strain. Dose: 1 ounce. This is a
basis for all cough mix-tures. It is an, expectorant and anti-spasmodic in bronchitis or cough.
(iii) For Cough

Re: Honey 2 teaspoonfuls
Anise water 1 ounce
Mix well. Useful in bronchitis or cough. You can add 2 tea-spoonfuls Syrup Vasaka.
(iv) A Digestive Powder
Re: Anise 1 ounce

Cuminseed 1 ounce
Gently fry. Dose: 1 teaspoonful after food; twice daily.
(v) A Gentle Laxative
Anise seed 1 drachm

Myrobalans 1 drachm
Sugar 1 drachm
Take this in the early morning or at bed time.
9. ARAI KEERAI
(AMARANTUS TRISTIS)
Kanarese : Harive Soppu

Tamil : Araikeerai
Telugu : Koiya-Kura
Malayalam : Arakirai
(i) Introductory
This is a small herb that is cultivated in South India. The leaves and seeds are used. This is a
stimulant and aphrodi-siac.
(ii) Uses of Arai Keerai
This is eaten as a vegetable. This is useful in fevers, cough, tremor, collapse, rheumatism and
paralysis. It will in-crease the semen and sexual vigour.
Put the seeds into a fresh coconut from which the water is taken out and bury it underneath the
earth for 40 days. Then take it out. Remove the shell. Mix the powder of kernel with sesamum
oil and boil. Cool it and strain. Apply this oil to the head. Diseases of the head will be cured. The
hair will become black and grow nicely.
CHAPTER III
ASAFOETIDA, ASOKA, ASTERCANTHA LONGIFOLIA
10. ASAFOETIDA
English : Asafoetida
Hindi : Hing
Kanarese : Ingu
Tamil : Kayam, Perungayam
Telugu : Inguva
Sanskrit : Hingu
(i) Some Particulars
Dose: 5 to 15 grains. Taste: Bitter. Asafoetida is the gum resin of a plant growing in Persia and
Northern India. It grows in Kashmir, Afghanistan and Turkistan. It is used as a spice in pre-
paring vegetables, soups, etc. Pilula Aloeset Asafoetida and Tr. Asafoetida are official
preparations of Asafoetida. There is also a white variety. It is called 'Soma Kayam' or 'Pal
Kayam'. It is more vigorous.
It occurs in the forrn of irregular masses of dull yellow col-our, becoming darker on keeping. It is
obtained by incising the root of Ferula Fetida and other similar species. It contains a vol-atile oil
with its characteristic unpleasant smell and also resin and gum. It is a stimulant, expectorant,
antispasmodic and car-minative. It brings out sputum easily and expels wind from the bowels. It
is beneficial in flatulence and the early stages of diar-rhoea or cholera. It is useful in hysterical
fits and nervous affec-tions in women.
It is a laxative (Laghu Vitechani), anthelmintic (Kriminasini or destroyer of worms), diuretic

(Mootravardhini), and ammenagogue (Rituvardhini). It is generally given in combina-tion with
other remedies.
(ii) For Wind and Colic Bowels
Re: Asafoetida 1 teaspoonful

Rock Salt 1 teaspoonful
Ajowan 1 teaspoonful
Myrobalan Her 1 teaspoonful
Dried Ginger 1 teaspoonful
Cardamom 1 teaspoonful
Powder and mix. Dose: 10 grains. Useful in flatulence and intestine colic. It will energise
digestion and increase appetite.
(iii)Asafoetida Enema
Re: Asafoetida 30.grains

Water 8 oz.
(iv) For Hysteria
Re: Asafoetida 2 drachms
Boiling water 10 ounces
Strain and cool. Add musk 30 grains. Dose: 1 teaspoonful, thrice daily. This can be taken
without musk also.
(v) A Good Digestive Powder
(PACHAKA CHOORAN)
Re: Asafoetida 1 teaspoonful

Dried Ginger 1 teaspoonful
Long Pepper 1 teaspoonful
Ajowan Seeds 1 teaspoonful
Cumin Seeds 1 teaspoonful
Black Pepper 1 teaspoonful
Rock Salt 1 teaspoonful
Powder and mix well. Dose: 10 to 20 grains. This is Kshudha Vardhak Choorna also. It
increases the appetite and invigorates the Jataragni or digestive fire.
(vi) Asafoetida Ear Drops
Re: Asafoetida 60 grains

Sesamum oil 2 ounces
Put the asafoetida in the oil, boil and strain. Instil a few drops into the ear and plug it with cotton
wool.
(vii) For Scorpion Sting
Make a paste of asafoetida with a little water and apply it over the part stung by scorpion. The
pain will vanish.
11. ASOKA
English : Asoka-tree
Hindi : Asok, Anganapriya
Kanarese : Kenkalimara, Asoka
Tamil : Asogu
Telugu :Asokamu
Malayalam : Asogam
Marathi :Ashoka
Gujarati :Asupala
Bengali :Anganapriya
Sanskrit :Asoka, Gandhapushpa
(i) Description
Asoka removes the grief of women; hence the name. The bark of Asoka is used in Ayurveda. It
has considerable reputa-tion in uterine diseases. It is a strong astringent. It is used in checking
uterine haemorrhage or bleeding from the womb, menorrhagia or excessive menstruation, and
bleeding of piles. The Asoka tree is cultivated in the Western Ghats, Ganjam and
Visakapatnam. The flower is red. It is in the form of a bunch. It flowers in February and March.
Asoka is an astringent, uterine sedative and uterine tonic.
(ii) For Dysentery
Re: Asoka Flower (powder) 30 grains

Water 2 ounces
Mix: one dose. To be taken twice daily. Useful in dysentery with discharge of blood and mucus.
(iii) Asoka Decoction
Re: Asoka Bark 6 ounces

Milk 6 ounces
Water 20 ounces
Boil to a quarter and strain. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. Useful in menorrhagia or excessive
discharge of menses bleeding from the womb. The womb will be strengthened. All diseases of
the womb will be cured.
The decoction must be freshly prepared daily. Take the fresh juice from the bark and give a
tablespoonful twice daily.
Useful in menorrhagia and all diseases of the womb. Tincture of Asoka is also available.
In Ayurveda there are two preparations, viz., Asokarishta (decoction) and Asoka Ghrita (ghee).
(iv) Asokarishta (Asokamritam)
Dose: to 2 tolas twice daily after meals. Specially useful in leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, pain in the
womb, irregular monthly periods, scanty menstrual discharge, amenorrhoea or absence of
menstruation, painful menstruation, displaced uterus, congested uterus, sterility and other
complaints. This is an alterative and stimulant. This prevents miscarriage and re-stores normal
action to the uterus. It restores tone to the uterine system and removes all abnormal conditions.
It also eradicates general debility, distaste for food, anaemia and weakness after confinement. It
improves the conceptive capacity and in-creases general strength.
(v) Asoka Ghrita
Dose: yzi to 1 tola to be taken twice daily. Useful in leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, chlorosis, dark
discharges, pain in the waist, back or womb and other female complaints.
Asoka is a real friend of the fair sex. It gives longevity, strength, nutrition and improves the
complexion and beauty. What Sterri's Vibutero or Aletris Cordial is to Allopathic doctors,
Asokarishta or Asoka Ghrita is to Ayurvedic Kavirajs or Vaids. What Hydrastis or Viburnum or
Ergot is to Allopaths, Asoka is to Ayurvedic doctors.
12. ASTERCANTHA LONGIFOLIA
English : Hygrophila Spinosa

Hindi : Talmalkhana, Goksura
Kanarese : Kollavalike
Tamil : Nirmulli
Telugu : Nirugobbi
Malayalam : Vayalchulli
Marathi : Kolsundara
Gujarati : Ekharo
Bengali : Kanta-kalika
Sanskrit : Kokilaksha
(i) Description
It grows spontaneously in wet places throughout India. It is a kind of thorn. The seed and root
are obtainable in bazaars. It is sweet and slightly bitter.
The leaf is demulcent and diuretic. The root is refrigerant, diuretic and demulcent. The seed is
diuretic and aphrodisiac.
(ii) Kokilaksha Decoction
Re: Root of Kokilaksha 1 ounces

Water 20 ounces
Boil for 15 minutes and then strain. Dose: 1 oz. thrice daily. Useful in ascites or dropsy or
swelling of belly on account of water and swelling of body and difficulty in passing urine. This
acts as a diuretic and helps the free flow of urine in large quantities. Thus the swelling is
reduced.
(iii) Kokilaksha Infusion
Re: Astercantha leaves freshly

dried 2 ounces
Distilled vinegar 16 ounces
Macerate for 3 days. Press and strain. Dose: 2 table-spoonfuls in 2 ounces of water three times
a day. Useful in dropsy, ascites, difficulty in passing urine, etc.
(iv) Aphrodisiac Tonic
Re: Kokilaksha seeds 1 tablespoonful

Milk 1/2 seer
Soak the seeds in the milk and the sugar and drink in the morning and at night. Useful in
impotency or sexual debility.
CHAPTER IV
ASWAGANDHA ATIS OR ATEES
13.ASWAGANDHA
(WINTER CHERRY, WITHANIA SEMNIFERA, DUNAL)
English Winter Cherry

Hindi Aswagandh
Kanarese Sogade-beru
Tamil Amukkurak kizhangu, Achuvagandi
Telugu Penneru-gadda
Malayalam Amukkuram
Marathi Asagandha
Gujarati Asundha
Bengali Aswagandha
Sanskrit Ashvagandha
(i) Description
This is a small plant cultivated in India and Baluchistan. It is an erect shrubby plant. The leaves,
seeds and the root are used. The leaf is a febrifuge. The seed is a diuretic. The root is an
alterative, aphrodisiac, deobstruent, diuretic, tonic, nutritive, hypnotic and sedative.
Aswagandha increases the Jatharagni or gastric fire and so it is an appetizer. It is useful in
Rheuma-tism, eczema, anaemia, dropsy, fever, swelling, debility, etc. Aswagandha Choorna
(powder), Aswagandha Rasayana (Confection), Aswagandha Tel (oil) are made out of
Aswagandha.
(ii) Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)—I
( Re: Aswagandha root powder 1 part

Sugar candy 4 parts
Mix well. Dose: One teaspoonful twice daily. The dose of the plain powder is 20 to 40 grains.
Drink half a seer of cow's milk after taking the powder. Tonic and alterative. Useful in
spermatorrhoea, sexual and nervous debility, rheumatism, old age, consumption, emaciation of
children, nervous diseases and leucorrhoea. It gives strength, vigour and vitality. It in-creases
the semen. Boil the root in cow's milk, wash it and dry it. Then make a powder.
(iii) Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)—II
Re: Aswagandha Powder 30 grains

Honey 1 teaspoonful
Mix: One dose. To be taken twice daily. Useful in cough, rheumatism, dyspepsia, corpulence or
obesity, swelling of body, debility, etc. It gives strength and vigour and increases semen. The
powder can be taken along with ghee.
(iv) Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-111
Dose: 20 to 80 grains. To be taken morning and evening with milk. The only two ingredients are
Aswagandha and Vriddha-darak. Alterative and tonic. Removes sexual debility,
spermatorrhoea, debility from old age, leucorrhoea, etc. A paste of the root is a valuable
nutriment for children and adults. It is taken with milk and ghee.
Aswagandha confection (Rasayana) is beneficial in pul-monary Tuberculosis, debility from

senility or old age and rheu-matism, emaciation of children, leprosy, nervous diseases, nervous
debility, leucorrhoea. It acts as an alterative tonic and nutriment.
Narayana Tel contains Aswagandha. It is dropped into the nose in deafness. It is rubbed over
the body in paralysis, hemiplagia, rheumatism, tetanus and lumbago.
The leaves act as a sedative and hypnotic and relieve pain. The leaves are smeared with castor
oil and applied to car-buncles.
(v) Aswagandha Decoction
Re: Aswagandha leaves 1 teaspoonful

Water 4 ounces
Boil and strain: One dose.Useful in fever.
(vi) Aswagandha Paste
Take the fresh root. Make a paste with cow's urine. Then heat the paste. This is a useful
application in lumbago, scrof-ula, rheumatic swellings. Make a paste of the root with equal part
of dried ginger. Use hot water for making the paste. Apply the paste to swell-ings. The swellings
will subside. This will serve the purpose of Antiphilogistine or Thermofuge.
The leaves also can be made into a paste and applied to painful swellings.
(vii) Aswagandhadi Pills 5-Grains
Dose: 1 to 4 pills to be taken twice daily followed by milk. Efficacious in sexual debility.
Removes general debility and tones the nerves
(viii) Aswagandha Arishta—I
It is a sovereign remedy for all cases of debility arising from sexual and bodily exhaustion due to
overwork, etc. It is an invigorating tonic for brain and nerves. It increases memory, gives sound
sleep and removes loss of appetite. Dose: 1X to 2 tolas to be taken twice a day. The chief
ingredients are Aswagandha, sugar, Musali, Manjistha, Haritaki, Rasna, etc.
(ix) Aswagandha Arishta II

Tonic and alterative. Useful in epilepsy, impotency, hyste-ria, general and nervous debility. It
increases brain power. It is a brain tonic. It promotes digestion, enriches blood. It has a tonic
action on the nerve centres. It recuperates lost vigour, builds up the wasted frames, restores
health, strength and brings back to the hopeless the joys of life. This has the power of quickly
im-proving the brain matter that has been affected by the use of in-toxicants and smoking. It
improves the general health. This will also cure piles and nourish the vital fluids of the system.
Mental capacities are stimulated and vitalised. Dose: y2 to 1 oz. after food.
(x) Aswagandhi Ghritam
Ghritam means ghee. This is a marvellous preparation for restoring strength to the system.
Those who, by over exertion and by excessive sexual intercourse have become very weak,
consumptives, and those who have become weak owing to longstanding wasting diseases will
be relieved of all troubles and will recoup their original health and vitality. Even the old will be
rejuvenated. Women will develop their conceptive capacity by constant use of this medicine.
The resultant pregnancy will bear a fully developed child or foetus.
Rheumatism, paralysis agitar (Vatha Soola), urasthambam, jaundice, fevers and premature grey
hair will also be cured. Dose: X to 2 ozs.
(xi) Aswagandha Lehyam
Lehyam means confection. This gives good development to the whole body. It strengthens the
vital forces. This is highly beneficial for those who have become emaciated by sexual ex-cesses
and other causes. It is a brain tonic. It is antisyphilitic and blood purifier. Useful in debility
caused by venereal dis-eases, specially syphilis. Dose: 1 to 2 tolas morning before food and
evening after food. Take a cup or half a seer of milk af-ter taking the medicine.
14. ATIS OR ATEES
(ACONITUM HETEROPHYLLUM)
English :Indian atees

Hindi : Atis
Kanarese : Athivisha
Tamil : Atividayam
Telugu : Ativasa
Marathi : Ativisha
Gujarati : Atavasa
Bengali :Ataicha
Sanskrit :Ativisha
(i)Description
This is the root of Acontitum Heterphyllum. It is shotmachic, astringent, febrifuge, aphrodisiac,

tonic and anti periodic. It has a pure bitter taste. It has no acidity. Atisine is the alkaloid found in
Atis.
It is one inch long, wrinkled and grey in colour. It should be white on breaking across. It is a
valuable tonic after malarial fe-ver and a good bitter tonic. Atis is chiefly useful in intermittent
fever and other periodical fevers.
(ii) Atis Powder
Re: Atis Powder 30 grains
Mix with a little water. One Powder, 3 times a day during fever. It can be given every 4 hours
during the intermissions. Start its use during or towards termination of the sweating stage. For
children reduce the dose to one-half or three-fourths according to age.
(iii) Atis with Sugar
Re: Atis powder 10 grains
Sugar 2 teaspoonfuls
Dose: 1 powder, thrice daily. This is an excellent tonic for debility after fevers and other
diseases.
(iv)Atis with Honey
Re:Atis powder 10 grains
Honey 2 teaspoonfuls
Mix well. Dose: Three times daily. For intermitlent fevers. Debility afler fevers, diarrhoea due to
indigestion, dysentery, piles.
(v) Atis Co. Decoction
Re: Atis 4 drachms

Dried ginger 4 drachms
Amrita valli Seendil 4 drachms
Kurchi Kudasappalai bark 4 drachms
Korai or nut grass 4 drachms
Water 20 ounces
Boil down to a quarter. Dose: 1 or 2 ounces thrice daily. For fevers associated with diarrhoea.
(vi) Compound Atis Powder
Re: Atis powder 2 drachms

Korai or nut grass 2 drachms
Pala (Chitramutti) 2 drachms
Galls (Karkadaga Shringi) powder 2 drachms
For fevers associated with diarrhoea. If there is cough with sputum, add long pepper.
Re: Atis powder 20 grains

Dried ginger 20 grains
Kaladana 20 grains
Black pepper 20 grains
Does: 10 grains twice daily. A tonic and a laxative.
CHAPTER V
BABCHI SEEDS, BARLEY, BEL FRUIT
15. BABCHI SEEDS
English :Babchi Seeds

Hindi :Bavanchiyani, Baschi
Kanarese :Vakuchu
Tamil :Karpokarishi
Telugu :Bhavanchi-Vittulu
Malayalam :Karboga-ari
Marathi :Bavanchi
Bengali :Bawachi
Sanskrit :Vakuchi
(i) A Reputed Ayurvedic Medicine for Leucoderma
This is a reputed medicine of Ayurveda for leucoderma or white-skin. The active principles are
an essential oil and a resin. When the oil is locally applied, it dilates the subcalliarly blood
vessels. The skin becomes red and is stimulated. There-fore, its nutrition is improved;
melanoblasts are stimulated to form pigment which diffuses into the decolorised area. The oil
has potent action against skin streptococci.
Babchi is a brownish-black seed. It grows throughout In-dia. The seed is used for leprosy
internally and as an ointment externally. It is named as Kushtha Nasini because it destroys
leprosy.
The seed has alterative', laxative digestive, stimulant, aphrodisiac, anthelmentic, diuretic and
diaphoretic properties.
(ii) The Seeds, The Oil, The Tablet
Babchi seeds and Harital red (arsenic sulphide) in equal parts are made into fine powder and
then rubbed into a paste with cow's urine. The paste is applied on the patch. In a few days,
colour begins to change. Spots with normal colour begin to appear. The entire patch is healed in
a short time.
Babchi oil is now available. It may be used instead of seeds for making the pigment for
leucoderma.
Tablet Babchi/Harital is available. This may be made into paste with cow's urine or water for
application on patches of leucoderma.
1 An alterative is a drug that alters the morbid functioning and brings about health functioning of
the organ and blood stream. A laxative is a drug that moves the bowels gently. A digestive
invigorates digestion. A stimulant stimulates the bowels. An aphrodisiac stimulates and tones
the sexual organs. An anthelmentic destroys or expels worms from the bowels. A diuretic helps
the free flow of urine. A diaphoretic increases the free flow of perspiration and reduces
temperature.
16.BARLEY
English :Barley
Hindi :Jau
Kanarese :Jave-godi
Tamil :Valkothumai, Barlhiarisi
Telugu :Pachcha-yavalu
Marathi :Sattu
Gujarati :Cheno
Bengali :Jab
Sanskrit :Yava
(i) A Nutritive Food for the Anaemic
Barley is particularly rich in mineral matters. In this respect it is richer than wheat but its protein
content is lower than that of wheat. It is a nutritive food. It is highly beneficial for the anae-mic
and the nervous on account of its richness in iron and phos-phorus. It is a Sattvic food. Spiritual
aspirants take bread made out of barley. Barley has about the same nutritive value as whole
wheat but it contains less gluten and so it is not so easily made into bread.
(ii) Manifold Utility of Barley Water
Barley water is useful in dysentery, typhoid, fevers, diar-rhoea, urinary diseases and diseases of
kidneys. It has very lit-tle nutritive value. It is soothing and cooling. The value of barley water lies
in its demulcent properties. It removes burning sen-sation in the urine and helps the free flow of
urine.
(iii) Pearl Barley and the Powder
Pearl barley is the whole barley. One tola of Barley boiled in sixteen ounces of water makes a
palatable and soothing drink. It can be mixed with lemon juice, and sugar or salt to taste You
can add milk also. Boil for 10 or 15 minutes only. A ta-blespoonful of the powder (Robinson's
Barley) also can be used for preparing barley water.
17.Bel Fruit
English :Bael Fruit
Hindi Bel,Bael Sripal
Kanarese :Bilvapatri-Hannu,Bela
Tamil :Vilva or Bilva pazham
Telugu :Bilva pandu, Maredu pandu
Malayalam :Kuvalappazham, Kuvalam
Marathi :Belachaphala,Bela
Gujarati :Belaphal, Bilmiphal
Bengali :Bel, Siphal
Sanskrit :Sriphal,Bilva
This is the fruit of Aegle Marmelos. It is also called stone-apple. Dose: Half a fruit. Taste: Sweet
and astringent.
(i) Uses of the Half-Ripe Fruit
The half-ripe fruit is the best. The unripe or half-ripe fruit is astringent, digestive and stomachic.
It binds the bowels. The ripe-fruit is laxative, aromatic and cooling. The fruit is about the size of
an orange, with a hard wooden rind. It contains seeds and tenacious transparent pulp. It has a
mild turpentine-like smell and taste. It contains tannin (tannic acid) and therefore acts as an
astringent to the bowels. It contains also gums, a vegetable acid and a very small quantity of
sugar.
(ii) Uses of the Unripe Fruit
The unripe fruit is roasted with a covering of mud and the softened pulp is mixed up with water
and sugar or butter milk. This is highly beneficial in sub-acute and chronic dysentery of
diarrhoea. It is particularly useful in the irregularity of the bow-els in children, characterised by
alternate diarrhoea and consti-pation, because it acts like a mild stimulant to the intestinal
mucus membrane and thereby checks diarrhoea and acts as a laxative when there is
constipation.
Bel is highly beneficial in cases of obstinate diarrhoea and dysentery when unattended by fever
and the patient is weak and dyspeptic. It is a good adjunct or auxiliary to specifics in all stages
of diarrhoea or dysentery.
The half-ripe fruit can be sliced, dried, powdered and taken with water or butter-milk. It is
particularly useful when there are signs of scurvy. Fluid extract of dried Bel is very ser-viceable.
Dose: Half to one drachm or one teaspoonful.
(iii) The Pulp, The Leaf & The Root
The pulp of the dried Bel fruit powdered and mixed with a certain proportion of arrowroot is
called "Dietetic Bel". It is a good substitute in a patient's diet on account of its pleasant,
agreeable, aromatic flavour. It is available in chemist's shops.
Bel leaf is useful in diabetes mellitus. A diabetic can chew a few leaves daily. Juice can be
extracted from the fresh leaves and drunk. Some Sadhus live on Bel leaves alone. Bel leaves
have a very good aroma. They are diaphoretic (produces more perspiration and thus reduces
temperature), aphrodisiac (sex-ual stimulant) and febrifuge (lowers the temperature). The gum
of the inside pulp of Bel fruit is aphrodisiac (Kama-vardhani).
The reputed Vilvadi Lehiam or Bel confection is made out of the root of Bel tree. A bathing oil is
also made out of Bel fruit.
(iv) Prescriptions
1. Syrup of Bel
Re: Pulp of Bel Half a fruit

Water 8 ounces
Reject the stringy pieces. This may be taken thrice daily.
2. Be! Sherbet
Re: Pulp of Bel 3 fruits

Boiling Water 20 ounces
Allow to cool and add sugar. Dose: 2 ounces, four times daily. Useful in dysentery, diarrhoea
and sprue
3 Bel Decoction
Re: Dried Fruit or Half-ripe Fruit 4 ounces

Water 20 ounces
Reject rind and seeds. Boil till you get 10 ounce of decoc-tion. Strain. Add sugar, sufficient
quantity. Dose: two ounces, thrice daily. 2 teaspoonfuls for a child. Useful in dysentery, diar-
rhoea and sprue.
4.Dysentery Powder
Re: Bel Fruit (Powder) 10 grains

lsafgul (Powder) 10 grains
Fennel 10 grains
Make one powder. Dose: one powder thrice daily.
5.Diarrhoea Power-I
Re: Bel Fruit (unripe) powder 10 grains

Pulvis catechu 5 grains
Pulvis Kino 5 grains
Pulvish Cinnamon 5 grains
Sugar 5 grains
Make one powder. Dose: Twice or thrice daily.
6. Diarrhoea Powder-11

Butea Gum (Palas-ki-Gond) 5 grains
Pulvis Cinnamon 5 grains
Make one powder. Dose: 1 powder twice or thrice daily.
7. Diarrhoea and Dysentery
Re: Soft pulp of unripe fruit 1 fruit

Butter milk 8 ozs.
Remove the rind, seeds and fibres. Mix well. Add a little sugar or a little black pepper-powder
and salt. Dose: Twice or thrice daily.
8. Dysentery Powder

Kurchi 5 grains
Isafgul 5 grains
Pomegranate (rind of the fruit) 5 grains
Mangosteen (rind of the fruit) 5 grains
Make one powder. Dose: 1 powder twice or thrice daily. This is very useful and potent
CHAPTER VI
BETEL LEAF, BETEL NUT, BILWA TREE
18.BETEL LEAF
The fresh leaves of Chavica betel or Piper betel.
English Betel Leaf

Hindi Paan
Kanarese Viilayadely
Tamil Vettrilai
Telugu Tamalapaku
Malayalam Vethila
Marathi Vidyachipaan
Gujrathi Paan
Bengali Punj
Sanskrit Nagavalli
(i) Uses of the Leaf
It is a creeper. It is cultivated enormously in India. It is a stimulant, carminative. astringent,

aphrodisiac, antiseptic, feb-rifuge, stomachic, tonic, digestive, lactagogue and sialogogue. It
contains an aromatic and astringent oil.
It is chewed along with lime, catechu, betel-nut, carda-mom, nutmeg and cloves. Betel chewing
removes hoarseness of voice, flatulence or wind in the stomach and bowels, intesti-nal colic and
pain in the stomach.
(ii) Betel Poultice
In coughs of children and adults where there is difficulty of breathing, warm the betel leaves and
smear them with gingily or castor oil and apply them in layers over the chest. This will give
speedy and marked relief.
Betel juice mixed with a little lime can be applied to the throat externally in sore throat. The
same application over the liver is beneficial, in congestion and other affections of the liver. The
leaf can be used as a dressing for burns.
If a necessity for arresting the secretion of milk in mother arises, warm the betel leaves over the
fire and place them in layers over the breasts. This is very effective. It will reduce swelling of
breasts. Such application is useful in reducing glan-dular swellings.
Instil 2 or 3 drops of betel leaf juice into the nose. Heavi-ness of head will be immediately
relieved. Put 2 or 3 drops into the ears. Ear-ache will be relieved.
(iii) Betel Leaf-Ginger Juice
Re: Betel leaf juice 1/2 teaspoonful

Fresh Ginger juice 1/2 teaspoonful
Honey 1 teaspoonful
Mix one dose. Useful in desease of lungs. Take this mixture twice daily.
(iv) Songsters’Friend
Chew the root of betel. It will sweeten strengthen the voice of songsters.
(v) Betel Juice and Golochan
Re: Betel Juice 1 teaspoonful

Golochan 2 grains
Mix. Useful in difficuly of breathing, cough with much accumulation of sputum.
(vi) Betel Decoction
Re: Betel leaves 3 ounces

Black pepper (powder) 4 ounces
Water 4 ounces
Boil and strain. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls twice daily. Useful in indigestion of children.
(vii) Betel Suppository
Dip the end portion of the betel (stick) in castor oil and in-troduce it into the anus of children.
This will relieve flatulence or wind in the bowels and constipation. This is a cheap, readily
available, suppository for children.
Mercury is purified by the juice of betel.

19. BETEL NUT
(ARECA NUT)
English : Areca
Hindi : Supari
Kanarese : Adike
Tamil : Pakku
Telugu : Poka
Malayalam : Kazhanga
Marathi : Supari
Gujarati : Supari
Bengali : Supari
Sanskrit : Kramuka, Pooga
(i) Uses
The kernel of the fruit of Areca-catechu. It is astringent, carminative, stimulant and vermifuge. It
is useful in diarrhoea due to indigestion, diseases that are associated with urine, worms in the
bowels such as tape-worm, round-worm, thread-worm; diseases of teeth and gums, leucorrhoea
of women.
(ii) Powder for Diarrhoea
Re: Areca Nut powder 10 grains

Sugar 10 grains
Dose: 1 powder thrice daily. Useful in diarrhoea and dis-eases that are associated with urine.
(iii) Areca Nut Decoction
Re: Areca Nut powder 4 teaspoonful

water 20 ounces
Boil for half an hour and strain. Use this as a gargle. All diseases of the gums such as spongy
gums, etc., will disap-pear. The gums will be strengthened. This is useful as an injec-tion in
leucorrhoea of women. Use a small syringe.
(iv) Areca Nut Tooth Powder
Burn it till it is charred. Powder it and strain through a fine cloth.
(v) Compound Areca Nut Tooth Powder
Re: Burnt Areca nut powder 1 ounce

Catechu 1 ounce
Cinnamon powder 1 ounce
Camphor 30 grains
Mix and strain. Useful and cheap tooth powder. The gums also will be strengthened. Loose
teeth will be steadily fixed. It will relieve pain in the teeth. It will kill worms in the teeth (cari-ous
tooth).
(vi) Areca Root Decoction
Re: Areca root 4 ounces
Water 20 ounces
Boil and strain. Useful as a gargle for ulcers in the lips and mouth and diseases of the gums.
(vii) For Tape-Worm
Re: Areca-nut powder 1 teaspoonful
Milk 6 ounces
Useful in tape-worm.
(viii) For Round and Thread-Worms
Re: Areca nut powder 1 teaspoonful
Lemon juice (or pomegranate juice) ½ ounces
Mix. Take internally.
The tender areca-nut is useful for pain in the stomach and the bowels.
Fry the tender sprout with a little gingily oil and apply as a poultice in rheumatic pain and
swelling.
20. BILWA TREE
The Bilwa tree grows in almost all parts of India irrespec-tive of the nature of the soil.
(i) Its Properties
The Bilwa being bitter, astringent and dry, causes consti-pation but promotes digestion. It cures
all diseases caused by Vata (wind) and gives strength to the body.
Though the above-mentioned are some of the general properties of the Bael, certain portions of
the tree possess spe-cial properties.
(ii) Its Uses
The unripe fruit cures Vata, Kapha, indigestion, stomach-ache and dyspepsia. This is stomachic
to a high degree and causes constipation more than the root. The leaves possess the excellent
property of alleviating diseases caused by Vata and Kapha. The flowers of the tree are found to
cure diarrhoea, vomiting and thirst.
(iii) Parts Used
The root of the tree is the most important. The fruit, flowers and the leaves are also medicinal. In
Kerala the roots are used for medicine after casting away the outer skin on it.
(iv) Medical Preparations
There are various medicinal preparations making use of the root, leaves, fruits and flowers out
of which some of the sim-ple preparations may be enumerated.
A decoction made out of the root of Bael with dried ginger and roasted paddy if taken in small
doses will cure vomiting. A decoction made out of the root of Bael with the tuberous root of
Padha (cissempelos pereird) will be efficacious in persons suf-fering from piles. The very same
preparation is found to be use-ful in cases of dysentery and diarrhoea. Take a well-cleaned root
of Bael and at one of its tips roll a piece of silk and after dip-ping that portion in oil, set fire to the
tip of the root holding it in such a way as to allow drops of the oil from the burning parts to fall
down. Such drops of oil, if collected, cooled and poured into the ears will cure ear-ache. Eight
ounces of oil mixed with 32 ounces of the express juice of Bilwa leaves, the mixture boiled till
the water is completely evaporated and the oil got out of it, will have splendid results if applied
on the head of persons suf-fering from nasal catarrh and diseases of the ear. The same oil
warmed and poured into the ear will cure ear-ache, suppura-tion that is caused in the ear and
deafness. The decoction of the root is useful in intermittent fever. The fresh juice of the leaves is
given with the addition of black-pepper in anasarca with costiveness and jaundice and when
diluted with water or honey, it is a highly-praised remedy in catarrh and feverish-ness.
There are many preparations that could be made out of the fruits also. Though in almost all
cases the fruits of the plans are found to be with the best results while they are ripe, the un-ripe
are more medicinal. The unripe fruits, if sun-dried will be far better. The pulp inside the fruit
taken and a confection made cut of it in combination with Amrita (Tensopora cordifolia) with a
little honey will suddenly stop vomiting. Milk boiled with the pulp of the fruits if taken in,
according to digestion, will cure dysen-tery.
CHAPTER VII
BLACK PEPPER, BONDUC NUT, BORAX
21.BLACK PEPPER
(KALI MIRCH)
The dried, unripe fruit of Piper Nigrum is known as black pepper. It is cultivated in Malabar,
Cochin, Coorg and Mysore.
(i) Properties and Uses
It has carminative, antiperiodic, counter-irritant, rubefacient, stimulant, resolvant stomachic and

anti-vata or anti-rheumatic properties. It is useful in malaria, fever with rigor, ascites,:cough,
chronic diarrhoea, gastric catarrh, rheu-matism, nausea, anorexia, piles, epilepsy gonorrhoea,
spermatorrhoea, paralysis, pain in the ear, indigestion and jaundice. Pepper is an ingredient in
Ayurvedic tooth powders.
A bath with pepper Tailam (oil) and hot water is useful in paralysis, rheumatism, heaviness in
head, deafness, ascites, asthma, headache, itching, debility, fever, etc. Dose: 10 to 15 grains or
more.
(ii) Cholera Pill
Re: Black pepper 20 grains

Asafoetida 20 grains
Opium 6 grains
Beat them well together and divide into 12 pills. Does.1 pill. Repeat it in a hour if required.
Useful cholera, diarrhoea.
(iii) Digestive powder
Re: Pepper powder 60 grains

Rock salt 60 grains
Dried ginger powder 60 grains
Cummin seeds powder 60 grains
Long pepper powder 60 grains
Mix well. Dose: One teaspoonful. Useful in indigestion, di-arrhoea, colic. This invigorates
digestion and augments the Jatharagni or digestive fire.
(iv)Pepper Confection
Re: Black pepper powder 4 drachms

Cumin (Jeera) powder 4 drachms
Honey 6 ounces
Rub them well together in a mortar. Dose: 1 to 2 teaspoon-fuls thrice daily. Useful in piles
haemorrhoid, prolapse or de-scent of rectum, etc. This a good digestive, too. This confection
can be mixed with equal parts of confection senna or confec-tion of sulphur.
(v) Pepper Infusion
Re: Black pepper powder 2 teaspoonfuls

This is a useful stimulant gargle in relaxed sore throat, hoarseness of voice, ulcer throat.
Pepper is useful in malaria. It is mixed with Tulsi leaves, a little dried ginger and sugar or sugar-
candy.
(vi) Pepper Tulsi Tea
Re: Black pepper 20 grains

Tulsi leaves fresh or dried 60 grains
Water (one tumbler)
Boil and strain. Add sugar and milk. Useful in malaria, cold in the nose and head, rheumatism,
pain all over the body.
(vii) For Growing Hair
Re: Pepper powder 60 grains

Onion 60 grains
Salt 60 grains
Rub well. Apply to the parts in the head which are eaten by worms. Hair will grow.
22. BONDUC NUT
(CAESAL PI NA BO NDUCELLA)
English :Molucca Bean

Hindi :Kat Kaliza, Kalkaranj
Kanarese :Gaj jag kay
Tamil Kazharchikkay
Telugu Gachchakaya
Malayalam Kalanchikkuru
Marathi Gajaga
Gujrathi Gajga
Bengali Nata
Sanskrit Kuberakshi
(i) Description
The seed of caesalpinia bonducella. This is an oval nut y2 inch long. It has a gray colour. It
contains a white, starchy ker-nel of a pure bitter taste. It is a antiperiodic, antispasmodic, tonic,
anthelmentic; febrifuge. The leaf is deobstruent and emmenagogue.
(ii) Bonduc Seed Powder
Re: Bonduc seed (powder) 1 ounce
Black pepper (powder) 1 ounce
Mix well and keep in a well-stoppered bottle. Dose: 15 to 30 grains 3 times daily for adults.
Useful in intermittent fevers. In smaller doses it is a good tonic in debility after fevers and other
diseases.
The bark of the root of the bonduc shrub in 10 grain doses is more effective in the above cases
than the seeds them-selves.
Make a paste of the seed with the white of egg and apply to swollen testicles. The swelling will
subside. You can apply a plain paste of the seed alone.
(iii) Bonduc Seed Tooth-powder
Re: Burnt seed powder 4 ounces

Arecanut burnt powder 4 ounces
Borax 2 drachms
Mix and strain through a cloth. Useful tooth-powder. Teeth will be strengthened. Tooth pain will
vanish:
(iv)Bonduc Seed Powder with Asafoetida
Re: Bonduc seed powder 10 grains

Asafoetida 3 grains
Dose: One powder twice or thrice daily along with butter-milk. Useful in gastric catarrh or
gastritis (ghunma). It will give strength to the body.
(v) Bonduc Leaf Poultice
Add cocoanut pulp to the leaf and gently fry with castor-oil. Apply this to swellings. The
swellings will subside. Swelling of testicles will also subside.
23.Borax
English Sodium Borati

Hindi Sodaga
Kanarese Bilisara
Tamil Venkaram
Telugu Vellisaram
Malayalam Ponkaram
Marathi Kankankhar
Gujrathi Tankamkhar
Bengali Sohaga
Sanskrit Tankana
(i) Description and Uses
Dose: 5 to 15 grains. It is known as Biborate of sodium. It is slightly alkaline in reaction. It is

prepared by the interaction of sodium carbonate on boric acid. It is soluble in cold water, freely
in glycerine, but not in alcohol. It is an antiseptic and parasiticide. It kills parasites. It is a local
sedative to inflamed mucus membrane. It relieves pain. It is frequently used as a dusting
powder or in lotion with water- or glycerine for the mouth, eyes, nose, and ears.
It is used to irrigate the lower bowels, bladder and genital passages of both sexes, various
wounded surfaces and si-nuses. For this purpose 2 or 4 per cent solution is usually em-ployed.
An ointment of borax with vaseline (1 to 9) makes a simple, non-irritating application.
Borax makes the urine slightly alkaline which is helpful in dissolving mucus out of the bladder. It
is an urinary disinfectant. A solution is used in leucorrhoea (whites) of females and gon-orrhoea
for internal wash.
(ii) Glycerine-Boracis
This is prepared by rubbing 12 parts of purified borax and 88 parts of glycerine in mortar.
(iii) Mel Boracis
This is prepared by rubbing 10 parts of powdered purified borax, and 65 parts of purified honey
and 25 parts of glycerine in a mortar (1 in 10). These two preparations are useful in sores in
mouth. They can be freely rubbed in the sores. They can be mixed with water and used as a
gargle for the mouth and throat in sere throat and sores in mouth. They will heal the sores
quickly and exercise a soothing influence. They can be used for sores on the nipples.
(iv) Plain Borax
Plain borax can be dissolved in water (1: 20 of water) and used as a gargle. Borax can be mixed
with equal parts of Potas-sium Chloras in the preparation of gargle. It can be used as an eye
drop. Put 5 grains in one ounce of pure water or distilled water. It removes irritation of the
genital organs. Soak a piece of cotton, wool or clean cloth in the lotion and keep it over the part.
(v) Borax Dehydrated
Borax can be dehydrated. Put it in a pan and heat the pan over the fire. Borax will swell like
alum and become white. Pow-der it and keep it in a clean dry bottle.
CHAPTER VIII
BUTEA SEEDS I & II, BUTTERMILK
24. BUTEA SEEDS-I
(THE SEEDS OF BUTEA FRONDOSA)
English Bastand Teak Seeds

Hindi Palas-ke-bij
Kanarese Muttaga-bija
Tamil Porasam-virai, Murukkam-virai
Telugu Moduga-vittulu, Plash-vittulu
Malayalam Murukka-vita
Marathi Palasa-cha-bij
Gujrathi Palas-paparo
Bengali Palas-papra
Sanskrit Palash
(i) The Leaf and the Seed
The leaf is astringent, tonic, aphrodisiac. The flower is aphrodisiac, diuretic, depurative and
tonic. The seed is laxative and anthelmintic. The gum is astringent.
Butea seed is thin, flat, oval or kidney shaped, of a brown colour, 1y4 to 1% inch in length. It has
neither taste nor smell. Soak the seed in water and remove the shell. Powder the ker-nel. Dose:
30 to 60 grains. The powder of fresh seeds is very effective. Old seeds are less effective.
(ii) For Round-worm, Tape-worm, Ulcers
Re: Kernel of Butea seeds

(Powder) 20 grams
Sugar 20 grams
Mix: One dose. The powder can also be mixed with honey and taken. Take 3 doses daily for
three days. Afterwards take castor oil on the morning of the fourth day. Useful in round-worm
and tape-worm.
Sprinkle the powder over the surface of unhealthy ulcers. If there are maggots they will be
destroyed.
25. BUTEA SEEDS-II
(PALAS-KI-BIJ )
The seeds of Butea Frondosa. Dose: 30 to 60 grains.
(i) The Powder, The Leaves and The Gum
Useful in round-worms and tape-worms. Soak the seeds in water and remove the testa. Powder
the kernel.
Re: Kernel of Butea seeds
(Powder) 20 grams
Sugar 10 grams
One dose three times daily for 3 days. Give castor oil on the fourth day. For round and tape-
worms.
The powder of the seeds is used for destroying maggots in unhealthy ulcers. Sprinkle the
powder over the surface of the ulcer.
The leaves of Butea or Palas are astringent, aphrodisiac and tonic; the flower is aphrodisiac,
diuretic and depurative. The seed is laxative and anthelmintic: the gum is astringent.
The gum gives strength to nerves, sperm, joints, intelli-gence and chest. Butea gum is an
excellent astringent similar to catechu (katha). The astringency is due to the presence of tannic
and gallic acids. As it is mild in operation it is suitable for children and delicate females. Dose:
10 to 30 grains. Useful in chronic diarrhoea, pyrosis, dyspepsia.
(ii) For Cobra Poison
Re: Juice of bark 1 teaspoonful

Juice of fresh ginger 1 teaspoonful
Mix. one dose. To be repeated every hour, for internal use.
(iii) Bark Decoction
Re: Bark of Butea 1 ounce
Water 10 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes and strain. Dose: 1 tablespoonful thrice daily. Useful in heaviness of head,
cold in the nose and head, cough.
(iv) Decoction of Butea Leaves
Re: Butea leaves 1 ounce

Water 10 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes and strain. Dose: 1 tablespoonful, thrice daily. Useful in piles, diarrhoea and
pain in the stomach and bowels.
The paste of the leaves can be applied to boils and swell-ings. They will subside. The flowers
can be boiled and then ap-plied to boils and swellings. Crush the flowers, boil and apply it to
swollen testicles. The swelling and inflammation will sub-side.
Re: Butea flowers 1 ounce

Water 10 ounces
Boil and strain. Dose: 1 ounce twice daily. This brings out menstrual flow. Useful in
amenorrhoea or absence of menstru-ation and dysmenorrhoea or difficulty of menstruation.
(v)Butea Root (Palas-ka-ark)

Re: Roots of Palas 4 ounces
Water 20 ounces
Distil. (For external use). This is useful in eye-diseases, particularly cataract. Put a few drops in
the eyes with a dropper.
(vi) Butea Bark (For Snake Bite)
Re: Juice of the bark 1 teaspoonful

Juice of ginger 1 teaspoonful
Water 4 teaspoonfuls
Mix. One dose. To be repeated every hour. Give 4 doses (internal use).
A decoction of the bark will remove the heaviness of head, catarrh of the nose and cough. Cut
the bark into small pieces and chew them with sugar-candy. This will relieve excessive thirst.
(vii) Butea Flower
Re: Butea flower 1 ounce

Water 10 ounces
Boil and strain. Dose: 1 ounce twice daily. This brings out menstrual flow. Useful in
amenorrhoea or absence of menstru-ation and dysmenorrhoea or difficulty of menstruation.
The flowers can be boiled and then applied to boils and swellings. Crush the flowers, boil and
apply it to swollen testi-cles. The swelling and inflammation will subside.
The Decoction of the Butea Flower is useful in amenorrhoea or absence of menstruation or

dysmenorrhoea or difficult menstruation. Menses will flow freely.
(viii) Butea Gum Powder (Bengal Kino)
Re: Palas-ki-Gond (gum) 10 grains

Cloves Powder 5 grains
Make one powder. Dose: One powder twice or thrice daily. Useful in diarrhoea, dysentery,
bloody urine, vomiting of blood.
Dissolve the gum in a little water. Touch the throat with this solution by a swab. Ulcers in the
throat will disappear. This is like Mandels pigment or Tannic Acid Glycerine Paint. It is more
suitable for children and delicate females.
(xi)Butea Leaf
Re: Butea leaves 1 ounce

Water 10 ounces
Boil for ten minutes and strain. Dose: 1 teaspoonful thrice daily. Useful in piles, diarrhoea and
pain in the stomach and bowels.
The paste of the leaves can be applied to boils and swell-ings. They will subside.
26.Buttermilk
English :Buttermilk
Hindi :Mattha
Kanarese :Majjige
Telugu :Majjiga
Tamil :Moore
Sanskrit :Thakram
(i) Description
Curd is mixed with plenty of water and churned. This dilu-ted and churned curd is called
buttermilk. The buttermilk re-tains 10 per cent of the vitamin A and the other two vitamins,
proteins and sugar. It is, therefore, an important article of diet. It is nearly as valuable as milk.
(ii) Its Medicinal Qualities
Buttermilk has excellent medicinal qualities. It is a very good drink in dysentery. It is more a
medicine. In dysentery and all forms of uric acid diseases buttermilk diet for a certain pe-riod will
be highly beneficial.
(iii) Properties and Uses
Buttermilk is more easily digestible than whole milk. It is astringent, light, cooling, appetising,
nutritive and tonic. It is useful in dyspepsia, digestive trouble, etc.
Boiled rice and buttermilk is useful in diarrhoea, dysen-tery, piles, dropsy, excessive thirst and
burning in urine. This will increase the digestive fire.
Cold rice and buttermilk removes burning in the body, bil-iousness. This will give good sleep.
CHAPTER IX
CAMPHOR, CAPSICUM, CARAWAY SEEDS
27. CAMPHOR
English :Camphor
Hindi :Kappur
Kanarese :Karpura
Tamil :Karpuram
Sanskrit :Karpur
Dose: 2 to 5 grains. This is an ingredient in Tincture Cam-phor Co. or Paregoric Elixir which is
used in cough mixtures. It is also an ingredient in Camphrodyne which is used in cholera. It is a
diffusible stimulant. In shock or collapse it stimulates the heart. Two grains can be dissolved in
milk and given immedi-ately in such conditions.
(i) An Anophrodisiac
It is an anophrodisiac and checks painful erections in gonorhoea. When it is given in large
doses frequently, it pro-duces impotency and destroys erection of the organ. Some Sadhus take
recourse to eating camphor to destroy their virile power.
(ii) An antigalactagogue
It is an antigalactagogue. It checks accumulation of milk in the breasts and so it is beneficial in

mothers who have lost their children soon after delivery and who suffer from severe pain in the
breasts owing to accumulation of milk.
(iii) An Antiseptic
It is an antiseptic. It destroys worms in the caries teeth. The socket or the hole must be filled
with powdered camphor. It is an ingredient in tooth-powder. It is useful in spongy gums.
(iv) For Pains
Dissolve a few grains in mustard oil and expose the oil to the sun for sometime. This forms a
very useful liniment in rheu-matism, muscular pain, neuralgia, lumbago, sprains, stiffness ot
joints, contusion, etc. It is analgesic.
(v) An Anti-Spasmodic
It is anti-spasmodic and so it is useful in spasms of asthma and in chronic bronchitis. It serves

as a stimulant in prostrating fever such as pneumonia, etc. It acts as a sedative in delirium. It
brings out sputum or phlegm easily and so it is expectorant. It is a carminative as it corrects
digestion and expels wind from the bowels. It is useful in flatulence of the bowels.
(vi) The Many Uses
It checks nocturnal discharges and is useful in spermatorrhoea. Two or three grains can be
taken in hot milk at bed time. It is useful in dysmenorrhoea or difficult menstrua-tion.
Amritshara and Rubinis Camphor contain camphor. Cam-phor becomes a liquid when mixed
and rubbed with thymol, menthol.
In influenza and coryza it is useful a nasal paint, dissolved in oil. In pneumonia it is given as a
subcutaneous injection. It is dissolved in olive oil (1 grain in 1 c.c.). it gives strength to the heart
and makes irregular rhythms of heart regular. Ampoules of camphor in oil (1 grain in 1 c.c.) is
available in the chemists shops.
28.Capsicum
English Red Chillies

Hindi Lal Mirch, Gach-mirch
Kanarese Menasankai Kempu
Tamil Milakai
Telugu Mirapakaya
Malayalam Kappalmilaka, Vattal Milakai
Marathi Mir-singa
Gujrarati Lal-Mirch, Marchu
Bengali Lanka-morich, Lal-morich
Sanskrit Katuvira
(i) Properties and Contents
The dried ripe fruit of Capsicum Minimum. Capsicum Fastigatum is Guinea pepper (Cheemai-
Milakai). Capsicum is an irritant, rubefacient, counter-irritant, a good stomachic, stim-ulant,
tonic, carminative, cardiac stimulant. It increases the se-men (Veerya Vriddhi). It contains
capsaicin, a crystalline acid, a volatile oil, resin, a fatty substance and a volatile alkaloid. It has a
characteristic odour and intensely pungent taste. Dose of the powder. y2 to 2 grains.
In allopathic system there are two preparations, viz., Tr. Capasici (does 5 to 15 minims) and
Unguentum Capsici or oint-ment of capsicum.
(ii) Capsicum Gargle
Re: Capsicum bruised 1 teaspoonful

Salt 2 teaspoonful
Boilling water 20 ounces
Re: Capsicum bruised 1 teaspoonful Salt 2 teaspoonfuls Boiling water 20 ounces
Strain. An excellent gargle for sore-throat. Relaxed throat. hoarseness of voice, etc.
(iii) Capsicum Pill
Re: Capsicum 1 grain

Camphor 1 grain
Asafoetida 1 grain
Make into one pill. For diarrhoea and cholera. Dose: one pill thrice daily.
(iv) Capsicum Decoction
Re: Capsicum 30 grains

Chinnamon 10 grains
Water 10 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes and strain. Add sugar 4 tablespoon-fuls. For checking the craving of drinking
liquor. Dose: 1 oz. thrice daily.
(v) Capsicum Lozenge
Re: Capsicum powder 60 grains

Sugar 60 grains
Honey 60 grains
Make into 24 pills. For hoarseness of voice.
(vi) Capsicum Liniment
Capsicum 1 drachms
Garlic 1 drachms
Black pepper 1 drachms
Make this into a paste and mix it with gingily or mustard oil. This is useful in chronic rheumatic
pain and swelling.
(vii) Capsicum Powder
Re: Capsicum 2 grains

Make one powder. One powder twice daily. Useful in dys-pepsia or indigestion, gastritis, pain in
the chest, diarrhoea, vomiting in bilious fevers, anorexia or loss of appetite, nausea or retching
sensation.
(viii) Capsicum Ointment
Re: Capsici 2 drachms

Soft yellow vaseline 1 ounce
A stimulating ointment, 1 drachms
29. CARAWAY SEEDS
(CARUM, CARAWAY FRUIT, JIRA, CUMIN SEEDS)
English Caraway seed

Hindi Safed Jeera
Kanarese Jeerigay
Tamil Shimai-shombu
Telugu Jilakarra
Malayalam Cheerakam
Marathi Jeera
Gujarati Safed Jiraun
Bengali Safed Jeera
Sanskrit Ajaji
The dried fruits of carum carui are known as cumin or car-away. It is obtained from the hills and
plains of India. It has an agreeable aroma on account of its volatile oils. Dose: 10 to 30 grains.
It is a stimulant. carminative, stomachic, astringent, anti-spasmodic and aromatic. It is useful in
biliousness, anorexia or loss of appetite, pain in the stomach and intestines, asthma, stone. It
gives strength to the body and coolness to the eyes.
Oleum Carui (oil of caraway) is distilled from the fruits. Dose: 1 to 30 minims.
(i) Caraway Digestive Powder
Re: Caraway seeds powder 2 drachms

Black pepper powder 2 drachms
Long pepper powder 2 drachms
Rock salt powder 2 drachms
Dried ginger powder 2 drachms
Mix well and strain. Dose: 30 grains or half a teaspoonful. Useful in dyspepsia or indigestion.
This is a very effective di-gestive powder.
(ii) Pancha-Deepagni Lehiam (A Confection of Five Drugs)

Black pepper powder 4 drachms
Cardamom powder 4 drachms
Ghee 4 ounces
Honey 4 ounces
Black sugar 8 ounces
Cow's milk 2 seers
Put the sugar in the milk and boil. Then add the five pow-ders. Stir well in low fire. Add ghee.
Finally add the honey. Dose: 1 teaspoonful. Useful in diarrhoea, flatulence, biliousness,
indigestion etc.
(iii) Caraway Water (Aqua Carui)
Re: Caraway seeds 6 drachms

Strain. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls. A good digestive, useful in indigestion flatulence, etc.
(iv) Digestive Powder

Cardamom powder 2 drachms
Refined camphor 20 grains
White sugar 4 drachms
Mix well. Dose: 1 teaspoonful daily. Useful in indigestion, flatulence
CHAPTER X
CARDAMOM, CASSIA ALATA, CASTOR OIL
30. CARDAMOM
(CHOTI ELACHI)
English : Cardamom
Hindi : Elachi, (Choti Elachi)
Kanarese : Elakki
Tamil : Elakkai, Ella-kay
Telugu : Yalakkai
Marathi : Elachi
Gujarati : Elachi
Bengali : Garate
Sanskrit : Elaam, Truti
The dried ripe seeds of Eletharia Cardamom obtained from Malabar and the Western Ghats.
The odour and taste are strongy aromatic. It contains a volatile oil. Dose: 10 to 30 grains. It is a
good carminative, stomachic, flavouring agent, stimulant, diuretic and aromatic.
In Allopathy Cardamom is used in the preparation of aro-matic chalk powder, aromatic chalk
powder with opium, com-pound tincture of Gention. A tincture called Tincture Cardamom Co., is
prepared out of cardamom. Dose: 30 to 60 minims or drops.
Cardamom is useful in flatulence or wind in the stomach and bowels, intestinal colic, excessive
headache, dryness of mouth, cough, dyspepsia.
(i) Digestive Powder—I
Re: Cardamom 2 drachms

Ajwan 2 drachms
Cumin seeds 2 drachms
Anise seeds 2 drachms
Slightly parched. Then powder. Dose: 1 teaspoonful after food. Useful in dyspspsia or
indigestion.
(ii) Cardamom Decoction
Re: Cardamom 1 drachm

Black sugar 1 ounce
Water 8 ounces
Boil and strain. One dose. Useful in giddiness due to bil-iousness.
(iii) Digestive Powder—II

Re: Cardamom powder 4 drachms
Cumin powder 4 drachms
Cloves powder 4 drachms
Dose: 30 grains or half a teaspoonful. Useful in stom-ach-ache, intestinal colic, gastric catarrh.
This is a good diges-tive powder.
(iv) Compound Cardamom Powder
Re: Cardamom powder 2drachms

Liquorice powder 2drachms
Tail pepper powder 2drachms
Amla powder 2drachms
White sugar 1 ounce
Mix well. Dose: 1 teaspoonful twice daily. Useful in cough, excessive thirst, pain in the stomach
and bowels.
(v) Cardamom Ghee

Tail pepper powder 4 drachms
Cloves powder 4 drachms
Coriander powder 4 drachms
Sugar-candy 1/2 seer
Cow's milk 1 seer
Cow's ghee 8 ounces
Honey 4 ounces
Put the sugar-candy in the milk. Stir well. Let it boil for some time. Then add the powders and
ghee. Stir well. Now add honey. Dose: One teaspoonful twice, daily. Useful in cough. bronchitis,
excessive thirst, dry mouth and dry tongue, dis-eases of the stomach and bowels, indigestion,
intestinal colic, gastric catarrh, biliousness. The body will become cool. This is a blood tonic as
well.
(vi) Cardamom Co. Pill

Cinnamon powder 4 drachms
Liquorice powder 4 drachms
Black sugar 2 ounces
Beat well. Make into pills. Size of arecanut. Dose: 1 or 2 pills twice daily. Useful in indigestion,
pain in the stomach and bowels, flatulence, diarrhoea, biliousness.
31. CASSIA ALATA
(RINGWORM SHRUB)
English Ringworm Shrub

Hindi : Dadmurdan
Kanarese : Shimigida, shime-agase
Tamil : Vandu-kolli, Vanduhadi-ilai,
Shimaiagatti
Telugu : Shima-avisi, Shima-chettu
Malayalam : Shima Akati
Marathi : Dadamardana
Bengali : Dadmurdam, Dadmari
Sanskri : Dadrughna
This is a parasiticide and purgative. This is useful in ring-worm and parasitic skin diseases. It is
a beautiful shrub with its large prominent spike of yellow flowers. It is common in gardens and
waste places throughout India.
(i) Dadmurdan Ointment
Re: Bruised fresh leaves 2 ounces

Vaseline, or Cocoanut or Sessamum
oil 4 ounces
Rub the ointment into the skin thoroughly, twice daily. Use-ful in ringworm or Tinea Tonsurans.
(ii) Dadmurdan Paste
Re: Bruised fresh leaves 2 ounces

Lemon juice q.s.
Make a paste. Rub the paste thoroughly into the skin twice daily. Useful in ringworm.
(iii) Dadmurdan Oil
Re: Bees' wax 2 parts

Cocoanut oil 5 parts
Juice of the leaf 7 parts
Melt the bees'wax with cocoanut oil over the fire in a ves-sel. Now add the juice. Rub this over
the body in parasitic skin diseases.
(iv) Preparation for Many Uses
Re: Leaves of Dadmurda 1 ounce

Flower of Dadmurda 1 ounce
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 20 minutes and strain. Dose: 1 ounce twice daily. Useful in cough or bronchitis,
dyspnoea or difficulty in breath-ing. This can be used as a gargle in stomatitis or ulcers in the
wounds.
32. CASTOR OIL
English : Castor Oil

Hindi : Arandikatel
Kanarese : Haralenne
Tamil : Amanakkanney
Telugu : Amudam
Malayalam : Kottenna
Marathi : Erandela
Gujarati : Divel, Yarandinutel
Bengali : Bheerandatail
Sanskrit : Yeranda Tailam
The expressed oil of the seeds of Ricinus Conmmunis. It is a darkbrown oil. It is acid in taste.
The best kind is clear, of a pale straw colour. It has a slightly nauseous taste. The cold drawn
expressed oil should always be used when procurable. The darkbrown, viscid oil obtained by
boiling and subsequent expression of the seeds should be avoided on account of its acridity.
It is a good laxative. The ordinary dose for a child is a tea-spoonful. It may be gradually raised
according to the age of the patient to two or four tablespoonfuls. It is best given floating on milk,
coffee or omum water.
It is valuable as an emulsion in infantile diarrhoea and mouth. This is a good antiseptic lotion for
washing ulcers and irritative diarrhoea of adults and in dysentery.
Castor oil is highly beneficial in painful affection of the rec-tum, piles, and when it is desirable to
prevent the patient strain-ing at stool. It softens the motions and lubricates the intestines without
weakening the patient.
(i) Castor Oil Poultice
The leaf is lactagogue and anti-rheumatic.
Re: Castor oil plant leaves 4 handfuls

Water 8 pints
Boil for half an hour. Bathe the breasts for 15 minutes with this decoction. Then spread the
boiled leaves over the breasts. The secretion of milk increases in a few hours.
Apply layers of the fresh leaves simply warmed before a fire, over the breasts. This is also an
equally effective mode of application. It is simple also.
Smear the nipples freely with castor oil, each time when the child is removed from the breast.
This is highly useful in sore nipples.
Re: Castor oil 1 or 2 ounces

A purgative for adults. One teaspoonful for a child.
(ii) Castor Oil Emulsion
Re: Castor oil 1 teaspoonful

Mucilage q.s.
Water 1 ounce
Dose: One ounce thrice daily. Useful in dysentery. For a child use 5 or 10 drops of oil.
(iii) Castor Oil with Tr. Opium
Re: Castor oil 1 teaspoonful

Tr. Opium 5 drops
To be taken twice or thrice daily. Useful in dysentery and diarrhoea.
(iv) Castor Oil Eye Drops
Re: Castor oil 2 or 3 drops

Useful in removing foreign bodies such as sand, charcoal particles, dust, etc.
(v) As a Poultice
Cut the leaves into small pieces, warm them slightly with castor oil and foment the swollen
rheumatic joints and other painful parts of the body.
In abdominal pain apply a little castor oil over the abdo-men and apply over it the castor oil plant
leaves which are slighty warmed before the fire.
(vi) The Three Ghee (Mukkoottu)
Re: Castor oil 1 part

Gingily oil 3 parts
Cow s ghee 2 parts
This is a good application for the head. It will cool the head. This can be applied to the whole
body also. Take a cold or hot bath.
CHAPTER XI
CATECHU, CHAULMOOGRA OIL, CHIRETTA
33. CATECHU
(KATTHA)
English : Catechu
Hindi : Kattha
Kanarese : Khadira, Kadur
Tamil : Katha Kambu
Telugu : Podalimanu
Malayalam : Khadiram
Marathi : Khair
Gujarati : Kher
Bengali : Khair
Sanskrit : Khadira
(i) Description
This is an extract from the heart-wood of Acacia Catechu. It is obtained by boiling and drying the
decoction. The leaves and young shoots of Uncaria Gambier are extracted with water and dried.
It is obtained from Singapore and Eastern Archipel-ago. Taste is at first bitter and astringent,
afterwards, sweetish. It occurs in the form of masses of a blackish brown colour. Its chief
constituent is Catechu Tannic acid. Catechu is used with pan or betel leaves. Dose: 5 to 15
grains.
(ii) Tincture Catechu
In Allopathic system Tincture Catechu is made out of Catechu. Cinnamon bark is added.
Catechu is an astringent. It is serviceable in diarrhoea, ulcers, sore-throat and stomatitis or
ulcers in the mouth. Dose: 30 to 60 minims.
(iii) Catechu Powder
Re: Catechu 10 grains

Cinnamon powder 10 grains
Honey q.s.
Dose: One powder, 3 or 4 times daily. Useful in diarrhoea.
(iv)Catechu Compound Infusion
Re: Catechu bruised 4 drachms

Cinnamon bruised 1 drachm
Infuse for 2 hours and strain. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls or 1 ounce three times daily. Useful in
diarrhoea. 5 or 10 drops of Tr. Opium to each dose will render it more efficacious.
(v)For Diarrhoea in Children
Re: Catechu powder 3 grais

Cinnamon powder 3 grais
Mix. Dose: One powder twice daily in honey with sugar.
(vi)A Good Dentifrice
Re: Catechu 2 drachms

Alum 1 drachm
Myrrh 1 drachm
Cloves 30 grains
Chalk 8 drachms
Powder; then mix and strain. This valuable tooth-powder will stop bleeding from the gums and
strengthen loose teeth and the gums.
In relaxed sore-throat, hoarseness, loss of voice, in ulcer-ation and sponginess of gums, in

mercurial salivation chew a small piece of catechu and allow it to dissolve in the mouth slowly.
You will derive immense benefit.
In toothache and caries tooth, plug the hollow of the tooth with a small piece of catechu. The
pain will vanish.
(vii)Catechu Infusion
Re: Katechu 6 drachms

Infuse for 2 hours and strain. This is a good lotion for sore nipples and old, chronic ulcers. Bathe
the parts twice or thrice daily. This infusion is a preventative of sore nipples. The breasts should
be bathed with this infusion daily for a month before the confinement. This will harden the
tissues.
(viii) Catechu Co. Ointment
Re: Catechu powder 1 drachm

Copper sulphate 10 grains
White vaseline 1 ounce
Mix well. This is useful in chronic ulcers attended by much foul-smelling discharge. This is an
astringent and stimulating, healing ointment.
The addition of Catechu to Paan or betel leaves is benefi-cial in strengthening the loose teeth
and killing the worms in the bowels.
34. CHAULMOOGRA OIL
English : Jangli almond

Hindi : ChauImoogra
Tamil : Neradi-mattu
Telugu : Niradivittulu
Malayalam : Niradimuttu
Marathi : Kadu-Kawata
Sanskrit : Tuvaraka
(i) Uses and Some Instructions
The fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Gynocardia Odorata. The oil has a peculiar and
slightly unpleasant smell and taste. Chaulmoogra seeds are about an inch in length, of oval
form.
This is a remedy for leprosy, scrofula, lupus, chronic ec-zema and chronic rheumatism. This is
used both externally, and internally.
In South India where Chaulmoogra is rarely obtainable, the oil of the seeds of a tree of the same
family, Hydnocarpus Inebrains can be tried. The oil has a great repute among the natives of
Malabar as a remedy in leprosy.
The dose of the seeds is 6 grains, three times daily, in the form of a pill. It is gradually increased
to 3 or 4 times that quan-tity or until it produces nausea or vomiting, when the dose should be
decreased or the use of the remedy stopped for a time. This is the best form of administration.
The dose of the oil is 5 or 6 drops, gradually increased as in the case of the seeds. Give up
salted meat, acids, spices and sweetmeats during the use of this medicine. But you can take
butter, ghee and oily articles of diet. It may be advantageously combined with a course of Cod-
liver oil.
(ii) Chaulmoogra Co. Emulsion
Re: Chaulmoogra oil 5 drops

Cod liver oil 20 drops
Mucilage q.s.
Water 1 ounce
(iii) Chaulmoogra Ointment—I
Re: Chaulmoogra oil 1 drachm

White vaseline soft 1 ounce
Useful in obstinate skin diseases, chronic eczema and lepric spots. You can beat the seeds into
a paste with a little ghee or vaseline. This also will form a good ointment.
(iv) Chaulmoogra Ointment—II
Re: Chaulmoogra oil 1 ounce

Nim oil 1 ounce
Mix well. Rub into leprotic spots.
(v) Chaulmoogra Tonic

Warm milk 4 ounces
Dose: Twice daily after food. This is a tonic for lepers.
(vi) Chaulmoogra Pill
Re: Chaulmoogra seeds powder 5 grains

Honey q.s.
One pill. Dose: One pill thrice daily. Useful in leprosy and eczema.
(vii) Plain Chaulmoogra Emulsion

Mucilage q.s.
Syrup 1 drachm
Water 1 ounce
One ounce twice daily after food. Gradually in-crease the dose. Useful in leprosy.
35. CHIRETTA
English :king of Bitters

Hindi :Kiriyat
Kanarese :Nelabaevu
Tamil :Nilavembu
Telugu :Nelavemu
Malayalam :Kiriyat
Marathi :Olen Kirayat
Gujarati :Kiryato
Bengali :Kalmesh
Sanskrit :Bhunimba
(i) Description
Chiretta is the plant of Swertia Chiretta or Ophelia Chiretta. It is collected when in flower and
dried. It is obtainable in all bazaars. The whole plant is intensely bitter. Dose: 10 to 30 grains.
The allopathic system has two preparations, viz., Infu-sion Chiretta Compositum Concentratum
(dose 30 to 60 min-ims) and Tr. Chiretta Co. (dose 30 to 60 minims).
(ii) Uses
The infusion is a popular domestic remedy for general de-bility with poor appetite and digestion,
particularly during con-valescence from a serious disease.
Chiretta is a stomachic, bitter tonic, alterative and stimu-lant. It is a tonic after fevers. It clears
and brightens the intellect. It is useful in dyspepsia or indigestion, torpidity of liver, giddi-ness
due to biliousness.
(iii) Chiretta Infusion—H
Re: Chiretta bruised 1 ounce

Infuse for 4 hours and strain. Dose: 2 ounces three times daily. This a good tonic.
(iv) Chiretta Infusion—II
Re: Chiretta 1 ounce

Cloves powder 1 drachm
Cinnamon powder 1 drachm
Cardamom powder 1 drachm
Infuse for 6 hours and strain. Dose: 2 ounces thrice daily. Useful in all cases of debility,
especially after fever, indigestion or dyspepsia, anorexia or loss of appetite, ague, or intermittent
fever, gastric catarrh, worms in the bowels, diarrhoea owing to indigestion, vomiting in
pregnancy.
Cloves or cinnamon or cardamom increases the efficacy of Chiretta and improves its flavour.
You can add Syrup of or-ange or honey to the infusion.
(v) Chiretta Infusionl—Ill
Re: Chiretta 1 ounce

Skin of Mossambi 1 ounce
Coriander 2 drachms
Infuse for 1 hour and strain. Dose 1 ounce thrice daily. Useful in bilious giddiness, debility, ague,
indigestion, loss of appetite. The juice of the leaves is useful in flatulence and diar-rhoea of
children.
(vi) Chiretta Infusion—IV
Re: Chiretta bruised 4 drachms

Vassambu (sweet flag) powder 1 drachm
Chatha-kuppal (dill) 1 drachm
Infuse for 1 hour. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls thrice daily. Use-ful in debility, fever, dysentery, etc.
CHAPTER XII
CINNAMON, CLOVES, COCCULUS-INDICUS
36. CINNAMON
(CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM)
English :Chinese Cassia

Hindi :Dalchini
Kanarese :Lavangapatta
Tamil :Lavangapattai
Telugu :Lavangapatta, Dasinachakka
Malayalam :Lavangapatta
Marathi :Dala-chini
Gujarati :Dalchini
Bengali :Dalchini
Sanskrit :Thwak
This is the dried bark of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum. It is obtained from the Deccan, Burma,
Malaya and Ceylon. It oc-curs in closely rolled quills containing several smaller quills in-side. It
is yellowish-brown in colour. It has a sweet, hot taste. It contains a volatile oil, tannin, sugar and
gum. Dose: 5 to 20 grains.
It is a stimulant, astringent, carminative, aphrodisiac, antispasmodic and tonic. It is also a heart-

stimulant. It is used in the preparation of vegetables, soups, etc. It is useful in spermotorrhoea,
diarrhoea, bronchitis, dysentery, poisoning, flatulence or wind in the bowels, dyspepsia, cobra
poison and fevers. It cools the body and removes bad odour in the mouth. It contracts the
uterus. Hence it is useful in menorrhoea or exces-sive menstruation. It is also useful in dull
labour pains.
Cinnamon powder is used in Allopathy in the preparation of compound Catechu powder, Creta
Aromaticus powder, Greta Aromaticus with Opium powder and compound Tincture of
Cardamom. The oil of cinnamon (dose 1 to 3 minims) enters into the composition of
concentrated cinnamon water (dose 5 to 10 minims), and Spirit of Cinnamon (dose 5 to 20
minims or drops).
Cinnamon is closely allied in medicinal properties and use to cloves. It may be substituted for
cloves when the latter is not procurable. It is an agreeable adjunct to many other medicines.
(ii) Compound Cinnamon Powder
Re: Cinnamon powder 1 drachm
Cardamon powder 1 drachm
Dried ginger powder 1 drachm
Mix well. Dose: grams 10 to 20 thrice daily. Useful in vom-iting, flatulence, intestinal colic,
dysentery, diarrhoea, dyspep-sia, etc.
(iii) Cinnamon Decoction
Re: Cinnamon 1 drachms

Cardamom 1 drachms
Cloves 1 drachms
Anise seeds 1 drachms
Vidanga (Vai Vilangam) 1 drachms
Water 20 ounces
Boil till the water is reduced to 5 ounces. Dose: 2 tea-spoonfuls thrice daily. Useful in stomach
ache, gastric catarrh dyspepsia.
(iv) Cinnamon and Catechu Decoction

Re: Cinnamon 2 drachms
Cetechu 6 drachms
Keep for one hour and strain. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls thrice daily. Useful in diarrhoea.
(v) Cinnamon and Catechu Powder
Re: Cinnamon powder 5 grams

Catechu 6 grams
Dried ginger 2 grams
Black pepper 1 gram
Make one powder. Dose: 1 powder thrice daily. Useful in diarrhoea.
37. CLOVES
(CARYOPHYLLUM; LAVANGA)
Hindi : Lavang
Kanarese : Lavanga
Tamil : Kerambu
Telugu : Lavangam
Malayalam : Grambuo
Bengali : Lavanga
Sanskrit : Lavanga
(i) Properties, Uses and Preparations
This is the dried flowering bud of Eugenia Aromatica or Caryophyllus Aromaticus. It has a strong
spicy smell and very pungent aromatic taste. Dose: Two to five grains. This contains the volatile
oil, caryophyllum and gallo tannic acid. It is usually obtained from Jawa, Ceylon, Penang and
other places.
Clove is a good stimulant, carminative, stomachic and antispasmodic. It is useful in indigestion,

colic, flatulence or wind in the bowels, bilious giddiness, diarrhoea, nausea, dys-entery, sprue,
chronic diarrhoea, spermatorrhoea, earache, opacity of cornea. It binds the bowels. It is used as
a spice for vegetable curries, soups. etc. It stimulates the appetite and aids digestion.
It removes hoarseness of voice. Therefore, it is useful for songsters and lecturers. It can be
chewed as it is or with sugar candy.
The official preparation of British Pharmacopoeia are caryophilli infusion diluted and
concentrated, and oil of cloves.
The dose of the diluted infusion is ½ to 1 ounce and the dose of the oil is 1 to 3 minims, or
drops. 2 or 3 drops of oil of cloves can be taken in sugar. Useful in indigestion, flatulence,
intestinal colic, vomiting, diarrhoea.
Oil of cloves is useful in toothache or dental neuralgia, caries tooth. It strengthens the gums.
Make a very fine paste of clove and apply it to the fore-head and nose. Heaviness of head and
catarrh in the nose will be cured.
Fry some cloves over the fire and chew them. Sores in the throat will be cured. The gums will be
strengthened.
Cloves enter into the composition of all medicines which are intended for biliousness,
spermatorrhoea, diarrhoea.
(ii) Infusion of Cloves
Re: Cloves powdered 4 dramchs

Keep for half an hour and then strain. Dose: One ounce daily. Useful in indigestion, flatulence or
wind in the bowels, colic and spasmodic affections of the bowels, vomiting in preg-nancy,
dysentery, sprue, chronic diarrhoea.
(iii) A Good Purgative
Re: Cloves 20 grams

Dried ginger 20 grams
Senna leaves 4 drachms
Allow this to stand for y2 hour and strain. One dose. A good, aromatic purgative.
(iv) Cloves Chiretta Tonic

Re: Infusion of cloves 8 ounces
Infusion of Chiretta 8 ounces
Mix well. Dose: 1 ounce twice daily. Useful in debility. loss of appetite and in convalescence
after fevers.
(v) Compound Cloves Powder
Re: Cloves 1 drachm

Ajwan powder 1 drachm
Rock salt 1 drachm
Mix well. Dose: 20 grains twice daily. Useful in indigestion, or dyspepsia. This is a Pachak
Ghoorna that helps digestion and gives good appetite.
(vi) Cloves Triphala Powder
Re: Cloves powder 1 drachm

Chirunagappa powder (Naga-
kesara) 1 drachm
Vilamichu-ver or Hreeberan 1 drachm
Black pepper powder 1 drachm
Long pepper powder 1 drachm
Mix Well. Dose: 20 grains twice daily. Can be made into pills also (5 gr). Useful in bilious
giddiness, diarrhoea, vomitting, itching in anus.
38. COCCULUS INDICUS
(INDIAN BERRY; FISH BERRY)
English : Indian Berry

Hindi : Kakmari
Kanarese : Ka ka-mari-bija
Tamil : Kakkai-kolli-vilai, Penkottai
Telugu : Kakamari, Kaki-ceampa
Malayalam : Nanjin Kuru, Kakka-kolli
Marathi : Karwi
Gujarati : Kakphal
Bengali : Kaka-mari
Sanskrit : Kakphala, Kakanshika
(i) Description
The fruits of Anamirta Cocculus. This plant grows in Cey-lon, Malabar and Burma. The dried
fruit is larger than a pea. The kernel is yellowish, oily and bitter. An oil is extracted from the
kernel. It is called Picrotoxine. This is a virulent poison. If this is mixed with food and given to the
crows, they die immedi-ately. Hence the name `Kakkai kolli', 'killer of crows'.
(ii) For Itching Skin
Cocculus Indicus is an emetic, parasiticide and a narcotic. It is used as an agent for destroying
pediculi or lice. It is useful in itching of skin.
Re: Cocculus seeds 60 grains

Vaseline 1 ounce
Beat the seeds in a mortar and make into a paste and then mix the paste thoroughly with
vaseline, butter or ghee. The ointment should not be applied in ulcerated surfaces on ac-count
of the danger of absorption of the poisonous principles of the seeds.
(iii) For Intravenous Injection
Picrotoxin: Synonymn. Cocculin. A glycoside obtained from Anamirta Paniculata, This is bitter,
colourless, crystal. Dose: 00 to y20 grain. This is given as an intramuscular or intra-venous
injection. Picrotoxin is occasionally given orally in night sweats. It is given in barbiturate,
paraldehyde and bromethol poisoning in doses of y6 grain intramuscularly or intravenously.
Picrotoxin is useful in epilepsy, hemiplegia, headache, sweat-ing of phthisis, and diseases
caused by poisonous drugs.
CHAPTER XIII
CORIANDER SEEDS, COUNTRY FIG,
COUNTRY GOOSEBERRY
39. CORIANDER SEEDS
(CORIANDRUM SATIVUM )
English : Coriander
Hindi : Dhaniya
Kanarese : Kottamari-bija
Tamil : Kothumalli
Telugu : Dhaniyalu
Malayalam : Kottamalli
Marathi : Kothimbir
Gujarati : Dhana
Bengali : Dhane
Sanskrit : Kustumbari, Dhanyaka
(i) Description
The seeds of Coriandum Sativum. This plant is cultivated throughout India. The seeds are
stomachic, carminative, stim-ulant, diuretic, aromatic and antispasmodic. They contain a vol-
atile oil.
(ii) Uses of Coriander Leaf
Coriander leaf is useful in anorexia or distaste for food, dyspepsia, biliousness. It increases the
semen. It is used as a flavouring agent in the preparation of pepper water (Rasam), Sambar,
Pachadie and Chutney by South Indians. It has a very good aroma.
The leaf can be slightly fried with a little gingly oil and ap-plied to swellings as a poultice. The
swelling will either subside or ripen.
(iii) Coriander Infusion
Re: Coriander seeds 4 drachms

Infuse for one hour. Dose: 1 ounce three times daily. Use-ful in flatulence, dyspepsia, giddiness
and biliousness. You can add a little milk and sugar.
(iv) Coriander Coffee
Re: Coriander seeds 2 tablespoonfuls

Milk 16 ounces
Fry the seeds with a little ghee and powder. You can make a little decoction of 4 ounces and
add this to the milk. This is pure milk-coriander coffee. This is a very good substitute for coffee
and tea. This will cure piles.
(v) Coriander Co., Powder
Re: Coriander seeds (parched) 4 drachms

Caraway powder (Jira) parched 4 drachms
Cardamom powder (parched) 4 drachms
Dose: 1 teaspoonful after food. This is a very good diges-tive powder. Useful in diarrhoea,
indigestion, biliousness.
(vi) Oil of Coriander
Dose: 1 to 4 drops. This is useful in flatulence, dyspepsia, biliousness, giddiness, diarrhoea.
Make a paste of coriander and apply it to the forehead. Headache will be relieved. A paste of
coriander and sandal will relieve bilious headache. Make hot poultice of coriander and apply it to
chronic ulcers and carbuncles. They will be cured.
40. COUNTRY FIG

(FICUS GLOMERATA)
English Country fig

Hindi Gular
Kanarese Atti
Tamil Atti
Telugu Atti,Medi
Malayalam Atti
Marathi Umbar
Gujarati Umbaro
Bengali Jajnadumar
Sanskrit Udumbara
Uses of Fig Fruit
Fig fruit improves and increases the blood. It is a laxative too. The tender and half ripe fruits are
used as a vegetable curry and beneficial for persons suffering from piles.
41. COUNTRY GOOSEBERRY
(AVVERHOEA ACIDA)
English Country Gooseberry

Hindi Chelmeri, Haraphalvadi
Kanarese Kirunelli
Tamil Arunelli
Telugu Racha-usirikaya
Malayalam Arinelli, Chirmi
Marathi Kanta-avala
Bengali Nubarse
(i) Description
This is a tree that grows in the Mediterranean climate and yields an abundance of fruits.
This is a small tree. This is grown in the gardens of India. This is cultivated in the Malaya States.
(ii) Leaf, Seed and Fruit
The leaf is a diaphoretic. The seed is a laxative. The fruit is antibilious. The leaf, fruit, seed and
the root are used.
Make a paste of the leaves and mix it well in a tablespoon-ful of buttermilk. Take this twice daily
for 4 days. Jaundice will be cured. When you take this give up salt. Take goat's milk with boiled
rice.
The fruit is useful in asthma, excessive thirst, internal heat, biliousness. It cools the body.
(iii) Gooseberry Juice
Re: Juice of Arunelli 1 ounce

Juice of grapes 2 ounces
Burnt alum 2 grains
Sugar 60 grains
One dose. Useful in gonorrhea.
(iv) Gooseberry Sherbet
Re: Gooseberry juice 20 ounces

Sugar 20 ounces
Boil gently to the consistency of a syrup. Dose: 1 ounce in a tablespoonful of water. Useful in
biliousness, thirst, internal heat.
(v) For Vomiting
Re: Dried gooseberry powder 10 grains

Cumin seeds jeera powder 10 grains
Water 4 ounces
Put the powder in water. Let it remain for one hour. Add one tablespoonful sugar. Strain. One
dose. Useful in vomiting.
(vi) Gooseberry Chutney
Re: Dried of fresh gooseberry ¼ seer

Black pepper 1 ounce
Fresh ginger 2 ounces
Fresh coriander leaves or
sweet nim leaves ½ ounce
A little salt
Make it into a chutney (rough paste). Useful in bilious-ness, vomiting. This cools the body. The
eyes become lus-trous.
(vii) Gooseberry Patchadie
Re: Fresh or dried gooseberry

bru. Handful
Curd ¼ seer
Few green chillies in pieces.
Mix. A very good appetizer. This is anti-bilious. This is taken in South India in Dvadasi days with
Akatti Keerai (a kind of leafy vegetable).
(viii) To relieve Constipation
Re: Gooseberry seed powder 1 teaspoonful

Sugar 1 teaspoonful
Useful in constipation.
CHAPTER XIV
IPECACUANTIA, SARSAPARILLA, CROTON SEEDS, CUBEBS
42. COUNTRY IPECACUANTIA TYLOPHORA
Hindi : Antamul, Jangli-pirwan

Tamil : Nachchurupan, Naypalai, Peyppalai
Telugu : Verri-pala, Kukkapala
Malayalam : Vallipala
Bengali : Anto-mul
(i) Description
The plant is found in Bengal and other parts of India. Its roots and leaves are endowed with
emetic properties. The dried leaf is a substitute for Ipecacuantia.
(ii) Uses of Powdered Dried Leaves
Dose of the powdered dried leaves as an emetic is 40 to 50 grains for an adult. It is an

expectorant and diaphoretic in small doses (5 to 10 grains). The powder of the dried leaves is
useful in dysentery and diarrhoea, in doses of 10 grains, three or four times daily.
43. COUNTRY SARSAPARILLA
(THE ROOT OF HEMIDESMUS INDICUS)
English : Indian Sarsaparilla

Hindi Kanarese : Magrabu Salsa, Jangli-Chanbelii
Tamil : Sugandha-palada
Telugu : Nannariver
Malayalam : Sugandhi
Marathi : Nannari
Bengali : Uparsari
Sanskrit : Anantamul
Sanskrit : Saribha
This is the dried root of Hemidesmus Indicus. This is a good alterative, tonic, demulcent,
diuretic, diaphoretic.
(i) Its Importance Emphasised in Ayurvedic Scriptures
This is a kind of creeper that grows by itself in India in the jungles. The root has a good aroma.
It is slightly bitter.
The freshly collected root is preferable to that bought in the bazaars. The virtues of the drug
abide chiefly in the bark of the root.
Ayurvedic scriptures unanimously glorify Sarsaparilla thus "It is a sweet, refreshing nervine
tonic. It destroys poison, allays all irritation, increases strength and vitality. It removes indiges-
tion, loss of appetite, difficulty in breathing, cough, venereal diseases in men and women,
rheumatism, fever, all skin and blood impurities and mercurial poisons."
(ii) Its Utility in Many Diseases
Sarsaparilla removes excessive thirst, excessive saliva-tion in the mouth, biliousness, ring-
worm, heat of sexual inter-course, syphilis. Iodised sarsaparilla is an allopathic patent medicine.
It pu-rifies blood. It is useful in syphilis.
Hemidesmus is useful in constitutional debility that arises from any cause. Constitutional
syphilis, skin diseases and ul-cerations, particularly those of syphilitic origin, chronic rheuma-
tism, indigestion and loss of appetite. It is best given in the form of infusion.
(iii) Sarsaparilla Coffee—I
Re: Sarsaparilla root bruised 1 ounce

Infuse for 1 hour and strain. Add milk and sugar. Dose: 2 to 3 ounces thrice daily. Take the
infusion while it is still warm. This is a very good substitute for tea or coffee, for children and
adults. Useful in debility and indigestion, syphilis, skin dis-eases, chronic rheumatism, chronic
paralysis, sexual debility.
(iv) Sarsaparilla Coffee—II
Re: Sarsa root dried powder 2 drachms

Cow milk ½ seer
Take in the early morning. Useful in all urinary diseases, stricture of urethra with dysuria or
difficulty in passing urine, burning urine, etc.
(v) Sarsaparilla Drink
Re: Sarsaparilla powder 1 drachm

Cumin seeds 20 grains
Water 20 ounces
This can be used as drinking water. This is useful in all the diseases described above.
(vi) Sarsaparilla Sherbet
Re: Sarsa root bruised 4 ounces

Sugar 8 ounces
.
Soak the powder in boiling water for 6 hours. Then strain. Add sugar and put this over slow fire,
till you get the consis-tency of syrup. Dose: 2 ounces with a tablespoonful of water. This purifies
the blood, cools the body and removes diseases of the skin.
The Bengal Chemical Pharmaceutical Works Ltd., Cal-cutta, prepare Sarsac Liquidum and
Sarsa Liquid Compound. Saribadi Asava and Saribadyarishta (Sariva quath) are two good
Ayurvedic preparations made out of Sarsaparilla. Asava is an infusion in cold water. Arishta is a
decoction made by boiling.
Saribadi Asava is useful in scrofulous swelling, chronic gonorrhoea and syphilis. It improves
digestion, invigorates the system, enriches the blood and binds up flesh and strength. It also
assists nature in carrying off the morbid or unhealthy se-cretion of the skin and cures pimples,
boils, etc.
(vii) Saribadyarishta
This is useful in rheumatic pains, skin diseases, scrofula, constitutional debility, etc. It gives tone
to the liver, removes bil-iousness and improves the blood qualitatively and quantita-tively. Dose:
½ to 2 ounces.
(viii) Sariva Quath (decoction)
This is a valuable alterative, diaphoretic, diuretic and tonic useful as a diuretic in rheumatic
pains, boils, scanty and high-coloured urine, gravel, etc. As a diaphoretic and tonic it is given in
fevers with loss of appetite and disinclination for food (anorexia). As an alternative it is valuable
in chronic rheuma-tism, skin-diseases, scrofula, syphilis, cachexia, constitutional debility, etc.
Dose: ½ to 2 tolas twice daily.
44. CROTON SEEDS
English : Croton-oil seed, Purgative Croton

Hindi : Jamalgotti
Kanarese : Japala beeja
Tamil : Nervalam
Telugu : Nepalam
Malayalam : Nervalam
Marathi : Napalacha-bij
Gujarati : Jamla-gota
Bengali : Jamal-gota
Sanskrit : Danthi
The seeds of croton Tilgium. They should be fresh. They are about the size of a grain of coffee.
They are oval. The taste is acrid and pungent. It is a violent purgative, good local rubefacient
and stimulant. It is a powerful gastro-intestinal irri-tant. The extracted oil from the seeds is
generally used.
(ii) Croton Pill
Remove the outer shell. Boil the seeds 3 times in milk. Af-ter boiling remove the outer skin and
little leaf-like thing which will be found between the two-halves of the kernel. If the latter is not
removed, it will cause violent griping and vomiting.
Re: Purified croton seeds powder 30 grains

Catechu 60 grains
Honey or gum q.s.
Beat them into an even mass. Mix the ingredients thor-oughly. Divide into pills, each weighing 2
grains. Dose: One pill for an adult. This should be given only when a strong purgative is needed
as in apoplexy, convulsion, strong fevers, etc. If it causes much griping and vomiting or too
violent purging give to the patient a large draught of lime juice. This may be safely re-peated in
half an hour if the vomiting and purging continue. Never take any croton pill unless you know
well that the croton is purified by a qualified, Ayurvedic doctor.
Re: Croton oil 1 drop

Sugar a lump or 1 teaspoonful
A powerful purgative in cerebral haemorrhage or apoplexy and convulsion. It can be made into
a pill with bread crumb. In apoplexy when the patient is unable to swallow, it is sufficient to place
the oil at the base of the tongue. It should not be given to children and boys. It should be given
only to adults.
(iii) Croton Oil Liniment
Re: Croton oil 4 teaspoonfuls

Sessamum oil, or Cocoanut oil, or
Mustard oil 6 ounces
This is a useful stimulating liniment for chronic rheuma-tism, paralysis, diseases of the joints,
chronic bronchitis, etc.
(iv) How to Purify Croton
Tie a few seeds in a handkerchief and boil this in cowdung water, cow's urine and fruit Juice
(lemon) separately. Then re-move the shell, skin and the inner leaf between the two halves of
the seed. Then fry the seeds in cow's ghee.
45. CUBEBS
(KABAB CHINI)
English Tailpepper
Hindi Sitalchini
Kanarese Gandha menasu
Tamil Val-mulaku
Telugu Toka-miriyalu
Malayalam Valmilaku
Marathi Kankora
Gujarati Tadamiri
Bengali Sitalchini
Sanskrit Sungadha-muricha
(i) Description and the Uses
This is the dried, full-grown, unripe fruit of Piper Cubeba (tail pepper). It is of the size of black
pepper. It is a small black seed. It has an acrid camphoraceous taste and a peculiar aro-matic
odour. It can be obtained in most of the bazaars. It is a stimulant, urinary antiseptic, carminative,
diuretic, expectorant. Its main action is on the genito-urinary passages; it stimulates the
secretion of the respiratory and genito-urinary tracts. Dose: 30 to 60 grains.
The two chief allopathic preparations are Tincture Cubebac (dose 30 to 60 minims), and Oil of
Cubeb (dose 5 to 20 minims: suspended in mucilage).
Cubebs is useful in cough, gastric catarrh, excessive thirst, gastritis, advanced stages of
gonorrhoea, gleet, leucorrhoea and other vaginal discharges in women.
(ii)Cubebs Co. Powder-I
Re: Cubebs powder 20 grains

Alum powder 5 grains
(iii)Cubebs Co. Powder-II
Re: Cubebs powder 10 grains
Potassium nitrate 5 grains
Dose: One powder thrice daily. Useful in gonorrhea.
(iv)Cough Mixture
Re: Cubebs 10 grains

Cinnamon water 1 ounce
Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. Useful in Bronchitis or cough and laryngitis.
(v)Cubebs with Hot Milk
Re: Cubebs 20 grains

Sugarcandy 4 drachms
Hot milk 1/2 seer
Useful in hoarseness of voice.The voice will improve.
(vi)Cubebs Oil Mixture
Re: Oil of Cubeb 5 minims

Oil of copaiba 5 minims
Oil of sandal wood 5 minims
Mucilage q.s.
Aqua Cinnamon 1 ounce
Mix together. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily after food. Useful in gonorrhea and gleet. The oil can
be taken along with white sugar.
(vii)Cubeb Decoction
Re: Cubeb powder 1 drachm

Liquorice powder 1 drachm
Long pepper powder 1 drachm
Galangal (Chittaratai) 1 drachm
Water 1 ounce
Boil for half an hour. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls thrice daily. Useful in bronchitis or cough.
(viii)Cubebs with Honey
Re: Cubeb powder 30 grains

Honey q.s.
Dose: Thrice daily. Useful in cough, gastritis, gonorrhea. The appetite will increase. Instead of
honey you can take the powder with milk.
Make a paste of cubeb powder and apply it to the temples and forehead. Headache will be
relieved.
Section –II
CHAPTER XV
DHATURA, DILL SEEDS AND DRIED GINGER
46.DHATURA
(THORN APPLE, STRAMONIUM)
English : Thornapple
Hindi : Dhatura
Kanarese : Ummatte
Tamil : Umattai
Telugu : Ummaeththa
Malayalam : Ummaththam
Marathi : Dhatori
Gujarati : Dhatura
Bengali : Dhatura
Sanskrit : Datura
(i)Properties, Varieties and Uses
The dried and flowering tops of Dhatura Alba Fatuosa and DhaturaTalula. Dhatura is an emetic,
antispasmodic, anodyne, narcotic. It is chiefly used for relief of asthma. Seeds are used by
poisoners in sweetmeat or hooka. The varieties of Dhatura are white, black and purple. The
flowers are white, black and purple. In overdoses, Dhatura acts as a powder narcotic poison.
Dhatura is a substitute for Belladonna in the treatment of cataract and other diseases of the eye.
It dilates the pupil. The leaves and flowers contain alkaloids, mostly hyoscyamine, a lit-tle of
atropine and hyoscine. The total alkaloids are sometimes called daturine.
In the allopathic system there are three preparations, viz., 1. Extractum Stramonii Liquidium
(dose ½ to 3 minims); 2. Extractum Stramonii Siccum (dose: ¼ , to 1 grain); and 3. Tr.
Stramonii (dose: 5 to 30 minims).
Stramonium has the usual belladonna action but is more commonly used as anti-spasmodic in
bronchial asthma by in-halation (powdered leaves) as well as orally (extract or tinc-ture). The
tincture generally produces all the sedative and narcotic effects of opium. It is very cheap also. It
is better to commence with small doses of 10 drops and increase them to 20 or 30 drops
according to circumstances. As a general rule 20 drops will be equal in effect to one grain of
opium.
Dhatura produces dilatation of the pupil. The eye should therefore be examined when this
remedy is being adminis-tered. If the pupil is found very large and dilated, it should be stopped.
(ii) For Inhalation in Asthma
Re: Potassium nitrate 1 ounce

Dhatura leaves 1 ounce
Anisi 1 ounce
Fumes of 60 grains of the burnt powder are inhaled for bronchial asthma.
(iii) Dhatura Cigarette
Re: Dried Dhatura leaves 15 grains

Smoke in a pipe. The leaves can be made into cigarettes also. Useful in asthma and
paroxysmal cough.
(iv) Dhatura Fomentation
Re: Dhatura leaves 1 ounce

Useful in lumbago, pleurodynic or neuralgic pain in the chest and dysmenorrhoea or difficulty in
menstruation.
(v) Dhatura Poultice
Bruise the fresh leaves into a pulp with hot water and ap-ply this to painful joints. This is useful
in lumbago also. The hot pulp can be mixed with a poultice of rice flour or wheat flour. In Guinea
worm Dhatura poultice relieves the pain and hastens the expulsion of the worm.
(vi) Dhatura Liniment
Re: Dhatura seeds (powder) 1 ounce

Gingily oil 20 ounces
Macerate 10 days and strain. Useful in lumbago, pain in the chest, etc.
Warm the leaves and foment the swollen joints in rheuma-tism, swollen bones. The pain and
swelling will subside.
47. DILL SEEDS
(ANETHI SOYAH)
English : Dill Seed

Hindi : Sowa
Kanarese : Sabbasige
Tamil : Chatha Kuppai
Telugu : Shatakupi-vittulu
Malayalam : Shepu
Marathi : Chatakuppa
Gujarati : Surva-nu-bi
Bengali : Soolpha
Sanskrit : Sthatapushpi
The dried fruit of Peucedanum Graveolens, Anetheum Sowa. It is cultivated all-throughout India
and obtained from Middle and South of Europe. It is brown in colour and the smell is agreeable
and aromatic.
The Allopathic preparations are (1) Aqua Anethi Concen-trate (dose: 5 to 15 minims or drops):
(2) Aqua Anethi Distillata (dose: y2to 1 fluid ounce) and (3) Oil of Anethi or Oleum Anethi (dose:
1 to 3 minims).
Dill is carminative, deobstruent, diuretic, emmennagogue, stimulant, aromatic, stomachic. The

leaf has antispasmodic property. Dill seed is obtainable in all bazaars. Dill is useful in headache,
nasal catarrh, paralysis, pain in the anus, coryza. It increases the gastric fire and invigorates the
appetite. It stimu-lates and strengthens the liver, lungs and stomach. 1 to 3 drops of Oil of Dill
can be given to children with sugar for flatulence, indigestion and colic.
(ii) Dill Water
Re: Dill seeds bruised 4 drachms

Infuse for y2 hour and strain. Dose: 1 to 4 teaspoonfuls. For children give two teaspoonfuls
sweetened with a little sugar. Useful in flatulence or wind in the stomach and bowels, gastritis,
abdominal pain or colic, and colic in children. The effi-cacy is much increased by the addition of
a teaspoonful of lime water Dill water is a good carminative for children and covers well the
taste of sodium salts.
(iii) Dill and Lime Water
Re: Dill water 2 ounces

Lime water 2 ounces
Dose: 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls. Useful in abdominal pain or intestinal colic and flatulence.
(iv) D.L.A. Water
Re: Dill water 2 ounces

Lime water 2 ounces
Anisi Water 2 ounces
Syrup of orange 2 ounces
Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls. Useful in flatulence and colic of children. This is a famous recipe or
prescription for children.
(v) Dill Flower Decoction
Re: Dill flower 1 ounce

Water 10 ounces
Boil for 20 minutes. Strain. Dose: 1 teaspoonful; twice daily. Useful in flatulence, indigestion and
colic.
(vi) For Confinement Women
Re: Dill leaves 1 ounce

Infuse for 1 hour. Useful for confinement women. This will help the free flow of uterine
discharge.
(vii) Dill Leaf Poultice
Apply any oil to the leaves. Fry them a little bit over gentle fire and apply them to boils,
abscesses, and swellings. This will hasten suppuration and bursting.
(viii) Dill Leaf Powder
Re: Dry Dill leaf powder 1 ounce

Sugar 1 ounce
Mix together. Dose: 1 teaspoonful thrice daily. Useful in cough, headache, cold in the head, ear-
ache, indigestion, co-ryza, piles, etc. The leaf should not be given to pregnant women as it will
induce abortion.
(ix) Dill Juice
Re: Juice of the leaf 2 ounces

Honey ½ ounce
Dose: 20 drops every 4 hours. Useful in flatulence, fits and colic of children: serviceable in
epilepsy also. The juice can also be applied to the body. The juice can be mixed with a little
Golochan or Gorochanai. Gorochanai is a panacea or cure-all for all diseases of children. It
renders the action of dill juice more efficacious.
48. DRIED GINGER
English : Dried Ginger

Hindi ; Sonth
Kanarese : Ona Shunti or Sunti
Tamil : Chukku
Telugu : Sonti
Malayalam : Sunt
Marathi : Chukku
Gujarati : Adu
Bengali : Sonth
Sanskrit : Nagaram
(i) Aromatic, Stimulant and Carminative
It is the dried root of zingiber officinale. It is a strong aro-matic stimulant, somachic and
craminative. It has an agreeable odour and pungent taste.2
(ii) Uses and Preparations
It is useful in lumbago, indigestion, sour belching, nasal catarrh, flatulence, nausea or retching,
intestinal colic, etc.
Put one or two pinch of powder of dried ginger in hot milk and take. This will remove all
rheumatic pains.
Make a paste of this powder with water, heat it and apply to the head. It will relieve headache.
Apply it to rheumatic swell-ing of joints. The swelling and pain will subside.
Sonth enters into the composition of Soubhagya Sonti Lehiam or confection, Kandathri Lehiam,
Sonti Choorna or di-gestive powder,
Infusion of ginger is useful in flatulence and colic. Put one ounce of Sonth in one pint or 20
ounces of boiling water. Infuse for one hour and strain. Dose: two tablespoonfuls.
You can make a plaster of Sonth. Take one ounce of gin-ger powder. Add sufficient water just to
make it a plaster. Put it on a piece of lint or cloth and apply to the head. This is useful in
headache.
Take Sonth 10 grains. Ajawan 30 gr. Cardamom powder 30 gr. Take one powder after food,
twice daily. This is very use-ful in dyspepsia or indigestion, flatulence and intestinal colic.
CHAPTER XVI
EDIBLE HIBISCUS, ESSENCE OF GINGER, FENUGREEK
49. EDIBLE HIBISCUS
(LADY'S FINGER)
English : Edible Hibiscus

Hindi : Bhindi, Ram Turai
Kanarese : Bende
Tamil : Vendaikkai
Telugu : Bendakaya
Malayalam : Venda
Marathi : Bhenda
Gujarati : Bhindu
Bengali : Dheras, Dhenras, Ram-torai
Sanskrit : Golihwaka
(I) Description, Properties and Uses
Edible Hibiscus is also known by the names Abelmoschus or Okra. This is a vegetable
cultivated throughout India. It is re-frigerant aphrodisiac, demulcent, diuretic and emollient.
There is an abundant, bland, viscid mucilage in this vegetable which possesses valuable
emollient and demulcent properties. The dried fruit may be used where it is not obtainable in a
fresh state. It is useful in cough, dysuria or difficulty in passing urine with burning pain,
dysentery, gonorrhoea.
(ii) Lady's Finger Decoction
Re: Fresh Vegetable cut

transversely 3 ounces
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 20 minutes and strain. Add sugar to taste. This can be taken as an ordinary drink. For
fevers, cough, irritable state of the bladder and kidneys, gonorrhoea with difficulty in pass-ing
urine and scalding pain, dysentery. The urine increases in quantity. In chronic dysentery the
mucilage is highly beneficient.
The inhalation of the vapour of the hot decotion is useful in cough, hoarseness and dry and
irritable states of the throat, sores in the throat. The fresh vegetable or leaf of the plant bruised
is an efficient emollient poultice for boils, wounds, swelling etc.
50. ESSENCE OF GINGER
Its Colour and Its Uses
This is strong tincture of ginger, Tinctura Zingiberis Fortier. This is of a bright, slightly yellowish
colour. It increases the ap-petite and stimulates digestion. It is a stomachic tonic. It is use-ful in
diarrhoea, flatulence or wind in the stomach and bowels and intestinal colic. Does: 5 to 20 drops
for an adult. 1 to 5 drops for a child, one year old.
51. FENUGREEK
(TRIGONELLA FOENUM)
English : Fenugreek
Hindi : Methi
Kanarese : Menthe Gida
Tamil : Vendayam
Telugu : Menthuiu
Malayalam : Venthayam, Uluva
Marathi : Methi
Gujarati : Methi
Bengali : Methi
Sanskrit : Methi, Methika
This is a of edible leaf. It is grown all over India. The leaf is refrigerant and laxative. The seed is
diuretic, carmina-tive, demulcent, aphrodisiac, emmenagogue, emollient and as-tringent.
(ii) Methi Leaf
The leaf is useful in flatulence or wind in the stomach and bowels, dyspepsia or indigestion,
bronchitis, anorexia or dis-taste for food. The leaf can be used as a poultice for swellings, burns
and scalds. Make a paste of the leaf, heat it and apply to the swollen part and burns and scalds.
Boil the leaves. Fry them slightly with a little ghee. Add a little cumin seeds and black pepper
and salt and eat. It will re-move rheumatic pain in the back and waist (lumbago) and other parts
of the body.
(iii) Confection of Leaf
Re: Fenugreek leaves 8 ounces

Almonds 2 ounces
Pepper seeds 1 ounce
Fine Ravva (semolina) 4 ounces
Ghee 4 ounces
Milk 4 ounces
Sugar 8 ounces
Boil the leaves. Prepare the confection just as you pre-pare Halwa. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls in the
morning. It will give you strength, Pushti and beauty.
Boil the leaves. Add honey and rub them well. Eat it. You will have good motion. It will clean the
bowels, remove chest pain, cough, piles and heal ulcers in the bowels.
(iv) Methi Decoction

Re: Methi leaves 1 ounce
Ripe figs 1 ounce
Resins 1 ounce
Water 10 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes and strain. Add a little honey. Dose: 2 ounces three times daily. Useful in
pain in the chest and dyspnoea or difficulty of breathing.
(v) Methi Seeds
Methi seeds are useful in diarrhoea, dysentery with mu-cus and blood, excessive heat in the
body, excessive thirst, cough, consumption, gonorrhoea, body-consuming fever in children
(Kanai). Soak half a teaspoonful of the seeds in quar-ter of a seer of curd. This is useful in
dysentery. The seed pro-tects the mucous membrane of the intestines from irritation on account
of its demulcent properties. Methi Iddali (Madrasi prep-aration) is also useful in dysentery.
(vi)Methi Laddu
Methi Laddu Methi Laddus are useful in rheumatism, lumbago, etc. Methi Laddu is prepared out
of Methi seeds, sugar, ghee and Ravva (wheat).
(vii) Methi Seeds with Rice
Take equal parts of Methi seeds, mustard, turmeric and asafoetida. Fry them in a pan with a
little ghee. Powder them. Put the powder in the rice and eat. This is useful in pain in the
stomach and bowels, flatulence or wind in the bowels, enlarge-ment or congestion of the liver.
(viii) Methi Soup or Kuzhambhu
Take a few dried chillies, mustard, Methi seeds, Tur-ki dhall, asafoetida, sweet nim leaves. Fry
them in a pan with a lit-tle ghee. Pour over this tamarind water. Add salt. Cover this with a
vessel. Boil down to half. This can be taken with rice. This is useful in rheumatic pain all over
the body. This is a sto-machic, digestive and appetizer.
CHAPTER XVII
FOUR O'CLOCK FLOWER, FRESH GINGER, GALANGAL
52. FOUR O'CLOCK FLOWER
(MIRABILIS JALAPA)
English : Four o' Clock Flower

Hindi : Gule-aabbas
Tamil : Andimalli
Kanarese : Madhyana mallige
Telugu : Chandrakanta
Malayalam : Antimantaram
Sanskrit : Sandhya-raga
(i) Derivation of the Name
This is cultivated in India in the gardens. It gives beauty to the gardens. It blossoms in the
evening after 3 or 4 o'clock. Hence the significant name Andhimalli, four o'clock flower. The
flower is white. There are the red and yellow varieties also.
(ii) The Leaf a Deobstruent, the Root a Laxative
The leaf is a deobstruent, or resolvent. It reduces swelling. The root is laxative and a nutrient.
(iii) Preparations and Uses
The leaves are warmed, smeared with castor oil and then applied to swellings. The swellings
subside; or the suppuration or ripening is hastened. The juice of the leaf is useful in itch or
scabies. It can be applied to the affected parts. A paste of the leaf heals wounds. A paste of the
root is useful in contusion as an external applica-tion.
Make a paste with a little milk, mix it in milk and drink. This will remove constipation.
Fry the root with a little ghee and eat. This will give you strength and vigour.
53. FRESH GINGER
English : Fresh ginger

Hindi : Adrakh
Kanarese : Hose Shunti
Tamil : Ingi
Telugu : Allamu
Marati : Ala
Bengali : Ada
: Ardhrakam
Sanskrit
This contains a volatile oil which gives the flavour, gingerol which gives the pungent taste and
some resins and allied sub-stances.
(i) Ginger with Milk
Make thin slices of ginger after removing the skin and put them in milk when it is heated. This
will give good flavour to the milk and remove rheumatic pains, dyspepsia, wind, etc.
(ii) Ginger Juice Preparation

Mix equal parts of fresh ginger juice, fresh lemon juice and honey. Take 2 or 3 tablespoonfuls in
the early morning in empty stomach. This will remove dyspepsia or biliousness, purify the blood,
stop bleeding from the gums and stimulate digestion.
(iii) Allopaths and Ginger Preparations
Allopaths prepare strong tincture of ginger, weak tincture of ginger and syrup of ginger (Syrupus
Zingiberis) from ginger. Put in a vessel some fresh ginger slices, some coriander seeds, some
cumin seeds and some resins. Pour half a seer of water. Boil and reduce it to a quarter of a
seer. Strain. Add some sugarcandy to taste. Drink this. This is useful in biliousness and
dyspepsia.
(iv) Kitchen & Some Common Uses of Ginger
Fresh ginger is always added in Sojee Dosais, Vadais, Patchadie, Adais, etc., as it has
stomachic and carminative properties.
54. GALANGAL
(ALPINIA GALANGA)
English : Java Galangal

Hindi : Saphed-Panaki-Jhael
Kanarese : Rasmi
Tamil : Arattai
Telugu : Sanna-rashtramu
Malayalam : Aratha
Marathi : Kosht-Kulinjan
Bengali : Sugandhavacha
Sanskrit : Rasna
(i) Its Two Varieties and Its Uses
There are two varieties, namely, Galangal the lesser (Chittaratai) and Galangal the greater
(Perarattai). This is culti-vated in the hottest parts of India. Galangal is an expectorant, febrifuge
and a stomachic. Galangal is useful in cough with sputum, asthma, bronchitis, eczema, chest
pain, piles, swell-ing, dental neuralgia or tooth-pain, vomiting, biliousness, wind or flatulence,
headache and fever. It increases the appetite.
(ii) Galangal Powder
Re: Galangal powder Honey 20 grains

(iii) Galangal Infusion
Re: Galangal powder 2 teaspoonfuls

Pour the water over the powder that is kept in a vessel. Keep it for 2 hours. Strain. Dose: 2
tablespoonfuls twice daily. Add 2 tablespoonfuls of honey for a dose. The above powder and the
infusion are useful in the above diseases.
Chew a small piece of Galangal. Bronchitis or cough and vomiting will be relieved. The sputum
will be expelled easily. You can take a small piece of sugarcandy along with the piece of
Galangal.
Burn a piece. Mix 2 or 3 grains of the ash with a little honey and human milk. This is useful in
cough, vomiting and cold of children.
(iv) Galangal Decoction
Re: Liquorice powder 1 teaspoonful

Galangal (small) powder 1 teaspoonful
Talisapathra powder 1 teaspoonful
Long pepper powder 1 teaspoonful
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 20 minutes. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls twice daily. Add 2 teaspoonfuls of honey. Useful in
bronchitis, cough, accu-mulation of sputum in the chest, fever, headache, cold in the head, etc.
Galangal (the great) is useful in rheumatism, biliousness, fever with cold, cough with sputum,
cold in the head, menstrual disorder, Sannipath, and all kinds of poisons.
CHAPTER XVIII
GALLA. GARJAN OIL, GARLIC, GULANCHA
55. GALLS OR GALLA
English : Galls
Hindi : Mazhufal, Kakra Singi
Tamil : Masikkai, Kakata-Shingi
Telugu : Kakara Shingi
Marathi : Kakad Singi
Gujarati : Kakad Singi
Bengali : Kakra Singi
Sanskrit : Karkata Shringi
(i) Description
Gall nut is the excrescence on Quercus Infectoria due to the puncture and deposit of eggs of
Cynips Gallae Tinctoria. It contains 60 to 75 per cent of tannic acid and 2 to 5 per cent of gallic
acid. It is obtainable in all bazaars. Gall is imported from Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Persia.
Dose: 10 to 20 grains.
(ii) Three Varieties and Many Uses
There are three varieties, viz., black, blue and white. Black and Blue varieties are the best. This
is a powerful astringent. styptic, tonic and anti-periodic. Gall gives strength to the body and
removes persistent, inner heat, "Kanaichoodu" of children (heat with wasting of body). Gall is an
antidote to lime water, opium, aconite, copper sulphate.
The two allopathic preparations are: (1) Gall Ointment and (2) Gall and Opium Ointment. The
Ointment of galls and opium is a reputed and a favourite application for piles or haemor-rhoids.
This ointment relieves pain and stops bleeding.
Krakadaga Singhi (Tamil), Karkata Shringi (Sanskrit), Kakra Singi (Hindi), Pistacia Integerrima
(Latin) are different names of the Galls (English). The galls contain 60 per cent of tannin and a
little volatile oil. This is used in Ayurvedic and Yunani medicines.
Galls can be taken in the form of powder or infusion. A de-coction is better
(iii) Gall Decoction
Re: Galls (bruised) 2 ounces

Water 20 ounces or 1 pint
Boil for 15 minutes and strain. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls thrice daily. Useful in diarrhoea, internal
haemorrage, dysen-tery, dyspepsia, cough and much sputum or bleeding, exces-sive
perspiration. It is a beneficial astringent, gargle and application for piles, prolapsed or descent of
rectum, and a useful injection for prolapse or descent of uterus or womb, gon-orrhoea. In
children keep a pad saturated with the decoction over the external parts after the protruded
bowel has been re-turned. Gall decoction can be used as a lotion for washing wounds in all
parts of the body and ulcers in the nose, as an en-ema in diarrhoea, dysentery; for stopping
bleeding in the nose. Plug the nose with a little cotton dipped in the lotion.
(iv) Compound Gall Powder
Re: Galls (powder) 10 grains

One powder. Dose: One powder thrice daily. Useful in di-arrhoea.
(v) Compound Gall Pill
Re: Gall powder 5 grains

Opium powder ¼ grains
Honey q.s.
Make one pill. Dose: One pill twice daily. Useful in diar-rhoea. As soon as the motions stop,
discontinue the pill. The pill should not be given to a child.
(vi) Gall and Ghee Ointment
Re: Gall powder 2 drachms

Ghee 1 ounce
Mix well. Useful in piles. If there is intense pain, 30 grains of opium may be added. Instead of
Ghee you can use Vaseline white or yellow.
(vii) Gall Gargle
Re: Alum 30 grains

Honey or glycerine 1 ounce
Decoction of galls 10 ounces
Useful in tonsillitis and sore throat; ulcer in the tongue and mouth.
(viii) Plain Gall Powder

Sugar 10 grains
Mix one powder. Dose: One powder thrice daily. Useful in gleet, vomiting of blood. bloody urine,
menorrhagea or excessive menstruation, bleeding in piles, bleeding from nose, chronic or
long-standing gonorrhoea. This will check the dis-charge. This is also beneficial in leucorrhoea
or whites and other vaginal discharges of women. The decoction may also be injected. Then the
treatment is more effective.
(ix) Gall Snuff
Re: Gall powder (fine) 1 ounce

Use this as snuff for coryza or old standing nasal catarrh with bleeding from the nose.
(x) Gall and Benzoin Ointment
Re: Gall powder 1 drachms

Benzoin powder (Sambrani) 1 drachms
Opium 20 grains
White Vaseline 1 ounce
Useful in piles or haemorrhoids.
In poisoning by nux vomica, Datura, opium and aconite, give an emetic and then give a
decoction of galls 4 ounces ev-ery 15 minutes for 5 times. This will serve the purpose of an ef-
fective antidote.
(xi) For Intermittent Fever

Sugar 20 grains
One powder. Dose: One powder 3 times daily.
(xii) Gall and Chiretta

Infusion of Chiretta 1 ounce
One dose. Repeat this every hour four times before the period at which the fever usually
returns. Useful in intermittent fever.
(xiii) Tannic Acid
This is a kind of salt obtained from galls. It is a styptic and astringent. This is a pale, brownish
powder. It is also known by the name Tannin. Tannic acid glycerine, tannic acid suppository for
introducing into the rectum in diarrhoea, etc., tannic acid lozenges, are all prepared from tannic
acid.
Tannic acid glycerine is applied to the throat and tonsils in inflammatory conditions. A solution of
tannic acid (3%) is useful in burns. It should not be used on the face. Whenever you are
exposed to the risk of injury by fire, keep a tin of tannic acid oint-ment
(xiv) Tannic Acid Ointment
Re: Tannic acid 1 drachm

Vaseline 1 ounce
56 GARJAN OIL
(WOOD OIL)
Hindi : Garjan-ka-tel
Bengali : Garjion-tel
(i) Characteristics & Effective Uses
The balsamic exudation from disperocarpus turbinatus of laevis. It is an oleo-resin or balsam. It
is a transparent liquid of the consistence of olive oil of a dark-brown sherry colour. It has an
odour and taste like that of copaiba but less powerful. It is a good demulcent. It acts on the
mucous membrane of the bron-chial tubes like copaiba.
It has been used as a substitute for copaiba in the treat-ment of gonorrhoea. It is a remedy of
great value in this dis-ease. It is most useful in the advanced stages of gonorrhoea or gleet. It is
useful also in leucorrhoea and other vaginal dis-charges. Dose: A teaspoonful two or three
times a day. It is given floating on omum or other aromatic water or made into an emulsion with
lime water or mucilage.
(ii) Garjan Oil Emulsion—I
Re: Garjan oil 1 drachm

Mucilage q.s.
Aqua 1 ounce
Dose: 1 ounce twice d ally after food. Useful in gonorrhoea and gleet. This acts like paiba.
(iii) Garjan Oil Emulsion—II
Re: Garjan oil 1 drachm

Mucilage q.s.
Lime water 4 drachm
Water 1 ounce
One dose. To be taken twice daily after food. Useful in lep-rosy. Garjan oil is used externally in
the form of ointment.
(iv) Garjan Oil Ointment
Re: Garjan oil 1 part

Lime water 3 parts
Useful in leprosy. Rub the body thoroughly and perseveringly for 2 hours.
57.GARLIC
(LATIN: ALLIUM SATIVUM)
English : Garlic
Hindi : Lasan
Kanarese : Bellulli
Tamil : Vellulli, Vellaipoondu, Poondu
Telugu : Vellulli, Thella-gadda
Malayalam : Vellulli
Marathi : Lasun
Gujarati : Lasan
Bengali : Rasun
Sanskrit : Lasuna
(i) Properties of Garlic
Garlic is more pungent than chillies. It is a root. Properties: Carminative, stomachic, tonic,
alterative. stimulant, expecto-rant, diuretic and anthelmetic. It expels wind from the bowels,
invigorates the stomach, tones the system, expels sputum readily by liquifying it, increases the
secretion and flow of urine and kills thread and round worms in the bowels.
(ii) Uses of Garlic
It is useful in deafness, ear-ache, chronic bronchitis, asthma, consumption, shock or collapse,

dysentery, piles, fe-ver, debility, etc. Garlic is used externally as a counter-irritant, and
rubefacient. Make a paste of garlic with a little water and apply to small boils, chronic
inflammation, and swelling. The boils and swellings will be resolved.
Garlic contains an essential oil, Oleum Allii, which is a po-tent antiseptic. Allyl Sulphide (1 to 2
drops) is given in foeted bronchitis and consumption cavity. It is used as a lotion for washing
infected wounds and foul ulcers. Garlic juice one part with water 8 parts makes a good
antiseptic lotion.
Garlic juice is useful in Pneumonia. Give 30 drops of juice thrice daily. It is serviceable in
whooping cough. It reduces blood pressure in an effective manner. It is beneficial in atonic
dyspepsia, wind in the bowels and intestinal colic. Give a tea-spoonful of the juice every four
hours in early cases of typhoid. The attack will be checked.
Garlic rasam, a preparation like pepper water relieves all sorts of rheumatic pain, lumbago, etc.
Garlic confection is taken by women after a delivery. It is a tonic for them.
The juice is useful in sprain and contusion. It should be applied to the affected parts.
A little juice of garlic poured in the ear removes temporary deafness and earache.
(iii) Ear Drops
Re: Garlic 1 drachm

Nim-leaves 1 drachm
Mustard oil (or sessamum oil) 2 ounces
Heat the mixture till the garlic and nim leaves become black. Strain. This is useful in earache,
discharge from the ears, etc.
(iv) Dysentery Confection
Re: Boiled garlic 1 ounce

Ghee 1 ounce
Black sugar 1 ounce
Mix well. Dose: One teaspoonful twice or thrice daily. Use-ful in dysentery.
(v) Liniment
Re: Garlic 1 ounce

Mustard oil (or Cocoanut oil) 8 ounces
Boil well. This is useful as an external application in rheu-matism, itching, etc. The juice is useful
in elongation of the uvula. Apply it with a cotton swab. It is useful in diphtheria too. Give 20 or 30
drops of the juice, twice or thrice daily. This is useful in bronchitis and worms in the bowels.
Instead of juice you can give a decoction of garlic.
(vi) Garlic Decoction
Re: Garlic 1 drachm

Water 8 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes. Dose: One teaspoonful thrice daily. Garlic may be boiled in milk also.
58. GULANCHA
(TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA)
English : Heart-leared moonseed

Hindi : Gulancha, Gulbel
Kanarese : Amritavalli
Tamil : Shindikodi, Amritavalli
Telugu : Tippa-tiga, Gaduchi
Malayalam : Amruta, Chitramruta
Marathi : Gula-veli
Gujarati : Gul-vel
Bengali : Gulancha
Sanskrit : Guduchi
(i) Description
This twining shrub is common in most parts of India. The root and stems are the parts used in
medicine. They should be collected in the hot season when the bitter principle is most abundant
and concentrated. It is obtainable in most bazaars. It is found in abundance in Western India,
Burma, Ceylon. The bitter principle is known by the name berberine.
Tincture Tinosporoe. Dose: 30 to 60 minims or drops.
(ii) Beneficial Effects of Tinosporoe
Tinosporoe is a bitter tonic without tannin. It is a good sub-stitute for calumba. It is an anti-
periodic. It may be used with iron and quinine during convalescence from malaria. It is a di-
uretic, alterative, antiperiodic, aphrodisiac, demulcent, hepatic, stimulant, stomachic. Gulancha
is a very useful tonic. It is best given in infusion.
(iii) Gulancha Compound Infusion

Re: Gulancha bruised 1 drachm
Coriander 1 drachm
Liquorice 1 drachm
Anisi 1 drachm
Infuse for 1 hour and strain. Dose: 1 ounce twice daily. Useful in intermittent fever, dyspepsia,
flatulence, debility after fevers, heat in the stomach, chronic rheumatism and paralysis.
Gulancha oil. Gulancha ghee are made out of this drug: The leaf is a good medicine for ulcers.
Show the leaf over a gentle fire then apply it over the ulcer and then bandage. The ulcer will
heal up quickly.
(iv) Sat-Gilo or Giloka-sat
This is an extract of Gulancha. It is a white powder ob-tained by powdering the stem and
extracting the starch with water. It is held in high repute in intermittent fever. Dose: 1 to 3
drachms with milk and sugar. It is a tonic in debility after fever, in spleen affections, enlargement
of spleen etc. It is an efficient remedy in diseases of the bladder, particularly in chronic in-
flammation of the bladder. It is useful in Jaundice, cough, faint-ing, vomiting, accumulation of
phlegm or sputum in the respiratory tubes.
(v) Gulancha Infusion
Re: Gulancha bruised 2 ounces

Cold water 20 ounces
Infuse for 4 hours and strain. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. This is a tonic. This is useful in
dyspepsia after fevers, in mild forms of intermittent fevers,.in constitutional debility and loss of
appetite after these and other fevers. It is useful in chronic rheumatism also. Gulancha is
rendered more agreeable by the addition of cinnamon, cloves or other aromatics.
(vi) Gulancha Decoction
Re: Gulancha 1 drachm

Cloves 1 drachm
Cinnamon 1 drachm
Water 20 ounces
Boil till decoction is reduced to 10 ounces. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. A tonic after fever; useful
in dyspepsia. Gulancha can be combined with Chiretta.
(vii) Gulancha-Chiretta Decoction
Re: Gulancha 1 drachm

Chiretta 1 drachm
Dried Ginger 1 drachm
Cloves 1 drachm
Cardamom 1 drachm
Water 1 drachm
Boil down to half. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. A tonic after fever.
CHAPTER XIX
HOLY BASIL, HONEY, INDIAN ACALYPHA
59. HOLY BASIL
English : Holy Basil

Hindi, Kanarese, Tamil, Telugu
Malayalam,Gujarati, Sanskrit : Tulasi
Marathi : Chojharr
Bengali : Krishna Tulasi
(i) Religion and Holy Basil
Every Hindu keeps this plant in his house. A special altar is consecrated for the purpose. Daily
worship is offered. It is adored as a Goddess. The leaf is offered to Lord Hari, Lord Rama, Lord
Krishna during worship. Food that is prepared in the house is first offered to Tulasi.
Binda, wife of Sankhachuda was favoured by Lord Krishna and transferred into this herb. Tulasi
Jayanti is cele-brated on Sukla Dwadasi in the month of Kartik (Tamil: Appasi) October-
November. Every Sukla Dwadasi is very famous for Tulasi worship.
Holy Basil is a well-known small herb in India, about 1-3 feet long. It is found in most of the
gardens. It is cultivated for its medicinal value and worship in Hindu temples, especially by the
Vaishnavites.
(ii) The Black and the White
There are two important varieties. One is black and the other white. The black variety is most
efficacious medicinally. There are the red and blue varieties also. The other varieties are Mul-
Tulasi, Kal-Tulasi, Tiruneetu Pacchai. The white vari-ety is called Siva Tulasi also. The blck one
is called Krishna Tulasi. Tiruneetu Pacchai is also called Vibhuti Pachalai or Ramatulasi. In
Hindi it is called Sabja.
(iii) Properties of Leaves
The leaves posses stimulant, expectorant, aromatic, car-minative, antifebric, anti-periodic and
diaphoretic properties. The seed is a demulcent. The whole Tulasi plant is used for medicinal
purposes but the leaves are generally used.
(iv) The Uses of Leaves
The leaf checks the formation of sputum in the respiratory passages. It is beneficial in
bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping cough, influenza, consumption and Asthma. It is beneficial in
every disease where there is excess of sputum. The powder of dry leaves is used as snuff in
ozaena for destroying maggots. Like eucalyptus, Tulasi drives away all mosquitoes. It is
advisable to keep Tulasi plant in front of the houses and back-yards. If body is covered with
leaves, mosquitoes will not bite.
(v) Insect-bite and Tulasi
Tulasi is useful in all kinds of insect bites. In snake bite it is very efficacious. Rub the bitten part
well with the juice of Tulasi. It may be repeated. Internally give two teaspoonfuls of the juice.
Apply the leaves as poultice to the part.
Tulasi tea is very useful in fever and cold. You can add milk also to this tea.
(vi) The Tea, the Oil, the Seeds
This tea can be given to children when they suffer from fe-ver and cough with sputum; or the
juice of fresh leaves can be given. The juice can be mixed with a little honey or breast milk. If it
is given with an equal quantity of fresh ginger juice the effect is more marked. The powder of a
little pepper and long pepper may also be added.
The leaves are rubbed with the lime juice over ringworm.
The medicated oil (Tulasi leaves boiled with gingerly oil) is used as drops in ear-ache and in the
discharge of pus in the ears. It is put into the nose in ozaena.
The seeds are mucilaginous. They are used as a diuretic in scanty urine and cough.
Tulasi is useful in scorpion bite, constipation, remittent and intermittent fevers.
In Malaya people strew the leaves over the graves of their dead persons for the peace and
benefit of departed souls.
60. HONEY
(MEL DEPURATUM)
English : Honey
Hindi : Shahad
Kanarese : Jenu, Jenutuppa
Tamil : Taen
Telugu : Taene
Malayalam : Taen
Marathi : Madh
Gujarati : Madha
Bengali : Modha
Sanskrit : Madhu
(i) Value of Honey for Medicine Chest
Always keep some honey in your domestic medicine chest. It is an agreeable sweetening
ingredient for mixtures. It is a good vehicle in which to administer powders for children, and
Bhasma or metallic oxides like Makaradwaja, Vasanta Kusumakara, etc. Pills can be made with
the aid of honey.
Mel Depuratum is purified honey. Commercial honey is heated in water bath and while still hot,
is strained through warm flannel. This is the way to purify honey.
(ii) Glucose and Laevulose in Honey
It contains mainly glucose and Iaevulose. It has a charac-teristic odour with a sweet and faintly
acid taste.
Honey has got the nutritive value of sugars and is an arti-cle of diet with certain people. It is
prescribed for its soothing and flavouring properties. It makes good cough linctus. It is a laxative
and is given to children for this purpose. It relieves dry-ness of the mouth and facilitates
swallowing.
Honey contains 70 per cent of dextrose and laevulose also wax, dextrin, volatile oil and pollen.
(iii) Mel Borax
Re: Powder borax 10 parts

Purified honey 90 parts
Useful in ulcers in mouth, tongue, and nipples of nursing mother. This is a soothing, emollient
and demulcent applica-tion.
(iv) Oxymel
Re: Purified honey 70%

Acetic acid 15%
Water 15%
Dose: 30-120 minims or drops. This is a common ingredi-ent of cough mixtures. It is a very
good expectorant. It brings out the sputum easily.
(v) The Morning Drink
2 tablespoonfuls of honey with 2 tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and 1 ounce of water is a

beautiful drink in the early morn-ing. This is anti-bilious, and anti-scorbutic. It is useful in spongy
gums, impure blood and skin diseases.
(vi) A Substitute for Sugar and Useful in Burns
Honey is a substitute for sugar in diabetes. Honey and milk is a very good combination. This
supplies much energy and vigour. Honey is useful in burns and scalds. It is a soothing
application. It will prevent the formation of blebs if applied in time.
Re: Yellow wax 1 ounce

Clarified honey 4 ounce
Melt these together with the help of gentle heat and strain. This is a beneficial stimulant
application for indolent and other ulcers. This is admirably adapted for use in hot climates,
where animal fats, the basis of so many ointments soon become ran-cid and unfit for medicinal
use.
61. INDIAN ACALYPHA

(CAT'S CHARM) (See article No. 70 Kuppameni)
English : Indian Acalypha

Hindi : Cuppi, Khokali
Kanarese : Kuppi gida, chilmari, Kuppi
Tamil : Kuppai Meni
Telugu : Kuppi-chettu, Harita Manjiri
Malayalam : Kuppa Mani
Marathi : Khokli
Gujarati : Venehi Kanto
Bengali : Muktajhuri, Muktabarsi
Sanskrit : Aritta Manjarie
(i) Description
The cat is supposed to be very fond of this plant. Hence the name cat's charm. This is known
also by the name "Marjara Mohini". This shrub is commonly found in India. It mostly grows in the
waste or deserted places throughout the plains of India. It is one foot in height.
(ii) Its Properties and Medicinal Purposes
It is an anodyne (pain reliever), anthelmintic (killer of worms in the bowels), cathartic, diuretic
(increases the flow of urine), emetic (causes vomiting), expectorant (liquifies and brings out
sputum easily) and emmenagouge (brings out menstrual fluid). The root, leaves, young shoots
and whole plant are used for medicinal purposes. Especially the leaves are used for medici-nal
purpose. Its flowers are small and of a yellowish colour. The fruit also is small.
(iii) Beneficial in Chronic Bronchitis
Acalypha Indica contains an alkaloid or active principle, acalyphine. It is highly beneficial in

consumption and chronic bronchitis. The fresh juice of the leaves, the decoction of the leaves
and the powder of the leaves may be given internally. Dose of the juice /2 to 1 teaspoonful.
Acalypha acts like senega in its expectorant property. It is particularly useful in the Bronchitis or
cough of children.
(iv) Juice of the Leaves: An Emetic
The juice of the leaves is a good emetic for children. It is quite safe. It is certain in its action. Its
action is speedy too. It acts like Ipecac. It has no depressing action. It brings out the sputum
easily by liquifying it. The dose of the juice for an infant is a teaspoonful.
(v) Powder Useful in Cough
The powder of the dried leaves (weight of 15 jeguirdy seeds, Kundrumani) is useful in cough,
excessive sputum. The powder of the dried leaves expels worms in the bowels in chil-dren. You
can give a decoction or infusion of the leaves and a little garlic.
(vi) Uses of the Juice and the Decoction
The juice of the leaves or decoction 1 to 4 teaspoonfuls will produce good evacuation of the
bowels in children. There will be no exhaustion. All the worms in the bowels and sputum will be
expelled. Cough also will be relieved. The decoction of the leaves is a safe, speedy and sure
laxative and emetic like senega or Ipeacac. It is useful in consumption, croup, asthma and
bronchitis of children. The suppository of bruised leaves relieves constipation of children.
The decoction of the root acts as a purgative. Prepare a decoction of the leaves, add a little salt.
This is useful in constipation.
Make a paste of the leaves. Add a little turmeric also. This is useful as an application in syphilitic
ulcers, stings of poisonous insects, poisonous bites etc.
The juice can be applied to the head for relieving headache. The powder of the dry leaves is
useful in bed sores. The maggots will die.
The juice from fresh leaves is useful in scabies and other skin diseases. The juice is mixed with
lime and onion and ap-plied to rheumatic swollen joints and boils. It is a good, stimulat-ing
application. This can be applied externally around the ears in earache. Take the juice. Add
equal parts of gingelly oil. Boil well. This is a useful liniment for rheumatism.
(vii) Paste of the Leaves
Make a paste of the leaves. Add salt. This is useful in sca-bies or itch.
CHAPTER XX
INDIAN PARSELANE, INDIAN PENNYWORT I & II, ISAFGUL
62. INDIAN PARSELANE
(ARTULACEA OLERACEA)
English : Common Indian Parselane

Hindi : Khursa
Kanarese : Duda Gorai
Tamil : Paruppu Keerai
Telugu : Pappu-Kura
Malayalam : Korichira
Marathi : Bhuigholi
Gujarati : Loni
Bengali : Baraloniya
Sanskrit : Loni
(i) Description
This is a small herbal plant. The leaf, seed and the whole plant are used. This is a mild
astringent, refrigerant, diuretic, demulcent and emollient. This is useful in biliousness, urinary
diseases of the skin, syphilis and mucous dysentery.
(ii) Uses of the Juice and the Paste
The juice of the leaf, one or two tablespoonfuls twice daily, is useful in dysuria or difficulty in
passing urine, burning in the urinary passage, and dysentery.
Apply a paste of this leaf to the forehead. Headache will be relieved.
Boil this leaf and eat. This is useful in diseases of the liver. Boil the leaf with turki dhall or green
dhall and eat. This is a lax-ative. It will remove heat in the body and biliousness.
The paste of the leaf and seed is useful in burns, scalds and skin diseases.
Make a paste of a teaspoonful of the seed and dissolve it in cocoanut water. This is useful in
dysentery, burning in the urine and gonorrhoea.
The stem of this plant is useful in sudamina or summer eruptions in the body, burning in the
hands and feet. Make a paste of the stem and apply.
63. INDIAN PENNYWORT—I
(HYAROCOTYLE ASIATICA)
English : Pennywort
Hindi : Brahma Manduki, Khula-Kudi
Kanarese : Vondelagi
Tamil : Vallarai
Telugu : Bokudu Chettu, Manduka,
Manduka-Brahma, Kuradu
Malayalam : Kudakam
Marathi : Karivana
Gujarati : Karbrahmi
Bengali : Tholkuri or Thankuni
Sanskrit : Brahmi, Mandukaparni
(i) A Very Precious Herb
This is a weed found near the banks of rivers and lakes all over India and in South Africa. This
is a very precious herb. The • whole plant (particularly the leaves) is used for medicinal pur-
pose. The entire plant consists of root, twigs, leaves and seeds. It is an alterative tonic, aperient,
diuretic, stimulant, emmenagogue and local stimulant. That herb which increases the flow of
urine is diuretic. That herb which increases the men-strual flow is an emmenagogue.
(ii) Uses of the Powder

Brahmi in the form of powder is useful in diarrhoea, dysen-tery, fever, hoarseness of voice due
to consumption, elephanti-asis, orchitis, scrofula, leprosy, jaundice, chronic skin diseases, skin
eruptions such as eczema, lupus psoriasis, ski eruptions, syphilis, gonorrhoea, dropsy,
leucorrhoea, nervou debility and seminal weaknesses. Brahmi is a nervine and brain tonic. It
increases memory and bestows long life.
(iii) The Brahmi Drink
A small quantity soaked in water over night and made into a paste with a few almonds, sugar-
candy and milk—this could be taken as a first rate tonic and a cooling beverage, excellent for
health and strength. It tones up the liver and eliminates all kinds of worms in the bowels. It is
specially useful for nervous debility and invigorates and improves the brain.
(iv) The Juice and Powder
The juice and the powdered root are used. The dose of the juice is 2 tolas, powder of the leaves
5 to 10 grains, 3 times daily. Under its medication in the treatment of leprosy the appe-tite
improves. The skin becomes soft. The thick skin is cast off.
It contains resin, gum, sugar, albuminous matter, sulphates, tannin and an oleoginous
substance, vellarin, an ac-tive volatile principle. The leaves are dried in the shade. By drying in
the shade no active principle is lost. The leaves are powdered and kept in well-stoppered bottle.
The powder can be made into an ointment with vaseline or butter. This is useful in eczema,
leprosy, secondary syphillitic ulcers. It can be used as a dusting powder also.
(v) Decoction of the Entire Plant
A decoction of the entire plant is a very useful preparation. Put one ounce in 20 ounces of
water. Boil for 20 minutes. Strain. Dose: 1 to 2 ounces. It is used in ozaena as a snuff.
(vi) The Paste and the Juice
Make a paste of the leaves and apply it to the navel in chil-dren. Dysentery and diarrhoea will be
cured.
Mix one or two teaspoonfuls of the juice with cow's milk. It is useful in the skin diseases and
impure blood of children and syphilis, fever, stomach troubles of adults.
The application of a paste of the leaves is highly useful in elephantiasis, swelling of testicles,
rheumatic swellings, boils, contusion. You can apply the juice of the leaf also in these dis-eases.
Brahmi Ghrita is prepared from fresh Brahmi and pure cow's ghee. It is used as a nervine and
brain tonic.
64. INDIAN PENNYWORT—II
(HYDRO-COTYLE AS IAT ICA)

(i) Pennywort Pills
Re: Indian pennywort leaves 2 drachms

Tulasi leaves (basil) 2 drachms
Pepper 2 drachms
Grind the three well and make into pills of the size of big pea. Dose: One pill to be taken twice
daily, morning and eve-ning. Useful in all sorts of fevers.
(ii) Pennywort Poultice
Grind the leaves and make them into a paste. Useful in el-ephantiasis leg, swelling of testicles,
rheumatic swellings, boils, contusion, etc. The juice of the leaves may be applied in the above
diseases. Four or five drops of the juice may be given thrice daily in the fevers that accompany
the above dis-eases.
(iii) For Diarrhoea of Children
Re: Pennywort leaves 4

Cumin seeds (jeera) 20 grains
Sugar 30 grains
Grind these well. One Dose: Twice daily. Useful in diar-rhoea and dysentery of children. Grind
the leaves and apply the paste to the navel. This is also beneficial in the above diseases of
children.
Vallarai oil and Vallarai Ghee are useful in Kanai (fever with wasting of body) in children.
(iv) Pennywort Co. Pills
Re: Pennywort whole plant

powder 5 parts
Koshtam (costus root) powder 4 parts
Honey 6 parts
Make into pills the size of big pea. Dose: One pill twice daily. Useful in nervous debility caused
by diseases of the lower belly.
(v) Pennywort Decoction
Re: Pennywort whole plant 1 drachm

Myroballan 1 drachm
Adhadota (Vasaka) 1 drachm
Long pepper 1 drachm
Sweet flag 1 drachm
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes; strain. Add honey 2 ounces. Dose: 1 ounce twice daily. Useful in laryngitis
or hoarseness of throat that accompanies consumption.
(vi) Pennywort Leaves Powder
Re: Pennywortleaves (powder) 5 grains

Cow's milk ½ seer
Twice daily. This increases memory power and tones and strengthens the brain. This powder is
useful in leprosy.
Separate the good fresh leaves. Spread them on a mat in the shade. Freely expose them to the
air, but not to the sun. Do not use any heat, as this destroys all its virtues. When the leaves are
thoroughly dried, powder them finely and keep the powder in a well corked or stoppered bottle.
Dose: 3 to 5 grains three times daily.
The powder may also be sprinkled on the ulcers. Poultice made of the fresh leaves bruised into
a paste may be applied. The patient improves very much in all respects in the course of a few
weeks. Discontinue the medicine for a week if there is great itching of the skin over the whole
body. Give a purgative and then continue the medicine. This is also useful in scrofula and
syphillis.
This is highly beneficial in chronic ulcerations of syphilitic and scrofulous origin. It can be used
internally and externally also. But it needs to be steadily persevered in.
(vii) For Leprosy

Pepper 5
Garlic 1 small piece
Grind this well. Once daily. Useful in leprosy, leprotic ul-cers. Give the medicine from 20 to 40
days. The diet should be butter milk and rice.
(viii) Pennywort Co. Decoction

Methi seeds (Fenugreek) 20 grains
Water 10 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes and strain. Dose: 1 ounce twice daily. Useful in fever and abdominal
diseases of children such as di-arrhoea, dysentery, etc.
(ix) Juice and Milk
Re: Juice of the !eaves 1/2 teaspoonful

Liquorice powder 10 grains
Cow milk 8 ounces
Useful in the skin diseases of children, nervous diseases of children, impurities of blood in
children, syphilis, abdominal diseases and fever of grown up persons.
(x) Pennywort Ointment
Re: Juice of the !eaves 1 drachm

Black cumin seeds 1 drachm
Ghee 2 ounces
Mix well. Apply to the boils. Useful in boils caused by im-pure blood or hot blood.
65_ ISAFGUL
The Latin name is Plantago ovate. It is a small seed. Dose: ½ to 2 drachms
(i) The Preparation
This is soaked in water. It becomes a mucilaginous sub-stance. This is mixed with sugar and
drunk_ This is highly useful in irritative conditions in the stomach and intestines. It is very
frequently prescribed in dysentery associated with painful grip-ing. The result is excellent. It is
useful in bacillary and amoebic dysenteries.
(ii) For Dysentery and Diarrhoea
It is soaked in curd and taken in dysentery. It is a demul-cent. It protects the surface of the
stomach and intestine from irritation. It is soothing and sedative (allays irritation and pain).
It is useful in diarrhoea and also in other inflammatory and functional derangements of digestive
organs. The mucilage does not help the growth of bacteria. It forms a coating between the faces
and the gut. It lines the membrane of the bowels.
Tablet Isafgul, 20 grains, is also available.
(iii) A Special Preparation
Isafgul seed powdered (1 drachm) is mixed with Indra Jat (Kurchi seed) 5 grains and taken in
dysentery. This is a very good combination.
It also relieves painful stranguary of acute gonorrhoea. Two teaspoonfuls are given in 8 ounces
of water. It is diuretic, i.e., increases the flow of urine and soothing. It is useful in cysti-tis or
inflammation of the bladder.
Isafgul seed one drachm is mixed with 10 grains of Potas-sium Nitrate or in 10 grains of Cubebs
and is taken in gonor-rhoea. Two or three powders can be taken daily.
CHAPTER XXI
JATAMANJI, KALADANA, KAMELA, KANDANG KATHRI
English Hindi Kanareso Tamil Telugu Malayalam Marathi Gujarati
66. JATAMANJI
(INDIAN SPIKENARD)
English : Valerian root
Hindi : Jatamashi
Kanarese : Jatamavashi
Tamil : Jatamanji
Telugu : Jatamamshi
Malayalam : Jatamanchi
Marathi : Jatamayshi
Gujarati : Jatamasi
Bengali : Jatamansi
Sanskrit : Jatamansi
This is the root of Nardostechys Jatarnanji. This is obtain-able in all bazaars.
(i) The Uses
It is a good stimulant, digestive, carminative, diuretic, ex-pectorant and a good antispasmodic

and nervine tonic for hys-teria, chorea, convulsion and epilepsy. Jatamanji is useful in leprosy,
old fever, internal heat, diarrhoea, diseases of the eye, asthma, dyspnoea or difficulty of
breathing, rheumatism.
(ii) The Two Varieties
There are two varieties, viz., English and country. The English variety is found in Northern Asia,
Northern Kashmir, Burma, Ceylon. The country variety is found in Himalayas, Kashmir, Bhutan.
It has deep root. The root is covered towards its tapering extremity or almost entirely with
coarse, dark hair-like fibres. The odour is peculiar and fragrant, The fresh root is sweet. The two
varieties possess almost the same prop-erties. It is a good substitute for the official valerian. It is
useful in hysterical affections, palpitation of the heart, chorea, flatu-lence, etc.
(iii) Infusion Jatarnanji
Re: Jatamanji bruised 4 drachms

Infuse for 1 hour and strain. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls or 1 ounce three times daily. Useful in
hysteria, nervousness, palpi-tation of heart and convulsion. Tincture of Jatamanji is available in
the Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works, Calcutta. Dose is 1 to 2 drachms. It may be
combined with Camphor, ammonia and potassium bro-mide.
(iv) Epilepsy-Hysteria Mixture
Re: Tr. of Jatamanji 1 drachm

Tr. Valeria 15 minims
Potassium Bromide 10 grains
Spt. Ammonia Aromatics 10 minims
Spt. Camphor 10 minims
Aqua 1 ounces
Mix. 1 ounce twice or thrice daily. Useful in hysteria, epi-lepsy, palpitation, convulsion, etc.
(v) Jatamanji Co. Powder
Re: Jatamanji powder 5 grains

Camphor 2 grains
Cardamom 5 grains
One powder. Dose: One powder twice daily. Useful in hys-teria, epilepsy, palpitation of heart.
The oil is given internally for the above diseases.
(vi) For Grey Hair
Re: Oil of Jatamanji
Apply it to the hair daily. The grey hairs will become black.
67. KALA-DANA
(PHARBITIS SEEDS)
English : Pharbitis seeds

Hindi : Kala-danah
Kanarese : Gouribija
Tamil : Kodi-kankatan-virai, Jiriki virai
Telugu : Kolli-vittulu, Jiriki-vittulu
Marathi : Nil-pushpi, Kala-dana
Gujarati : Kala-dana
Bengali : Nilkalmi
The dried seeds of Ipomoea hedercea, Pharbitis Nil. It is obtainable in all bazaars. This is a
good laxative, purgative and anthelmintic. Dose: 30 to 45 grains in powder. It has the same
action as Jalap. It is useful in chronic constipation and pain in the stomach or bowels. Kala-dana
seeds are black, angular, a quarter of an inch or more in length. It has a sweetish and sub-
sequently acrid taste. It contains powerful resins with action similar to Jalap. It is prescribed in
generalised swelling of the body.
(ii) Purgative Power
Re: Kala-dana seeds powdered 1ounce

Rock salt or cream of tartar 1ounce
Dried ginger powder 1drachms
Rub these well in a mortar and pass the powder through a fine sieve. Dose: For adults, 1 or 1/2
teaspoonful (60 to 90 grains). A good purgative. Small thread-worms will come out.
(iii) Fever Powder
Re: Kala-dana seeds powdered 10 grains

Atis 10 grains
One powder. Dose: One powder twice daily. Useful in fever.
68. KAMELA
(MONKEY FACE TREE)
English : Indian Kamala

Hindi : Kamala
Kanarese : Vasare
Tamil : Kamala
Telugu : Kamela
Malayalam : Kampillam
Marathi : Shendri
Gujarati : Kapilo
Bengali : Kamela
Sanskrit : Kampilla, Kambha
(i) Uses
The powder from the capsules of Mollotus Phillippiensis. It is cathartic, anthelmintic,

aphrodisiac, lithontriptic. It is used as a dye. It is a beautiful red powder. It is useful in tapeworm,
chronic skin disease and ringworm.
(ii) For Tapeworm etc.
Re: Kamela powder 2 drachms
Honey q.s.
Mix. One dose to be taken at bed time. Take one ounce of castor oil in the morning. Repeat
after an interval of a week if the first dose is not successful. The worm is generally expelled in a
lifeless state in the third or fourth stool.
(iii) For Ringworm, etc.

Re: Kamela powder 1 ounces
Gingily oil 8 ounces
Boil. Apply morning and evening. Useful in itch, ringworm,
69. KANDANG KATHRI
(KALYANT) (Solanum Jacquini; Solanum Xanthocarpum)
English : Wild eggs plant

Hindi : Kateli, Bhatkatai
Kanarese : Nella-gula
Tamil : Kandang kathri
Telugu : Nela Mulaka-vakudu
Malayalam : Kantankaththiri
Marathi : Bhuiringani
Gujarati : Patharingami
Bengali : Kantakari
Sanskrit : Kanta-karika, Nideghhika
(i) Uses
This is a small thorny plant, bitterish in taste. We can make a delicious dish out of this
vegetable. It is a beneficial sto-machic. It aids digestion. Its nutritional value is very little. It is
given even to feverish patients. The leaf, flower, unripe fruit, ripe fruit, seed, root and the whole
plant is useful. It is useful in asthma, bronchitis, consumption, fever, dullness of digestive fire,
rheumatism, paralysis, etc. It is an expectorant, diuretic and carminative. The seed is a drastic
purgative.
(ii) Juice Boiled with Mustard Oil
Boil the juice of the leaf with mustard or sessamum oil. This is useful as a local application in
headache, rheumatism and bad smell in arm-pit.
(iii) Juice Boiled with Linseed Oil
Boil the juice of the leaf with linseed oil. This is useful as an application in fissure foot.
(iv) Juice Boiled with Almond Oil
Boil the flower in almond oil. This is beneficial as a local application in piles.
(v) Seeds and the Fruit
Burn the seeds and allow the fume to come in contact with the teeth. Pain in the teeth will
disappear.
Boil the fruit perfectly, churn it and strain the juice. Add one part of oil of Lauki seed (bottle-
gourd) to four parts of juice. Boil. Strain. This is useful in pain in the ear (otitis). Put a few drops
of the oil into the ear and plug it with cotton.
CHAPTER XXII
KUPPAMENI, KURCHI, LAWSONIA ALBA, LEMON-GRASS OIL
70. KUPPAMENI
(i) Description
There are many indigenous drugs which will work won-ders and of which we are quite ignorant.
They possess very many medicinal properties which are astonishing. One of the very
commonest and very useful drug which grows in abun-dance everywhere is Acalypha Indica. It
is a valuable laxative, Lagu Soanam. Its root is catharic (that which causes violent purge).
(ii) Therapeutic Uses
The juice of the fresh leaves is a reliable emetic and this is used in Croop (cough with guru
guru). It can be used as varthi for a free motion to children. The varthi is to be made out of the
leaves, i.e., the leaves are to be turned into a cigarette and to be inserted into the anus of the
child. When the juice is used as Nasyam it relieves insanity_ Mix rock salt (Sendha Namak) with
one teaspoonful of this juice and put it into the nose or ear of the patient. This possesses
hypnotic effect. It cures snake-bite or insect poison. This was for a long time a Yogic secret.
The important thing to note is its effect on scorpion poi-sons. Apply the Juice of the leaves with
Ananthavairava and Seetham surasa (both Ayurvedic preparations) and take three or four fresh
leaves internally. You will have a radical cure.
71. KURCHI
(TELLICHEFRY BARK)
English Tellichefry Bark

Hindi Karva-indarjour
Kanarese Korasingina-gida
Tamil Kudasappalai, bitter Vetpalai
Telugu Chedu-Kodisha
Malayalam Kaipa-kotakappala
Marathi Kuda
Gujarati Indrajavanu
Bengali lndrajab
Sanskrit Kutaja
(I) Description
The bark and seed of Wrightea Anti-dysenterica. This is obtainable in most bazaars This is a
specific for dysentery. The bark is as soft as cotton. It is a stomachic, febrifuge, anthelmintic.
The seed is carminative, tonic, aphrodisiac and littonriptic.
In allopathic system also there is a preparation of Kurchi, viz., Extractum Kurchi Liguidom.
Dose: 180 to 240 minims or drops. Kurchi et Bismuth is another preparation. Dose: 5 to 10
grains.
Kurchi does not produce any nausea or vomiting and so may be given by the mouth. It is non-
toxic and non-cumulative and so may be taken for a long time without interval. It is easily
excreted by the kidneys. When compared with emetine its ac-tion is slow and less powerful. It is
not effective intra-venously and intra-musculary, because it is readily excreted in the urine and
so fails to concentrate sufficiently at the site of infection. If the bowels are acting frequently,
Kurchi may be thrown out and may fail to act. Tablets are often passed out entire with the stools
in the acute stage.
(ii)Kurchi Infusion
Re: Kurchi bark (bruised) 10 ounces

Infuse for 8 hours and strain. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls thrice daily. Useful in chronic dysentery.
Can be used as a gar-gle for relieving toothache.
(iii) Kurchi Powder
Re: Kurchi bark dried powder 2 ounces

Pomegranate bark dried powder 2 ounces
Bael fruit pulp dried powder 2 ounces
Dose: 1 teaspoonful with honey or sugar. Useful in diar-rhoea, dysentery.
Mix the juice of the bark with gingily oil and boil the oil. This is useful in eczema, itch and other
skin diseases as an external application. Apply the bark that is sliced, to painful parts of the
body and bandage. Pain will be relieved.
72. LAWSONIA ALBA
(HENNA SHRUB )
English : Henna-Samphire
Hindi : Mehindi
Kanarese : Gorante
Tamil : Marutonri, Marutani, Aivanam
Telugu : Goranta
Malayalam : Marutoni
Marathi : Mendhi
Gujarati : Mendi
Bengali : Mehedi
Sanskrit : Raktogarba, Kurantaka
(I) The Properties

This is a common Indian shrub that is grown throughout India. The leaves are astringent,
detergent and deodorant. The flower is refrigerant and soporific. The seed is deodorant. The
bark is astringent.
(ii) The Uses
The leaves are used by the ladies for staining the nails and palms. It gives beauty and also
prevents all diseases of the nails. The leaves are useful in burning of the feet, sprain, contu-sion
and rheumatism of the joints.
(iii) The Flowers, Leaves and the Bark
The fresh leaves should be beaten into a paste with vine-gar or lime juice and applied as a
poultice to the soles of the feet. The plain paste without vinegar or lime juice can also be
applied. You can also rub the parts with the bruised leaves. Use strong friction.
Keep the flowers underneath the pillow when you go to sleep. You will get sound sleep. The
heat of the body will disap-pear.
The leaves purify sulphur. The bark is used in turning cop-per into an oxide.
73. LEMON-GRASS OIL
English : True Lemon-grass

Hindi : Gandha-bena-tel
Kanarese : Purvali-hullu-yanne
Tamil : Karpura-pullu-yenney
Telugu : Nimma-gaddi-nunay
Malayalam : Vasanap-pulla-enna
Marathi : Sugandhichaha
Gujarati : Lilli-chaya-tel
Bengali : Gandha-Bena
Sanskrit : Bhustrina
(i) Description
This is the oil obtained by distillation from several species of Andropogon (citratis, etc.). This is
also known as Indian oil of Verbena, although it only resembles Verbena. This is a power-ful
stimulant whether taken internally or applied externally. It is a carminative. It is a good
rubefacient liniment. It is of a pale-sherry colour, transparent. It has a pungent taste. It has a
peculiar fragrant lemon-like odour.
(ii) Uses
It gives speedy relief in obstinate vomiting, vomiting of cholera, flatulent colic and other
spasmodic affections of the bowels. Three to six drops may be given in sugar or in the form of
emulsion.
(iii) Emulsion
Re: Lemon-grass oil 5 drops
Mucilage q.s.
Peppermint water 1 ounce
Useful in flatulent colic and vomiting.
Re: Lemon grass oil 5 drops
Sugar 1 teaspoonful
For vomiting and colic. In cholera it acts as a stimulant and stops vomiting. The dose of 5 or 6
drops may be repeated ev-ery hour or oftener in severe cases.
(iv) A Good Liniment
Re: Lemon-grass oil 6 ounces
Sweet oil 6 ounces
Useful in lumbago, neuralgic pains, sprains, chronic rheu-matism and other painful muscular
affections. Apply this lini-ment with great friction twice daily. In old chronic cases apply the
undiluted oil.
CHAPTER XXIII
LIME FRUIT, LINSEED, LIQUORICE, LONG PEPPER
74. LIME FRUIT
(CITRUS BERGAMIA)
English : Lime Fruit

Hindi : Nimbu
Kanarese : Nimbo-hannu
Tamil : Elurnichchampazham
Telugu : Nimrna, Nimmapandu
Malayalam : Cheru-Naranga
Marathi : Lirnbu
Gujarati : Limbtu
Bengali : Nebu
Sanskrit : Jambira
(i) Uses of the Fruit—I

The fruit is refrigerant i.e. quenches thirst and reduces temperature, and antiscorbutic, i.e., acts
against scurvy by pu-rifying the blood. The leaf is also refrigerant. The skin is rubefacient and
carminative.
(ii) Uses of the Juice—I
The fresh juice of the lime is the best remedy in the treat-ment of scurvy. Three ounces should
be taken twice daily. It is useful in spongy gums. It prevents scurvy. Dilute it with an equal
quantity of water. This is an excellent gargle for scorbutic and other ulcerations of the mouth
and spongy gums.
(iii) Uses of the Fruit—II
The fruit is useful in biliousness, bilious giddiness, nau-sea, vomiting, anorexia or loss of
appetite. excessive thirst, el-ephantiasis, earache, eye-diseases, whitlow. It binds the bowels.
(iv) Uses of the Juice—II
Before going to bed apply the juice to the body. This will af-ford protection from the bites of
mosquitoes. It also relieves the irritation caused by the bites of mosquitoes.
The juice is an antidote for poisoning by croton oilseeds, castor oil seeds, physic nut, the fresh
root of bitter cassava, mandioc or tapioca plant. Give four ounces of the juice diluted with plain
water or conjee. There will be immediate relief to the purging and vomiting. Give a full dose of
castor oil subse-quently.
(v) Lemonade
Re: Lemon fruits peeled and cut into slices 5 fruits
Cool it and strain. Add sugar to taste. This is a very useful refrigerant drink in all sorts of fevers
and diabetes.
75. LINSEED
English : Linseed, Flax Plant

Hindi : Halim, Chansar, Ulsi
Kanarese : Allibija
Tamil : Aliverai
Telugu : Adeli, Adiyalu, Avisa
Malayalam : Alivitta
Marathi : Javas
Gujarati : Alshi
Bengali : Masina
Sanskrit : Chandrasura
The seeds of Linum Usitatissimum.
(i) Uses of the Leaf, the Seed and the Flower
The leaf has stimulant and diuretic properties. The flower has tonic properties. The seed is
alterative, aperient, aphrodi-siac, carminative, demulcent, diuretic, emmenagogue and
galactagogue. The leaf gives strength to the body. It breaks re-tention of urine and helps free
flow of urine. The leaf can be taken along with curd in the form of pachadie.
The flower also gives strength to a weak body. It also can be taken along with curd in the form
of pachadie.
The seed is useful in dyspepsia, mucous dysentery, swell-ing or congestion of liver, flatulence,
hiccough, cough, piles. It increases the semen, removes the internal heat of body, in-creases
the flow of milk in nursing mothers, moves the bowels, helps the free flow of retained urine, and
produces abortion.
(ii) Linseed Oil
Linseed oil (oleum lini) is extracted from linseed. It is a vis-cid yellow fixed oil, commonly called
"drying oil", because it unites with oxygen and becomes resinoid on exposure.
Dose: ½ to 1 fluid ounce. If you soak in water the seeds, they become a viscid mucilaginous,
jelly like mass. This is a good demulcent.
(iii) i) Linseed Tea
Re: Linseed 1 ounce
Water 20 ounces
Boil the seeds in the water for 10 minutes and strain. Add sugar. Dose: 10 ounces twice daily.
Useful in dysentery, cold, cough, cystitis (inflammation of the bladder), hiccough. For hic-cough
give a little infusion frequently.
(iv) Linseed Poultice
Pour 10 ounces of boiling water in a basin. Put Linseed powder into the basin and stir till the
mixture is like thick por-ridge or hulva. Pour the mixture on a piece of lint or cloth. Spread it
nicely with a spatula. Make it y inch thick. Smear the surface with oil. Apply to the chest when it
is hot. This is useful in pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs. Abscesses will burst easily, if
you apply this poultice.
(v) Carron Oil
Re: Lime water 4 ounces

Linseed oil 4 ounces
Rub well. It will form a white emulsion. Useful in burns. Soak a piece of lint or cloth in the
emulsion and apply it to the affected parts.
(vi) Linseed and Sugar
Re: Linseed powder 2 ounces
Sugar 2 ounces
Dose: 1 teaspoonful thrice daily. Useful in dyspepsia, diar-rhoea due to indigestion, mucous
dysentery.
(vii) Linseed Confection
Sugar 4 ounces
Ghee 2 ounces
Mix. Dose: 1 teaspoonful thrice daily. This is a tonic to strengthen a weak body and increases
semen.
(viii) Linseed Lehiam
Milk 8 ounces
Sugar 4 ounces
Boil the linseed in the milk and add the sugar. Dose: 1 tea-spoonful twice daily. Useful in
flatulence, lumbago. This will in-crease the flow of milk in nursing mothers and the flow of
semen in males. Make a paste of linseed powder and apply it to any skin disease caused by
impurities of blood. It will be cured.
76. LIQUORICE
English : Liquorice, Sweetwood

Hindi : Mulatthi
Kanarese : Ati-madhura
Tamil : Ati-Maduram
Telugu : Ati-madhuramu, Yasti-madhukam
Malayalam : Ati-madhuram, Iratti-madhuram
Marathi : Jashtimadh
Gujarati : Jashtimadh
Bengali : Yeshto-madhu
Sanskrit : Yashti-madhukam
(i) Constituents and Preparations
It is the root of glycyrrhizae glabra. It is obtainable in all ba-zaars. The root of Abrus
precatorious (jequirity, Indian of Ja-maica liquorice) is often sold in its place. Liquorice is
emollient, demulcent, expectorant and laxative. It has sweet taste. It is dark-brown. It occurs in
cylindrical pieces and is longitudinally wrinkled. It has a faint odour. It is obtained in India,
Afghani-stan, Persia, South Europe and England. Its chief constituents are glycyrrhizin, an
amorphous glucoside, asparagin, sugar, resin, starch, gum, etc. Dose: 15 to 60 grains.
In allopathic system there are three preparations, viz., Glycirrhiza Extract (Dose 10 to 30
grains); Liquid Extract of Glycirrhiza (Dose 30 to 60 minims or drops); and Compound
Glycirrhiza Powder (Dose 60 to 120 grains). This is useful in piles and constipation. This
contains Senna leaf, liquorice, fen-nel, sublimed sulphur and sugar. Take one or two
teaspoonfuls at bed time.
(ii) Syrup of Liquorice
Re: Liquorice root 3 ounces
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 30 minutes and strain. Add 8 ounces of sugar. Boil till the solution assumes the
consistency of a syrup. Dose: 1 to 4 teaspoonfuls. Useful in cough, bronchitis, etc.
(iii) Liquorice Lozenge
Re: Extract of liquorice 3 grains
Menthol 1/4 grain
Oil of anisi 1m
Gum Arabic q.s
Make one lozenge. Useful in cough, bronchitis, etc.
(iv) Liquorice Pill
Re: Liquorice powder 1 teaspoonful
Black pepper powder 1 teaspoonful
Sugarcandy 1 teaspoonful
Gum Arabic q.s.
Dose: 5 grains for a pill. Useful in cough, bronchitis, etc. Chew a piece of liquorice. Cough will
be relieved.
Liquorice is useful in thirst, hiccough, leucoderma, bilious-ness, jaundice, spermatorrhoea.
(v) Liquorice Extract (Essence)
Soak 8 ounces in 20 ounces of water for 10 hours. Then strain. Again soak the same liquorice in
5 ounces of hot water. Strain. Now add this infusion with the previous one. Then boil down the
infusion to the consistence of an extract.
English Hindi Kanarese Tamil Telugu Malayalam Marathi Gujarati Bengali Sanskrit
77. LONG PEPPER (PIPUL)
English : Dried Catkins

Hindi : Pimpli
Kanarese : Hippili
Tamil : Thippili
Telugu : Pippallu
Malayalam : Tippli
Marathi : Pimpli
Gujarati : Pipara
Bengali : Pipli
Sanskrit : Pippali
The fruit, root and stems of piper longum.
(i) Uses
Long pepper is a stimulant, carminative, alterative and ex-pectorant. This is useful in cough,
gastritis, dyspnoea, dropsy, anorexia, flatulence, headache. fainting, cold in the head and nose,
diarrhoea, fever with shivering, worms in the bowels, pharyngitis, pain in the anus.
(ii) Long Pepper with Myrobalan
Re: Long pepper powder 10 grains
Myrobalan powder (Harad) 10 grains
Honey 1 teaspoonful
One dose. To be taken twice daily. Useful in consumption.
(iii) Cough Powder
Re: Long pepper powder 1 ounce
Black pepper 1 ounce
Liquorice powder 1 ounce
Mix well. Dose: 20 to 60 grains. Useful in cough, bronchi-tis, etc. A good expectorant powder.
(iv) Pipul Infusion
Re: Pipul 1 ounce
Infuse for 2 hours. Dose: 1 tablespoonful with two tea-spoonfuls of honey; thrice daily. Useful in
cough.
(v) A Good Digestive Powder
Re: Pipul 1 drachm
Dried ginger 1 drachm
Rock salt 1 drachm
Asafoetida 30 grains
Caraway (jira) 1 drachm
Black pepper 1 drachm
Ajowan 1 drachm
Dose: Grains 30 or 1-2 teaspoonful after food twice daily.
(vi) Pipul with Honey
Re: Pipul powder 1-2 teaspoonful
Betel leaf juice 1 teaspoonful
Honey 1 teaspoonful
Useful in cough, phlegm, bronchitis, fever.
(vii) Pipul with Milk
Re: Pipul powder 1-2 teaspoonful
Milk 16 ounces
Boil the milk with this powder. Add sugarcandy or sugar. Useful in asthma, cough, rheumatism,
fainting, Sannipath.
(viii) Pipul Confection
Re: Long pepper 2 drachms

Black pepper 2 drachms
Cumin seeds 2 drachms
Cinnamon 2 drachms
Ajwan 2 drachms
Cloves 2 drachms
Cardamom 2 drachms
Gently fry these drugs. Powder them well. Mix. Add equal of sugar. Add 4 ounces of honey. Mix
well. Dose: 1 teaspoonful. thrice daily. Useful in asthma, cough, difficulty of breathing,
bronchitis, fainting, biliousness, anaemia, etc.
CHAPTER XXIV
MALABAR NIGHT SHADE, MANATHAKKALI, MINT MORINGA
78. MALABAR NIGHT SHADE
(PORTULACES QUADRIFIDA)
English : Indian Spinach

Hindi : Poi
Kanarese : Hali Baccheli
Tamil : Pasalai
Telugu : Sannu pappu, Bacchali
Malayalam : Cheru Basali
Marathi : Velbondi
Gujarati : Mava-ki-baji
Bengali : Rukhtopuri
Sanskrit : Laghu Lonika
(i) Description
It is small spreading herb. The leaf and the seed are used. It is a diuretic and stomachic.
(ii) Uses
This is useful in dysuria or difficulty in passing urine, gon-orrhoea, anorexia or loss of appetite,
vomiting and retention of urine. This can be cooked as vegetable and eaten.
79. MANATHAKKALI
(SOLANUM NIGRUM, SOLANUM RUBRUM)
Hindi : Mako
Kanarese : Kakmunchi
Tamil : Manathakkali
Telugu : Kamanchi Chettu
Malayalam : Manithakkali
Gujarati : Piludu
Bengali : Kakmachi
Sanskrit : Kakamachai
This is a small herb that is cultivated easily in all parts of India. There are two varieties; red and
black. (There is no differ-ence in their qualities.) The leaf and the very tiny fruits are useful.
(i) The Uses of the Fruit and Leaf
It is an alterative, diuretic, diaphoretic and expectorant. The fruit is useful in bronchitis and liver
troubles. The leaf is useful in ulcers of the tongue. The dried, salted, 'Vatral' of the fruit is an
excellent article of diet for the invalids and the conva-lescents. The fruit is soaked in sour curd,
salted and dried in the sun. This is 'Vatral' in -Tamil. This is later, whenever re-quired, fried in
ghee and used. The fruit removes constipation and throws out the phlegm. The Vatral or the
decoction of the Vatral is useful in vomiting due to biliousness. It removes an-orexia or disgust
for food and moves the bowels also.
(ii) Juice and Decoction of the Leaf
A tablespoonful of the juice of the leaf three times daily will increase the flow of urine and
removes ascites and dropsy. The decoction is useful in dysuria or difficulty in passing urine.
80. MINT
(MENTHA SATIVA, MENTHA ARVENTIS)
English : Mint, March mint

Hindi : Pudinah
Kanarese : Chetni Maragu
Tamil : Puthina
Telugu : Pudina
Malayalam : Putiyina
Bengali : Pudinah
Sanskrit : Pudina
(i) Varieties of Mint
This is a small plant; its varieties are known as spearmint, pepper mint and mentha viridis.
(ii) Its Uses
It is an astringent, refrigerant, stomachic, diuretic, stimu-lant, carminative and antispasmodic. It

is usually used as 'chut-ney' in loss of appetite, nausea or tendency to vomit. It is useful in
anorexia or loss of appetite and diarrhoea. It improves appe-tite. The whole plant can be dried
and powdered and made use of as tooth-powder.
Bind Mint across your forehead. This will relieve you of headache. A cup of Mint-tea, morning
and evening, improves digestion. It is useful in fever, jaundice, hiccough, stomach ache, pain in
the bowels, headache, vomiting, nausea and loss of appetite. Also useful in dysmenorrhoea or
difficulty in men-struation and the pain in the abdomen caused by this. It gives good sleep and
increases the flow of urine. Mint can also be added to hot milk or tea and drunk.
(iii) Pudina Tel and Its Utilities
Pudina Tel or oil is the oil distilled from the fresh flowering spear mint, mentha viridis or mentha
crispa. Its main active principles are carvone and menthone. It resembles the oil of pepper mint.
This is useful in headache as an external applica-tion. It is taken internally in dyspepsia,
flatulence or wind in the bowels and abdominal pain. The dose is 1 to 3 minims or drops.
Pepper mint water is made out of oil of spear mint 1, water 1500 and distilled to 1000. Dose is 1
to 2 fluid ounces. This is also useful in loss of appetite, colic or pain in the belly, vomiting, wind
in the bowels, etc.
81. MORINGA
(DRUM-STICK TREE)
English : Drum stick, Horse-radish

Hindi : Segva, Sahijna
Kanarese : Nugge-gida
Tamil : Murungai
Telugu : Munaga, Mulaga
Malayalam : Muringa
Marathi : Shegat
Gujarati : Suragavo
Bengali : Sojna
Sanskrit : Sigru
(i) The Root, Flower and the Bark
The fresh root of this tree closely resembles in taste, smell and general appearance the
common Horse-radish tree of Eu-rope. It is an antispasmodic, stimulant, expectorant and di-
uretic. The flower is a tonic. The bark is an emmenagogue and abortifacient. The fresh root has
acrid, vesicant and antilithic properties.
(ii) Murungai Infusion
Re: Fresh Moringa root bruised 1 ounce
Mustard seed bruised 1 ounce
Infuse for 2 hours in a covered vessel and strain. Dose: 1 ounce every three .iours. Useful in
dropsy. This infusion is highly beneficial as a gargle in hoarseness and relaxed sore throat.
(iii) The Leaves and Their Uses
The leaves are used as a curry. It removes excessive heat of the body, invigorates the digestive
fire and increases the ap-petite. The unripe fruit (Murunga Kai) is used in the preparation of
soup (Sambar). It is very tasty and helps removing phlegm.
(iv) Utility of the Flower, Fruit and the Gum
The flower removes biliousness and anorexia or distaste for food, cools the eyes and increases
and strengthens the se-men. The tender fruit is useful in fevers; and the seeds thicken the
semen. The semen will become thick like the gum. The gum of this tree is useful in polyuria or
excessive urine. It thick-ens the semen and gives beauty to the body. The addition of the juice
of the fresh root increases the efficiency of the mus-tard-poultice. The leaves can be made into
a paste or poultice and applied to swellings. The flower enters into the composi-tion of Dhatu
Pusthi Lehia or confection which invigorates the sex-indriya and gives sexual vigour.
CHAPTER XXV
MUDAR, MUSTARD, MYROBALAN, NEEM, NUTMEG
82. MUDAR
(CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA, CALOTROPIS PEROCERA)
English : Gigantic Swallow wort

Hindi : Ak, Akan, Akond or Mudar
Kanarese : Yekkada Gida
Tamil : Erukku
Telugu : Jilledu Chettu
Malayalam : Erukka
Marathi : Ravi-Akda
Gujarati : Akado
Bengali : Akanda
Sanskrit : Arka
(i) Mudar Root-Bark
The root-bark is used in medicine. It should be collected in April and May from plants grown in
sandy soil and dried in open air without exposure to the sun until the milk juice contained in
them becomes so far dried that it ceases to flow on incision being made. The bark is then to be
carefully removed, dried, re-duced to powder and preserved in well corked bottles.
The root-bark is febrifuge, alterative, stimulant, tonic dia-phoretic, emetic, expectorant. It is a

gastro-intestinal tonic; in large doses from 30 to 60 grains for adults, it acts freely as an emetic.
(ii) Mudar Powder
Re: Mudar powder 3 grains

One powder. Dose: One powder three times daily. This is a tonic and an expectorant. This is
useful in leprosy, constitu-tional syphillis, obstinate ulcers and chronic rheumatism; in skin
diseases arising from the abuse of mercury. In these dis-eases the starting dose is 3 grains. It is
gradually increased to 10 grains or more, three times daily.
In dysentery it has been highly spoken of. In severe cases in adults a large dose from 20 to 60
grains may be given at once in the same manner as Ipecacuantia. In ordinary cases smaller
doses are preferable.
(iii) Mudar Leaf
The leaf is anthelminitic, alterative, laxative and stimulant. Warm the leaves gently and apply
them to the boils. They will ripen quickly and burst.
Dip the leaves in hot neem oil and foment the swollen joints gently; the swelling and pain will
subside. Give from 2 to 5 drops of the juice of the leaf in scorpion sting and bites by poi-sonous
snakes.
(iv) Mudar Flower
The flower is an expectorant, stomachic, digestive and tonic.
83. MUSTARD
English : Black Mustard

Hindi : Kalarai
Kanarese : Karisasivey
Tamil : Kadagu
Telugu : Avalu
Malayalam : Kaduka
Marathi : Mahori
Gujarati : Rai
Bengali : Krishnrai
Sanskrit : Sarshapah
(i) The Uses
This is an emetic. A teaspoonful in a glass of warm water can be used as an emetic fora child. A
teaspoonful can be used for an adult.
(ii) Its Utilities in Foot-Bath
Mustard is used for a foot-bath. Place the feet in a bath of hot water to which a tablespoonful of
mustard has been added. This will relieve your cold or nasal catarrh. A foot-bath will re-lieve
bleeding from the nose by taking blood away from the head.
(iii) Mustard Plaster
Mustard plaster is useful in relieving deep pain and severe vomiting. Mix a small quantity of
mustard with a little cold water and make it into a thin paste and spread it on linen, paper or lint.
Cover this with gauze or thick handkerchief before applying it to the skin. Otherwise a blister
may be formed. As soon as there is burning in the skin, remove the plaster, wipe the part, dry
and apply a little ghee, vaseline or oil to the part.
To relieve vomiting apply the mustard plaster over the pit of the stomach.
It is mixed with linseed meal for making poultice. The poul-tice also must be covered with
gauze.
84. MYROBALAN
English : Myrobalan
Hindi : Har, Harra, Pile Harra, Chhoti Har
Kanarese : Anile kayi
Tamil : Kadukkai
Telugu : Karakkaya
Malayalam : Katukkai
Marathi : Hirada
Gujarati : Himaja
Sanskrit : Haritaki
(i) Description, Properties and Uses
Taste: Astringent. This is dried, immature fruit of Terminalia Chebula. There are two varieties,
viz., Chhoti Har (small) and Bari Har (big variety). The small variety is used for medicinal
purposes. The big variety is used for tanning. The hard outer covering of the fruit should be
taken and not the seed. Properties: digestive; increases gastric fire, bestows in-tellectual vigour,
longevity, memory power; nourishes the body; rejuvenates; gives good appetite; invigorates the
bowels; pre-vents old age; removes excessive fat.
Just as mother feeds her children with food of six tastes, and nourishes the body, Myrobalan
drives away diseases of the body and nourishes it. Therefore, Myrobalan is superior to nursing
mothers. Myrobalan is useful in epilepsy, diabetes, insipidus nausea, diseases of the heart,
Grihani or chronic diar-rhoea, eye diseases, asthma, jaundice, leprosy, chronic gastri-tis,
burning in the hands and feet, impotency, ascitis, dropsy of abdomen, enlargement of spleen,
salivation, hiccough, bron-chitis, orchitis, leucoderma, old long-standing fevers, Phthisis,
syphilis, gonorrhoea and fistula. Myrobalan ghee, myrobalan confection, myrobalan essence are
all preparations of myroba-Ian.
Myrobalan is a safe and effective aperient. It is also one of the ingredients of Triphala. It
contains tannic acid, a purgative principle and a vegetable acid. The immature fruit Jangi
Haritaki contains more tannin and is more suitable for diar-rhoea. It has anthelmintic properties.
It expels roundworms. You can take three fruits at a time.
The decoction is used as a gargle. The dried pulpy portion is chewed after meals as a
sialogogue. That which increases the flow of saliva is a sialogogue. For purgative action the
outer pulp of 2 or 3 fruits is ground up with common salt, which improves its taste and is given at
bed time. This will give 2 or 3 painless evacuations in the early morning. The liquid extract is
also frequently used.
Chhoti Har is a good laxative, and an astringent too. It is a good tonic and alterative also. You
can also make a good as-tringent lotion and ointment.
(ii) A Safe and Gentle Laxative
Re: Myrobalan 3 drachms
Senna leaves 3 drachms
Rose petals 2 drachms
Water 4 ounces
Boil for 10 minutes and strain for one dose. This is a safe and gentle laxative.
(iii) Triphala Choorna
Re: Myrobalan (Har)
Amla (Nellikai)
Myrobalan (Bahera) (Thandrikai)
Powder equal parts of these separately, strain and mix. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls at bed time.
(iv) A Good Laxative
Dissolve 2 teaspoonfuls of the above powder in 4 ounces of water at bed time, strain and drink
the solution in the early morning. A good laxative. Myrobalan removes constipation by regular
use. It is an effective cure for indigestion or dyspepsia, pain in the bowels, flatulence or wind in
the stomach and bow-els, palpitation, biliousness, headache, etc. Take one myroba-Ian at night
daily. You will be cured of chronic sores in the mouth and the tongue which trouble you for a
long time.
On account of its astringent properties ulcerated wounds heal quickly if they are covered with a
paste of myrobalan.
Skin diseases with profuse discharge can also be suc-cessfully treated with the paste. The
paste can be made either with water or with oil.
Make a paste of myrobalan and add a little opium. This is highly useful in piles and prolapse of
rectum of anus. Apply it to the anus.
(v) Myrobalan Decoction
Re: Myrobalan 2 fruits (powdered)
Water 10 ounces
Boil for ten minutes strain and cool. Soak a piece of clean cloth or lint in the decoction and apply
it to burns. Repeat this every three hours. This is highly beneficial.
Mix one teaspoonful of Har powdered with one teaspoon-ful of Fennel (Bari Sonf) and sugar.
This is a useful laxative.
Mix well equal parts of Myrobalan powder, rock salt arised and dried ginger. Take 15 grains
twice daily. This is a liver tonic and a digestive too. You can take this either before or after food.
Just as in Chandrayana Vrat morsels of food are taken, take one myrobalan fruit on the first day
of Suklapaksha or the bright fortnight, on the second day two fruits, and increase the number
until full-moon and then reduce the number by one till New-Moon. This is known as Myrobalan
Kalpam, and is highly recommended for health, vigour, rejuvenation and longevity
85. NEEM (MARGOSA)
( AZADIRACHTA INDICA )
English : Neem, Margosa tree

Hindi : Neem
Kanarese : Bevina Mara
Tamil : Vembu, Veppamaram
Telugu : Vepa Chettu
Malayalam : Veppa
Marathi : Kudunimba
Gujarati : Limba
Bengali : Nim
Sanskrit : Nimba
(i) The Properties and the Uses
The leaf is stimulant, anthelmintic and discutient. The flower is a stimulant, stomachic and tonic.
The fruit is antiperiodic and tonic. The seed is anthelmintic. The oil is stim-ii ulant, antiseptic and
insecticide. The bark is antiperiodic, bitter, tonic and astringent. The bark contains a bitter,
neutral resin. The activity of the remedy dwells in this resin.
(ii) Neem Decoction

Re: Neem bark bruised 2 ounces
Cloves 30 grains
Cinnamon 30 grains
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 15 minutes and strain. Dose: 2 ounces. Useful in ague or intermittent fever, loss of
appetite, convalescence after fever, general debility. It is a tonic as well. In Malaria it should be
given every second hour previous to time at which the attack is expected to return. The
decoction should be prepared fresh for use when required, as it gets spoiled in hot weather.
Prepare plain decoction with a large quantity of neem leaves. Boil till the water becomes golden
yellow. This is useful for foot-bath, in swelling ulcers, eczema and for washing un-healthy ulcers,
itch or scabies, leprotic ulcers, etc.
(iii ) Neem Powder
Re: Neem bark powder 30 grains
Cloves powder 3 grains
Mix well. Dose: 1 powder twice daily. This is a tonic in con-valescence after fevers, malaria,
general debility, etc.
(iv) Neem Poultice
Re: Bruised neem leaves 1 ounce
Rice (flour, or wheat) in hot water 1 ounce
Useful in chronic, sluggish ulcers, eczema, etc. This is a stimulant and antiseptic. Spread it on a
piece of lint or clean white cloth and apply to the affected part. It will ripen the ab-scess.
The Neem tree is held in veneration by the Hindus. It is dedicated to the Goddess Mariamma,
the deity which is sup-posed by them to preside over all epidemics, particularly small-pox. The
epidemics themselves are thought to be visitations of this goddess. The leaves are in common
use in honour of God-dess Mariamma, in smallpox cases. The leaves are spread on the bed of
the patient. A bunch of the leaves is fixed above the door as a sign of the presence of the
Goddess in the house. Fans made up of the leaves are used for fanning the patient. The fresh
tender young leaves are given as an internal medi-cine. Many cases have recovered. Five
grains may be given 3 times a day.
It you cannot get fresh leaves use dry leaves and make a decoction or infusion (one teaspoonful
to 20 ounces of water). Give an adult one ounce daily.
In allopathic system there are two official preparations, viz., Infusion Azed dirachtal Indica
(Dose: ;2 ounce) and tinc-ture Azad dirachtal Indica (Dose:1/2 to 1 drachm).
This tree is planted in India in front of dwelling houses in the neighourhood of temples, on the
roads on both sides, as it prevents epidemic fevers. If you have a bunch of leaves in front of
your doors and windows, no mosquito will enter the room.
(v) Neem Leaf
It is applied as a paste in drying pustules of smallpox. It is given internally on the following day
after a purgative is taken. It destroys all intestinal worms. The leaves are made into a fine paste.
A little Ajwan is added. Chew a few leaves daily, Pyor-rhoea will take to its heels. Cobra poison
will not affect you.
(vi) Children's Friend
Re: Tender neem leaves 1 ounces

Garlic 5 grains
Ajwan 20 grains
Sweet neem leaves 1 ounces
Fennel 30 grains
Fry all these with a little ghee. Add a little salt. Dose: 10 grains to be dissolved in a little water.
Useful in intestinal worms, flatulence, constipation, indigestion, phlegm in chest of children. It
will improve their appetite.
(vii) Neem Flower Chutney
Fry the flower with a little ghee. Add a little tamarind, fried red chillies, sweet neern leaves and a
little salt. Make a chutney with a little water. Useful in anorexia or distaste for food vomit-ing or
nausea, sour belching, worms in the bowels, fainting due to biliousness, etc.
(viii) Neem Flower Rasam
Make pepper water or Mysore Rasam with dhall and ghee. Powder neem flower and then add
this to the pepper wa-ter or Mysore Rasam. This is useful in anorexia or distaste for food, bilious
vomiting, sour belching. bilious giddiness, etc.
Fry the flower in ghee. Powder it and add this to the pep-per soup or Milagu Kulambhu.
Dry the unripe fruit of neem. Remove the seed. Powder the pulp. Take 20 grains twice daily.
Useful in intermittent ma-larial fever.
Make a paste of the seed and apply it to the ulcers which contains maggots. Maggots will come
out.
Oil of neem is useful in eczema, herpes, itch or scabies and other skin diseases. Maggots will
come out. Wherever there are maggots or worms use neem oil.
(ix)Neem Bark Decoction

Re: Neem bark bruised 2 ounces
Cardamom 1 teaspoonful
Coriander 2 tablespoonfuls
Water 20 ounces
Boil for half an hour. Dose: 2 ounces. Give this some time before malaria comes. This will
prevent the attack. Even if it co-mes, it will be very mild.
86.Nutmeg
English : Nutmeg
Hindi : Jaephal
Kanarese : Jaji Kayi
Tamil : Jadikayi
Telugu : Jaji kaya
Malayalam : Jatikkaya
Marathi : Jayiphal
Gujarati : Jayiphal
Bengali : Jayphal
Sanskrit : Jati-Phalam
Nutmeg is a stimulant, carminative, narcotic, aromatic, aphrodisiac and tonic. The country
nutmeg is the dried fruit of Myristica Malabarica. It is not so good. Nutmeg is closely allied to
cloves and cinnamon. It may be substituted for them. Nut-meg in large doses is a narcotic.
Therefore, some care is nec-essary in its use.
It is useful in spermatorrhoea, headache, asthma, cough, intestinal colic, flatulence, indigestion,

dull gastric fire. It is taken along with betel. Dose: 5-10 grains.
It enters into the composition of Pulviscreta Aromaticus (aromatic chalk powder), and aromatic
chalk powder with opium, in the allopathic system.
Its chief constituents are a fixed oil and a volatile oil, and amylodextrin.
(ii) Nutmeg Co. Powder
Re: Nutmeg powder 3 grains
Cardamom 5 grains
Cumin (Jira) 5 grains
Make one powder. Dose: One powder twice a day after or before meals. This is a good
digestive and carminative.
Mix oil of nutmeg with gingily oil. This is an excellent appli-cation for indolent ulcers. It cleanses
the surface and produce healthy action. It is a good liniment for chronic rheumatism. It is a
valuable application in toothache; it is useful in diarrhoea and dysentery. Dose: 1 to 3 minims.

Milk 2 ounces
Useful in diarrhoea.
(iii) Pulvis Nutmeg Compound

Camphor 1 grain
Cardamom 5 grains
Cloves powder 5 grains
One powder. To be taken twice daily. Useful in intestinal colic, pain in the stomach, hem icrania
or one-sided headache, menorrhagia (excessive menstruation), intestinal pain, and rheumatic
pains.
CHAPTER XXVI
OPIUM, PAPAYA I & II, PEEPAL TREE, PELLYWORTH ROOT
87. OPIUM
(POPPY)
English : Opium
Hindi : Hafeem
Kanarese : Aphimu
Tamil : Abhin
Telugu : Nallamandu
Malayalam : Apim, Kasha-kasha, Karappa
Marathi : Afim
Gujarati : Afim
Bengali : Afim, Afin
Sanskrit : Ahipehnam
(i) Description
This is the juice obtained by incision from the unripe cap-sules of Papaver Somniferum, the
white poppy and inspissated by spontaneous evaporation. Opium occurs in rounded masses.
Colour is blackish brown. The taste is nauseously bit-ter.
(ii) Properties and Uses
The alkaloids contained in opium are morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine, papaverine and
narceine. Opium is an an-algesic or anodyne. It is the most valuable drug for relieving pain. It is
an antispasmodic, antiphilogistic, disphoretic, di-uretic, expectorant, haemostatic, styptic,
hypnotic, sedative and stimulant. Dose: ½ to 3 grains.
This is useful in diarrhoea, cholera, intestinal colic, renal colic and hepatic colic. It stops
bleeding, when it is adminis-tered internally. It alleviates cough. It relieves pain. It produces
sleep. It is given in diabetes. The amount of sugar in the urine is diminished.
(iii) Allopathic Preparations
In allopathic system there are the following preparations. All contain opium.
Compound Aromatic chalk powder (Pulvis Cretae Aromaticus cum opio). Dose: 10 to 60 grains.
This is useful in diarrhoea and dysentery.
Dover's Powder (Pulvis Ipecacuantia et opia). Dose: 5 to 10 grains. This is useful in dysentery.
This is given at bed time for inducing sleep.
Tr. Opii (Laudanum). Dose: 5 to 30 minims (drops). 15 minims contain one gram of opium.
Tr. Camphor, Co. (Paregoric). Dose: 30 to 60 minims. En-ters into the composition of cough
mixtures.
(iv) Instructions for Uses
Opium should not be given to pregnant women and chil-dren. If opium is administered
judiciously at the proper time and in proper cases, it does much good, but its indiscriminate use
often produces the worst effects.
In dysentery or colitis an enema of 2 ounces of conjee with 30 drops of Tr. Opii gives relief
immediately.
Omum water, or infusion of cloves and catechu may be advantageously combined with Tr. Opii
in the treatment of diar-rhoea and vomiting.
Simple opium liniment is very useful in chronic rheuma-tism, lumbago, spasms, bruises,
enlarged glands, mumps, muscular and neuralgic pains. It can be combined with an equal
quantity of camphor liniment.
Equal parts of Tr. Opii and glycerine or any soothing oil such as oil of sessamum, etc., are
useful in earache.
Gall and opium ointment is beneficial in painful piles. This will stop bleeding also.
Put a piece of cotton dipped in Tr. Opii in the socket of a decayed tooth. This will relieve
toothache. A grain of opium can be put into the hollow of the decayed tooth. Do not swallow the
saliva. In diabetes opium gives most beneficial results.
(v) Compound Opium Powder
Re: Opium powder 1 grain
Dried Ginger powder 2 grains
Camphor powder 1 grain
Make a powder. One powder twice daily. Useful in diar-rhoea, flatulence and intestinal colic.
(vi) Gall and Opium Ointment
Re: Gall 2 drachms

Opium 30 grains
Vaseline 1 ounces
Useful in piles or Haemorrhoids.
(vii) Poppy Heads Fomentation
Poppy-heads, the capsules of Papaver Somniferum are used as a sedative fomentation and
poultice. Bruise the poppy heads and boil in water. Dip a piece of flannel into the hot fluid and
apply locally in painful areas.
88. PAPAYA—I
(CARICA PAPAYA)
English : Papaya
Hindi : Popaiyah, Papita
Kanarese : Pappalam
Tamil : Pappai
Telugu : Boppayai
Malayalam : Pappaye
Marathi : Popai
Gujarati : Papai
Bengali : Papaya, Penpay
This small tree is cultivated in all parts of India. It is a use-ful, small soft-wooded tree, originally
native of Papua New Guinea.
(i) The Fruit and the Milky Fluid
Its green fruit is an edible vegetable and largely used in making Indian curries. Ripe fruit is
sweet and delicious. Both are used in liver diseases and disorders of digestion.
The fruit contains a soft, yellow resin, fat, pectin, sugar, albuminoids, citric, malic and tartaric
acids, dextrin, etc.
Papaya oil is found in its seeds. The leaves contain an al-kaloid called carperine.
The unripe fruit, milk and seeds possess emmenagogue and anthelmintic properties. The fruit is
laxative, tonic and di-uretic.
The papaya milk, the milky fluid that comes out of scratch-ing the surface of the raw papaya fruit
contains an enzyme which can digest starch, mucous membranes and animal pro-teins.
(ii) The Digestive Powder
Papaya milk, is dried at a low temperature and Papain a digestive powder, is obtained. Dose 2
to 10 grains. It is very useful in dyspepsia and liver complaints. It may be rubbed in ringworm
patches. It is highly beneficial in all cases when di-gestion is weak or when the liver is not
functioning properly.
(iii) The Digestive Drink
The fruit should be well crushed and the seeds should be removed. Then cold milk may be
added. Sweeten this with honey or syrup of dates or syrup of jaggery. This is a delicious,
digestive drink.
Cut the fruit into small bits and then boil in a small quantity of water. Filter the essence through
a clean muslin or porus cloth. Add milk and syrup of jaggery. This is also a palatable, di-gestive
drink.
(iv) The Uses of Ripe and Unripe Fruit
The ripe fruit is alterative. It is useful in habitual constipa-tion, dyspepsia or indigestion, bleeding
piles and chronic diar-rhoea.
The green fruit is laxative and diuretic. It can be cooked as a curry. In women, this stimulates
secretion of milk.
Slices of unripe fruit can be rubbed on ringworm patches.
The juice is useful in ulcers of the tongue, and throat.
The fresh milky juice removes roundworms in children. Take 2 tablespoonfuls of fresh juice and
2 teaspoonfuls of honey. Add 2 ounces of boiling water to this. This must be fol-lowed by the
dose of castor oil one ounce. Dose of the juice for adults one teaspoonful, for children half
teaspoonful, and for children under three years 10 to 15 drops.
The juice of the unripe fruit is useful in dysmenorrhoea. It helps the free flow of the menses. If
this is applied locally in the shape of pessary to the os-uteri, it causes abortion. In large doses it
acts as an ecbolic, exciting uterine contraction. The fresh milky juice is useful in scorpion stings
as a local applica-tion.
Take one teaspoonful of the milky juice of unripe fruit and add a teaspoonful of sugar. This is
useful in reducing enlarged spleen.
The dried ripe fruit or salted ripe fruit is useful in enlarge-ment of spleen and liver.
(v) The Utility of the Leaves
The leaves dipped in hot water or warmed over a fire are applied to the painful parts for nervous
pains or neuralgias.
Bruised leaves warmed over a fire can be applied as a poultice in boils, swellings, elephantoid
growths, etc.
89. PAPAYA—II
(CAR I CA PAPAYA)
Papaya fruit is laxative, tonic and diuretic. The unripe fruit, milk of papaya and seeds possess
emmenagogue and anthelmintic properties.
(i) Papaya Juice with Honey
Re: Fresh juice of unripe fruit 1 tablespoonful
Honey 1 tablespoonful

One dose. Take the whole thing as a draught, when it be-comes cool. Useful in round-worm of
the bowels. After two hours give one ounce of castor oil with half a tablespoonful of lime juice if
available. Otherwise give plain castor oil. This must be repeated two days in succession. Half
the dose can be given for a child between 3 and 7 years of age.
Give a tea-spoonful for a child under 3 years of age. If colic follows its use give sugar and water
or sugar and milk freely. Collect the juice by making incision on the unripe fruit. It should be
mixed with honey when it is fresh.
(ii) Papaya Juice with Sugar
Re: Milky juice of unripe fruit 1 teaspoonful
Sugar 1 teaspoonful
Divide into 3 doses. One dose 3 times a day. Useful in en-largement of spleen and liver. For
children give 2 or 3 drops of the juice with sugar. Continue the treatment for 20 days. Give a
nutritious and liberal diet.
A poultice of the pulp of the unripe fruit over the enlarged spleen is also beneficial.
(iii) Papaya Juice with Milk
Re: Juice of the unripe fruit 1 teaspoonful
Milk 8 ounces
Mix. Useful in dyspepsia, gastritis, pain in the stomach.
The juice of the unripe fruit is useful in ulcers in the tongue and throat. It can be applied to the
tongue and throat.
(iv) Papain
Dry the juice of the unripe fruit. You will get a powder. Dry it in the sun. You get Papain. Dose: 2
to 10 grains. Useful in dys-pepsia, pain in the stomach, gastritis or gastric catarrh.
Allopaths prepare Elixir of Papain. It contains Papain, di-lute hydrochlore acid, simple elixir and
glycerine. Dose: 30 to 60 minims or drops. This is given in chronic dyspepsia with acidity. It acts
both in acid and alkaline media.
(v) For Ringworm
Rub slices of unripe fruit on ringworm. Ringworm will dis-appear. It is a simple and efficient
remedy.
Mix a little alum with the juice of unripe fruit and apply it to eczema. Eczema will be cured. Mix
the juice with a little borax and water and apply it to prickly heat on the skin. Prickly heat will
disappear.
(vi) Papaya Leaf Poultice
Crush the leaves_ Warm them. Apply them to swelling and boils. The swelling will be reduced.
Boils will get resolved.
Soak the leaves in hot water and foment the parts where there are swelling and pain. Swelling
and pain will disappear. Show the leaves before the fire and apply them to the swollen and
painful parts. Swelling will subside. Pain will vanish.
Unripe Papaya can be used for making vegetable currie. The skin should be removed. This will
increase the flow of milk in nursing mothers. Papaya fruit is useful in enlargement of spleen and
liver, constipation, piles and pain in the stomach and the bowels.
90. PEEPUL TREE
(FICUS RELIGIOSA)
English : Sacred Fig, Peepul Tree

Hindi : Peepul
Kanarese : Aswatha mara, Pimpala
Tamil : Arasu
Telugu : Ravichettu
Malayalam : Arasu
Marathi : Pimpala
Gujarati : Jari
Bengali : Asud
Sanskrit : Aswattha
(i) Description
This is a big tree that is cultivated throughout India. It is cultivated in temples and in the vicinity
of temples. It is wor-shipped by the Hindus.
(ii) The Uses
The seed is a laxative, refrigerant and astringent. It is use-ful in diseases of semen like
spermatorrhoea, etc., hoarseness of voice and thirst.
The tender leaves increase the semen. They are useful in fevers.
Re: Tender leaves 2 tablespoonfuls

Milk 8 ounces
Boil the leaves in the milk. Add sugar and then eat. Useful in fever, sexual debility and
impotency.
(iii) Powder
Re: Pulverised seeds 2 drachms
Sugar 1 drachm
Useful in constipation, spermatorrhoea, hoarseness of voice, excessive thirst. This is a good

appetiser and increases the digestive fire.
The juice obtained by incising the tree is useful in fissures of the feet.
(iv) Dusting Powder
Re: Powder of the bark 4 ounces
This is useful as a dusting powder for ulcers and wounds. Ulcers, etc., heal up quickly.
(v) Decoction
Re: Powdered bark of fig tree 2 drachms
Powdered bark of Peepul tree 2 drachms
Powdered bark of Baniyan tree 2 drachms
Powdered bark of Jambul tree 2 drachms
Water 20 ounces
Put the powder in a vessel. Add the water. Boil for 15 to 30 minutes. Strain. Useful as a gargle
in ulcers of the tongue and the mouth. This can be used as an injection in gonorrhoea to stop
the discharge.
(vi) Infusion
Re: Powder of the bark 1 teaspoonful
Water 20 ounces
Soak the powder in the water and strain after half an hour. This is useful as a drink in scabies or
itches and other skin-dis-eases. This will cool the body also.
(vii) Ash of the Bark

Re: Burnt bark 1 ounce
Powder it. Put half a teaspoonful in four ounces of cold water. Let it remain for 15 minutes. Then
strain. Useful in hic-cough.
English Hindi Kanarese Tamil Telugu Malayalam Marathi Gujarati Bengali Sanskrit
91. PELLYWORTH ROOT
(ANACYCLUS PYRETHRUM)
English : Pyrethri radix

Hindi : Akar kara
Kanarese : Akkala-kare
Tamil : Akkara-karam
Telugu : Akkara-karam
Malayalam : Akkila-karam
Marathi : Akkal-kara
Gujarati : Akar-karo
Bengali : Akar-kara
Sanskrit : Akara Karaba
The root is of the size of the finger. It is largely cultivated in Bengal and Arabia. If you chew a
small piece of this root, it pro-duces salivation in the mouth. It produces a tingling and burn-ing
sensation in the tongue and the lips. It will relieve dryness of the mouth and tongue. It is a
stimulant, sialogogue and rubefacient.
It is useful in toothache, elongation of the uvula, hoarse-ness of voice, fever with thirst,
Jihwasthambana (when the tongue fails to move), dryness of the mouth in fevers. If you chew a
small piece of this root all the above diseases will be cured. You can gargle the mouth also by
making a decoction of the root. It is useful in rheumatism also.
Put a few grains of the powder in the nose (nasyam). Epi-leptic attacks will subside.
(ii) Compound Pellyworth Powder
Re: Pellitory root powder 5 grains

Cloves powder 1 grain
Saffron powder 2 grains
Sugar 15 grains
Make into one powder. Take one powder twice daily, morning and evening, either before or after
food. Useful in stomach ache, intestine colic, indigestion, loss of appetite and nervous debility.
CHAPTER XXVII
PHYSIC NUT PLANT, PINE APPLE, PLANTAIN, POMEGRANATE
92. PHYSIC-NUT PLANT
(JATORPHA CURCAS)
English : Molucca Bean

Hindi : Jungle-arandi
Kanarese : Bettada-haralu
Tamil : Kattamanaku
Telugu : Pepalam
Malayalam : Katta-vanakka
Marathi : Rana-yerandi
Gujarati : Jungle-arandi
Bengali : Eranda-gach, Bon-bheranda
Sanskrit : Parvata-yeranda
(i) Description and the Properties
This is a common plant which grows in waste places throughout India. This is cultivated also. It
is used as a fence also. It converts iron into lead. It is a galactagogue (that which increases the
flow of milk in nursing mothers), haemostatic (that which stops bleeding) and vermifuge (that
which expels worms from the bowels). The leaves, milk, root and the seeds are used.
(ii) The Utility of Leaves and Milk
The leaves increase the semen. They are useful in ec-zema, skin-diseases, scabies, internal
piles, syphilitic swell-ings, head-ache, ulcers, gonorrhoea, etc.
Gently warm the leaves and apply them to the breasts of nursing mothers. The milk will increase
and flow freely.
The application of the juice of the leaves in diseases of the skin is very useful.
The milk is useful in gonorrhoea, ulcers of the male organ, and toothache. The fresh juice stops
bleeding in wounds and heals them quickly. It coagulates the blood and covers the bleeding
surface with a tenacious layer. A varicose aneurysm situated just above the inner ankle was
cured by the subcuta-neous injection of a drachm of this juice.
(iii) The Uses of the Oil

The oil obtained from the seeds is a cathartic and an emetic. The oil acts in doses of 10 or 12
drops, as a purgative equal in action to one ounce of castor oil. It causes more grip-ing and so it
is rarely used. Its ill-effects are corrected by lime juice.
It is applied externally in chronic pains, rheumatism and skin-diseases. It is mixed with some
bland oils such as sweet oil, mustard oil, etc. (1 part to 2 or 3 parts).
(iv) The Stick and the Root-bark
The bark of the root is made into a paste and applied in rheumatic swelling of joints.
People use the stick of the plant for cleaning the teeth. Toothache is relieved.
93. PINE APPLE
(ANANAS SATIVUS)
English : Pine apple

Hindi : Ananas
Kanarese : Ananasu-hannu
Tamil : Annasipazham
Telugu : Anasa-pandu
Malayalam : Kaitha-chakka
Marathi : Ananas
Gujarati : Ananas
Bengali : Anaras
(i) The Properties of Leaf and Fruit
This is cultivated throughout India. The leaf is a germicide and a purgative. The unripe fruit is a
diaphoretic, digestive, lax-ative and diuretic. The fruit is germicide, diuretic, styptic and
emmenagogue.
(ii) The Uses of the Fruit
The fruit is useful in gonorrhoea, enlargement of spleen, vomiting, biliousness, thirst, headache.
It gives beauty to the body. In enlargement of spleen take one fruit daily.
Re: The juice of the leaf 1 teaspoonful

Sugar 1 teaspoonful
Water 2 tablespoonfuls
Mix. This is useful in hiccough. If you take 2 teaspoonfuls, it will act as a purgative. If the fruit is
taken in a large quantity abortion will take place. Therefore, pregnant women should not take
this fruit in abundance. Warm fruit juice is useful in vomit-ing, dysentery, jaundice and
biliousness.
94. PLANTAIN
( BANANA TREE )
English : Plantain
Hindi : Kela
Kanarese : Bale
Tamil : Vazhai
Telugu : Arati, Kadali
Malayalam : Vazha
Marathi : Kela-jhada
Gujarati : Kela-nu-jhada
Bengali : Kelagachh
Sanskrit : Kadali
(i) Description
The flower, unripe plantain or tender plantain are astrin-gent. The stem is antibilious and diuretic
and lithontriptic. The bark is refrigerant. The fruit is demulcent, laxative and nutritive. The stem
will remove the hair that is stuck up in the intestines.
(ii) The Flower
The flower is useful in piles, spermatorrhoea, gonorrhoea, cough, burning in hands and feet. It
increases the semen. Crush the flower and fry it with a little castor oil and foment the hands and
feet; then apply it to the parts and bandage. The burning will be relieved. Take the juice of the
flower, and pal-myra sugarcandy or ordinary sugarcandy and drink in the early morning. This is
useful in gonorrhoea, menorrhagia or exces-sive menstruation.
(iii) The Fruit
The tender plantain is useful in piles. The tender fruit is use-ful in dysentery, diabetes insipidus
or Bahumutra (excessive urine). Plantain fruit removes leucoderma, biliousness, fainting.
Unripe plantain is useful in bilious vomiting, diarrhoea, ex-cessive salivation, dysentery, cough.
It gives strength and in-creases the blood and the appetite. Plantain is a valuable article of diet.
Dried plantain is useful in scurvy.
(iv) The Leaf

The tender plantain leaf can be applied in burns and scalds. They will heal and dry quickly.
Smear the leaf with gingily oil or castor oil and apply it to the denuded skin or a blister after re-
moving the skin and put on a bandage. It will be cooling and soothing. The blistered surface
heals quickly. It should be changed twice or thrice daily.
The tender leaf can be used as a substitute for oiled silk, oil cloth or gutta-percha tissue in the
dressing of wounds and ul-cers. The leaf should be sufficiently large to cover the whole part.
Evaporation of any subjacent fluid is efficiently prevented.
The leaf can be used as a shade for the eyes in opthalmia and other diseases of the eye. No
manufactured shade is su-perior to this.
(v) Plantain Fruit with Milk
Re: One plantain fruit smashed
Milk 6 ounces
Take this thrice daily. Useful in dysentery, sprue and diar-rhoea.
(vi) Plantain with Tamarind
Re: Plantain fruit one
Tamarind pulp 2 drachms
Salt a little
Mash and mix well. Take twice daily. Useful in diarrhoea and dysentery.
95. POMEGRANATE
(PUNICA GRANATUM)
English : Pomegranate
Hindi : Anar
Kanarese : Dalimba
Tamil : Mathali
Telugu : Danimma
Malayalam : Mathalam
Marathi : Dalimba-jhada
Gujarati : Dadam-nu-jhada
Bengali : Dalim-gash
Sanskrit : Sheekdana
(i) Properties
Pomegranate is astringent and styptic. The rind of the fruit is astringent and stomachic. The
bark of the tree and the root is anthelmintic. Fruit is refrigerant. The seed is astringent,
anthelmintic and toenifuge.
(ii) Pomegranate Decoction
Re: Rind of the fruit (dried) 2 ounces
Cloves bruised 2 drachms
Cinnamon bruised 2 drachms
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 15 minutes and strain. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. Useful in dysentery and diarrhoea.
(iii) Pomegranate and Kurchi Decoction
Re: Rind of the fruit 1 ounces

Kurchi bark 1 ounces
Rind of Mangostin 1 ounces
Pulp of Bael fruit 1 ounces
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 15 minutes and strain. Dose: 1 ounce three times daily. Useful in dysentery.
(iv) Pomegranate Decoction with Alum
Re: Rind of the fruit dried 4 ounces

Water 20 ounces
Boil for 15 minutes and strain. Add one drachm of alum. This is a very useful gargle in relaxed
sore throat. This is also a good astringent injection in vaginal discharges of women
(Ieucorrhoea, etc.)
(v) Root-Bark Decoction
Re: Root-bark of pomegranate sliced 2 ounces
Water 2 pints
Boil down to 1 pint. Dose: 2 ounces in the early morning. Repeat every half hour. This should be
followed by 1 ounce of castor oil.
(vi) The Uses
Useful in tape-worm. The tape-worm will generally be ex-pelled within twelve hours. The flower
is useful in bilious vomit-ing, dysentery, heat in the body, piles, etc. It increases the blood and
gives strength.
The tender fruit is useful in constipation, dysentery and di-arrhoea. The fruit is useful in
vomiting, cough, excessive thirst, biliousness, sterility in women, excessive salivation, hiccough,
fever, burning in chest, giddiness. Pomegranate juice with sugar-candy removes excessive heat
in the body and pro-duces coolness in the body, and gives immense strength to consumptives
and others.
The seeds thicken the semen and remove burning pain and difficulty in passing urine in
gonorrhoea.
CHAPTER XXVIII
PONNANGKANI, PTERCARPUS MARSUPIUM, PULICHAKKERAI
96. PONNANGKANI
(ALTERNANTHERA SESSILES)
Kanarese : Vanagone soppu

Tamil : Ponnangkani
Telugu : Ponnagantikura
Malayalam : Minankanni
Sanskrit : Meenakshi; Mathsyakshi
(i) Description
This is a creeper that is commonly cultivated in India. It can be obtained everywhere. This is a
kalpa-moolikai. There is gold in this herb. He who eats daily this herb has a golden com-plexion.
Hence the name Ponnangkani. "Pon" in Tamil means gold. Pon, Aum, Kan, Nee, i.e., if you eat
this you will see your body as lustrous as gold. This is an alterative and cooling. This is useful in
eye diseases, diseases of cornea, heat of the body and piles.
(ii) Preparations and Uses
Boil this without salt and eat with butter for 40 days. All dis-eases of the eye will be cured. The
juice is useful as an Anupana. It is used in making copper oxide. Take oil bath with the oil
prepared out of this herb. Diseases of the eye will be cured.
It is very beneficial for cough, asthma, fever, piles, gonor-rhoea, syphilis and intestinal worms.
Take one seer juice and y seer of gingily oil. Boil the juice along with oil. When the juice is
absorbed in the oil and the mixture reduced to y seer, then strain. This can be daily rubbed to
the head. It will give eye sight, memory and cool the brain.
Take Ponnangkani juice 2 toles and mix equal part of car-rot juice, add a little salt (Saindhava),
and drink. It is useful in piles.
97. PTERCARPUS MARSUPIUM

(LEGUMINCSAL GUM KINO TREE)
English : Indian Kino

Hindi : Brija sal
Kanarese : Honne
Tamil : Ponne
Telugu : Peddagi
Marathi : Brija sal
Bengali : Pit-sal
Sanskrit : Pitasala
(I) Description
A large handsome deciduous timber tree of the moist de-ciduous forests of India with a round
headed crown and rounded leaves. It is a native of the forest of Madras, Bombay, Madhya
Pradeh and some parts of North India.
The wood is valuable and priced next to Teak in parts of South India including the table land of
Mysore. The bark on chopping exudes a red viscous gummy substance called kino-gum which
has medicinal properties.
The copious yellow and scented flowers appear sometime in July-August. The tree requires a
moderately well drained moist loavy soil, but it sometimes tolerates soil which is not too well
drained provided it is not heavy. It is found on soils from graintes, gnaisses or from deccan
Trap.
Silvicultural characters: A light laying tree. Moderately fast growing. It attains large dimensions,
100 to 120 ft. high and 6 to 8 ft. or over in girth being common. It attains best sizes in moist
situations with rainfall of 50 to 60 inches, but can grow in locali-ties with much less rain, though
in such places it attains only smaller dimensions.
(ii) Uses of the Timber
The timber is used very largely for house building, furni-ture, door and window frames, planking,
occasionally for small dugouts and the like. It works easily, can be seasoned with ease and
though not so long lasting as teak, is just used for var-ious purposes for which teak is used but
is not easily available or is considered too costly.
The timber is hard and closed grained. The heartwood is yellow-brown but unlike Teak with
which this tree is found asso-ciated in many forests the wood of petrocarpus marsupium is not
proof against termite attack. The timber stains yellow when damp.
(iii) Kino from the Bark

The red gum resin which is exuded from wounds in the bark furnishes the KINO of commerce,
which is valuable astrin-gent used in medicine.
(iv) The Leaves
The leaves of the tree make excellent fodder and they are reported to be specially valuable as
manure. The bark is occa-sionally employed for dyeing. It contains a brownish and colouring
matter which dyes tassar silk a raddish fawn colour. Kino gum is also stated to have tanning
properties.
The tree sheds its leaves in April-May and is leafless for a short period, the new leaves appear
in May-June. The fragrant yellow flowers appear from June to September. Seeds are ripe from
December-January to March-April. The pods which are produced abundantly, are 1 inch to 2
inches in diameter flat and the central portion bony.
(v) Germination and growth of the tree
The important factors which help its natural reproduction are loose, clear soil free of weeds.
Natural reproduction may sometime take place in grass areas. Grazing is inimical to natu-ral
reproduction. Fire dangerous. The best course is to protect against fire and grazing and give
overhead freedom to estab-lish regeneration.
Germination can be hastened by soaking the seed in wa-ter or cutting through the ends of the
pod before soaking to ad-mit water readily.
The tree can be grown by direct sowing. Stump planting i.e., pruning root and shoot, is
advantageous. Entire transplant-ing can also be done but this is better done with basket plants.
(vi) A Piece of Wood and the Drink
A piece of this wood cut in cross section half inch by half inch may be dipped in X, seer of cold
water in a glass and not in a metal tumbler, and the water drunk twice a day. The colour of the
water changes into yellow, and the wood piece should not be used when the colour is not given
out by it. It should be soaked on the previous evening and the water taken on the fol-lowing
morning. Again fresh water should be kept for the eve-ning dose. Some people make a cup out
of this wood and drink water from it after allowing the water to remain in the cup for a few
minutes. Many have been cured of Diabetes by this treat-ment.
98. PULICHAKKERAI
(HIBISCUS CANNABINUS)
English Brown Indian Hemp

Hindi Patsan
Kanarese Pinidrike Gida
Tamil Pulicch akkerai
Telugu : Gongura
Malayalam : Pulich-cheera
Marathi : Ambadi
Gujarati : Ambadi
Bengali : Mestapat
Sanskrit : Mechika Phalamla
This is cultivated throughout India. The leaf, flower and seed are used. The leaf is an emolient
and purgative. The seed is an aphrodisiac (Kama Vardhini). The leaf is eaten as a vege-table.
This is useful in cough, rheumatism, paralysis, anorexia or disgust for food, eczema and
swelling. It removes laziness. It gives strength to the body and increases the semen and sexual
vigour.
(ii) Juice of the Flower
The juice of the flower is mixed with black pepper and black sugar, and taken. This is useful in
anorexia or disgust for food and vomiting due to biliousness.
CHAPTER XXIX
RICE, SALT, SANDAL WOOD, SAPOTA, SENNA
99. RICE
English : Rice
Hindi : Chaval
Kanarese : Akki
Tamil : Arisi
Telugu : Biyyam
Malayalam : Ari
Marathi : Tandula
Gujarati : Chokha
Bengali : Chal, Chanvol
Sanskrit : Vrihi
(i) Varieties of Rice and Properties
The varieties of rice are Basmati, Milakusarnbha, Jeerakasambha, Eerkucchamba, Ku

runjcharribha, Pulukuchamba, Koraichamba, Kalanchambha, Marchambha, Kodaichambha,
Kadaichambha, Mallikaichambha, Man chambha, Chenchambha, Kallundaichambha,
Illuppaipoochambha, Kunduchambha, Kundrumanichambha, Valaithadichambha,
Kaivaraichambha, etc. Rice is a nutrient. The conjee or rice-water is demulcent and refrigerant.
(ii) For External Use
(a) Rice Flour

Rice flour can be used as a dusting powder in Measles, small pox, erysipelas, prickly heat and
other inflammatory af-fections of the skin. This is a very cooling and soothing applica-tion. It
allays heat and irritation. It is pleasant to the patient's feelings.
It is an excellent application in burns and scalds. It should be used as soon as possible after the
occurrence of the injury. It should be dusted thickly over the whole of the burnt surface so that
the discharge may be absorbed and air may be excluded.
(b) Rice Poultice
Place the rice flour in a basin and then gradually add boil-ing water; constantly stir the flour. Add
a little sweet oil. Spread smoothly the poultice on a piece of clean cloth or white surgical lint to
the thickness of a quarter of an inch and apply it over the affected parts. Apply the poultice two
or three times daily. This is an excellent application in abscesses, boils, buboes, in-flamed piles
and other local inflammatory affections.
(c) Rice Poultice for Chronic Coughs
Apply a large, soft rice poultice to the chest and back be-tween the shoulder blades, at bed
time. This is highly beneficial in chronic bronchitis and other chronic coughs. Great relief is
obtained. The surface of the poultice may be smeared over with oil of turpentine.
(iii) For Internal Use
(a) Conjee Water
Re: Cleansed rice 1 ounce
Water 40 ounces
Boil for 20 minutes. Strain and flavour with lime juice. Add salt or sugar to taste. This is an
excellent drink in fevers, gonor-rhoea, and in cases where there are pain, burning and difficulty
in passing urine.
(b) Panchamushti Conjee
Take a handful of thuvar-ki-dhall, black gram, Bengal gram, green gram and rice and tie them
separately in a piece of cloth. Place the bundles in a vessel. Pour over them four pints of water.
Boil till it is reduce to one pint. This is a beneficial drink for breaking long fasts. It relieves
exhaustion and gives strength immediately. This can be taken by ordinary persons also. It is
nutritious and gives energy and strength.
(c) Green Gram and Rice Conjee
This is a very healthy drink. It removes biliousness. It is nutritious too.
(d) Milk and Rice Conjee
This removes burning due to biliousness. It increases se-men and sharpens the intellect.
(e) Hot Rice Water
The water or conjee that is removed while rice is boiling is beneficial in removing dysuria or
difficulty and burning in pass-ing urine.
(f) Horse-Gram and Rice Conjee
This increases appetite and the semen, and gives im-mense strength, even for old people.
(g) Milk and Rice
This removes biliousness and excessive thirst. This is very nutritious. This increases semen.
(h) Ghee and Rice
This cools the eyes, increases the appetite and removes biliousness.
(i) Buttermilk and Rice
This increases the digestive fire and removes thirst. This is useful in diarrhoea and dysentery.
(j) Cold Rice Rice
that is soaked in water is taken in the morning with buttermilk or curd. This increases semen,
cools the system and gives a healthy glow to the body. The rice water also may be drunk. It is
very cooling and strengthening.
100. SALT
English : Common Salt

Hindi : Nimak
Kanarese ,Tamil
Telugu , Malayalam : Uppu
Marathi : Chemitrneeth
Gujarati : Mithun
Bengali : Nimok
Sanskrit : Lavanam
: Pitasala
(i) Salt Oil
Put a little salt in mustard oil and expose the oil to the sun. This oil is useful in rheumatism. Rub
the oil to the painful parts with great friction. This oil can be used for cleansing the teeth in
pyorrhoea, spongy gums, bleeding from the gums, carious tooth, etc.
(ii) Salt Gargle
Salt can be used as a gargle in sore throat. Half a tea-spoonful of salt in a tumblerful of warm
water will form a good gargle.
(iii) Salt as an Emetic
It is useful as an emetic in cases of poisoning. If you find a small child has eaten any poisonous
thing, you can give him salt to make him sick and so get rid of the poison. It will take two
teaspoonfuls of salt in a tumblerful of warm water for a child's emetic and two tablespoonfuls for
an adult.
101_ SAN DAL WOOD
English : Sandal Wood

Hindi : Chandan
Kanarese : Gandhada-chekke
Tamil : Chardanam
Telugu : Chandhanapu-chakka,Gandhapu-chakka
Malayalam : Chandana-mutti
Sanskrit : Sri-gandha
(i) Uses
This is grown in abundance in Karnataka State. This is an alterative, diuretic, diaphoretic,

stimulant, disinfectant, astrin-gent. This is cooling.
Red Sandal wood contains a little tannin and is therefore slightly astringent also. It is used as a
colouring agent.
Rub the sandal wood with lemon juice. This paste is useful in itching, Scabies, Herpes, Ring-
worm, Tinea versicolor (Themal in Tamil).
(ii) Sandal Wood Oil (Chandan Tel)
Oleum Santali is distilled from wood of Santali Album. It can be obtained from the bazaar and
chemists. Only a good oil should he used. It is a stimulant and disinfectant of the genito-urinary
tract. It is also an expectorant. Dose: 5 to 15 min-ims or drops.
Re: Sandal wood oil 5 drops
Mucilage q.s.
Water 1 ounce
Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily after food. Useful in gonor-rhoea, gleet, leucorrhoea and cystitis or
inflammation of the bladder and painful and burning urination. The oil is best given in a little
omum water or infusion of ginger.
102. SAPOTA
(ACHRAS SAPOTA)
For Blood Enrichment
This is known as Chikku fruit. It is a sweet, nutritious fruit. It has laxative and diuretic properties.
It enriches the blood qualitatively and quantitatively.
103. SENNA
Tamil : Surattavarai
Sanskrit : Sonnamukki
(i) Description
Leaves of cassia lanceolata and cassia augustifolia. Senna is cultivated in Southern India
(Tinnevelly district). There is the Alexandrian or Egyptian Senna. As the Senna leaves are
obtained from two sources, they are called Tinnevelly Senna and Alexandrian Senna.
(ii) Uses
This is a good laxative. It is a safe and efficient purgative, well adapted for childhood, old age,
for pregnant women and for delicate persons. It is not so well adapted for nursing women, as it
may render the milk purgative and so induce colic on the child. The active principles are
Cathartic and Chrysophanic acids and Emodin.
The leaves are % to 1 inch long, lanceolate, greenish yel-low in colour, unequal at the base,
brittle and with a faint tea-like odour. Dose: 10 to 30 grains. The taste of Senna may be
disguised by sweetening the infusion and adding milk. Then it much resembles ordinary tea.
(iii) Method of Preparation
Re: Senna 1 ounce
Ginger 30 grains
Rose-petals 30 grains
Infuse for one hour, and then strain. Dose: for adult 1 to 2 ounces. Infusion of Senna with
Epsom salt constitutes the "Blackdraught."
(iv) For Children
Re: Senna leaves 1 teaspoonful

Infuse for 10 minutes; strain and add a little sugar.
Confection of Senna, extractum senna liquidium; Infusion Senna concentratum, Mistura Senna
Co., or Blackdraught, Pulvis Glycyrrhiza Co., which is useful as a laxative powder at night in the
patients suffering from piles, and Syrupus Senna are al I official preparations of Senna.
Senna pods, the direct ripe fruits of Senna are also a valu-able laxative. Soak ten pods in cold
water all night, strain and drink in the next morning.
CHAPTER XXX
SESAMUM, SPINACH, SUNDAKAI, SWEET FLAG
104. SESAMUM
(GINGILY OIL PLANT)
English : Sesamurn
Hindi : Til
Kanarese : Ellu
Tamil : Ellu
Telugu : Nuvvulu
Malayalam : Karuella
Marathi : Teel
Gujarati : Tal
Bengali : Kala-til
Sanskrit : Tilam
The plant, Sesamum Indicum is cultivated throughout In-dia and other tropical lands for the sake
of its oil-yielding seeds. There are three kinds of seeds, viz., black, white and red.
(i) Uses of Leaves
The leaves are demulcent and emollient. They are useful in dysentery, in Amenorrhoea
(absence of menstruation) and dysmenorrhoea (difficult menstruation). At the same time give a
warm hip bath which contains a handful of bruised seeds.
Gently warm the leaves and apply them to swellings and boils. They will quickly suppurate and
burst.
Soak a few leaves in 4 ounces of cold water for one hour. Give the infusion (4 ounces) twice
daily. Make fresh infusion. This is useful in dysentery.
(ii) Uses of the Seeds
The seeds possess emmenagogue, stimulant, tonic, di-uretic, lactagogue and laxative
properties. They give a sweet voice for songsters. If the seeds are taken in large quantities they
cause abortion. The powdered seeds in 10 gram doses are beneficial.
Make a paste of the seeds and heat it and apply to boils. The boils will suppurate quickly and
burst.
Sesamum and boiled rice (Ellodhanam) gives great strength. Excess of wind and bile will
disappear.
(iii) Uses of the Oil of Sesamum-1
Oil of sesamum is demulcent, laxative, emollient and nu-trient. This clarifies the intellect, cools
the eyes and bestows strength and vigour. It gives lustre to the eyes and the body. It nourishes
the body well and rejuvenates.
(iv) Uses of the Oil of Sesamum-11
Apply this oil to the body, head and eyes. It removes burn-ing in the head, itching, scabies,
cough, redness of the eyes, watering of the eyes, inability to bear the glare of the sun and other
diseases of the eye. It heals ulcers and wounds. Til or Gingily oil is quite equal to olive oil for
medicinal and pharma-ceutical purposes. It is useful in leprosy. The body must be rubbed with
this oil with great friction.
English Hindi Kanarese Tamil Telugu Marathi Gujarati Bengali
105. SPINACH
English : Spinach
Hindi : Palak
Kanarese : Basalay
Tamil : Pasala Keerai
Telugu : Mattu Bachhale
Marathi : Sag
Gujarati : Palak
Bengali : Palang
(i) Importance of Green Leaves
Green leaves are the very basis of life. They help in the at-tainment of longevity. Nature
compounds all the essentials of life in the green, leafy vegetables. In the green, leafy vegeta-
bles nature carries on her most elaborate, vital alchemy. Spin-ach is put in the first place by the
food experts. It should be used in abundance by every family. It is cheap, too.
(ii) Nutritive and Medicinal Value of Spinach
Spinach is a leafy vegetable. It contains iron in abun-dance, and so it is beneficial for anaemic
patients whose blood is in impoverished condition_ Spinach has nutritive and medici-nal value.
It contains a large quantity of vitamins, calcium, veg-etable-haemoglobin and protein building
amino-acids. It is a protective food. There is a large quantity of alkaline minerals in spinach.
Therefore, it maintains an effective resistance against infection.
Spinach contains a small amount of oxalic acid, a small amount of albuminous matter in the
form of mucin and a large quantity of vitamins A, B and C and salts of potassium. The iron in
spinach is easily assimilated.
Spinach is very easily digested and forms an excellent, cooling, nutritious and demulcent dish. It
should be cooked in a little water. No water should be thrown away after cooking, as it contains
much nutritious properties.
Young, tender sproutus of spinach can be used in raw sal-ads. They can be combined with
tender lettuce leaves. It serves as a good appetizer. A liberal addition of green leafy vegetables
to pulses is very beneficial.
Spinach is a good laxative and demulcent. It minimises tis-sue-waste. It has considerable anti-
beriberi and anti-scorbutic properties. Raw tendrils are highly beneficial. Spinach is useful in
diabetes, anaemia and gout.
(iii) Uses of the Juice
The juice of the leaves can be given to children, mixed with honey or sugar. The juice is useful
in urinary calculi or stones. It dissolves the stone. It has lithontriptic properties. Spinach is useful
in kidney troubles. The juice of the leaves is used as a gargle in sore-throat.
(iv) The Decoction of the Leaves
A decoction or an infusion of the leaves (1 in 10) is useful in fevers. biliary troubles,

inflammation of the lungs and bow-els, dyspnoea and hurried breathing. It acts as a demulcent,
astringent and diuretic in these diseases. The dose is 1 or 2 ounces. Young, growing girls
should eat plenty of spinach, as it provides iron in abundance in an easy assimilable form.
106. SUNDAKAI
(SOLANUM TORVUM, SOLANUM VERBACIFOLIUM)
Tamil : Sundakai
Telugu : Uste-kaya
Malayalam : Chundak-kaya
(i) A Digestive Tonic
It is very much in use in the Tamil districts of Southern In-dia. It is a digestive tonic for the weak
and the anaemic. It is a small, round, green fruit.
(ii) Contains Carbohydrates
It contains a good amount of carbohydrates, proteins, a fair proportion of iron, calcium,

Phosphorus and vitamin A.
(iii) As a Pickle
It is used as a pickle. It is salted and dried, and used in the preparation of soup. The soup is an
appetizer for the convales-cents, dyspeptics, etc. It is an expectorant, germicide and sto-
machic. It is slightly bitter. It is useful in bronchitis with phelgm, worms in the bowels and
rheumatism.
(iv) Uses
The vatral (salted and dried ones) is useful in anorexia or loss of appetite due to biliousness,
worms in the bowels, chronic diarrhoea, and mucus in the anus. It will give you good appetite. It
is useful in phlegm in the chest, diarrhoea, due to in-digestion and piles.
(v) Some Preparations
It is fried in ghee or oil and used as an appetizer along with meals. It takes the place of
vegetables. The Chundakai is soaked in sour curd. Salt is added. Then it is dried up in the sun.
This is calied Vatral or dried, salted pickle in Tamil.
(vi) As Snuff
The powder of the bark of the root is used as a snuff in heaviness of head with cold, hemicrania
or onesided head-ache, coryza, boring pain in the head, fainting and collapse.
107. SWEET FLAG
(ACORUS CALAMUS)
English : Sweet-flag
Hindi : Gora-bach
Kanarese : Baje
Tamil : Vasha mbu
Telugu : Vasa
Malayalam : Vayambhu
Marathi : Vekhand
Gujarati : Godavaj
Bengali : Gora-bach
Sanskrit : Vacha
It is a kind of root, found in India, Burma, North America, Europe. It has a sweet aroma.
Glucoside acorin, a kind of oily essence, is found in this root. It is a stimulant, tonic, stomachic,
germicide, disinfective, anti-periodic, emetic, carminative, nauseant. It is a cheap medicine. It
can be obtained every-where. It is one of the commonest of bazaar medicines. It is about the
thickness of the thumb. Its taste is bitterish, warm and acrid. It should be kept in every domestic
medicine chest.
(ii) Infusion Acorus
Re: Acorus bruised 1 ounce
Infuse for 1 hour and strain. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. Useful in dyspepsia, diarrhoea,
flatulence of stomach and bow-els, debility, intermittent fever, rheumatism, paralysis, itching of
skin, scabies, debilitating fevers, loss of appetite, diarrhoea of children.
(iii) Infusion Acorus and Chiretta
Re: Acorus bruised 1 ounce

Chiretta bruised 1 ounce
Infuse for 1 hour and strain. Dose: 1 ounce thrice daily. For intermittent fevers, convalescence
after intermittent and other fevers, dyspepsia, particularly when attended with much flatu-lence
or wind in the stomach and bowels, loss of appetite and constitutional debility, enlargement of
spleen, asthma, round worms in the bowels.
(iv) Decoction of Acorus
Re: Acorus bruised 2 drachms

Liquorice 2 drachms
Water 10 ounces
Boil for 3/2 hour and strain. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls thrice daily. For cough, fever and colic of
children. Chew a bit of acorus. You will be relieved of hoarseness of voice, cough. People chew
this when there is an epidemic of disease due to infected air.
(v) Acorus Paste
Re: Acorus 2 drachms
Gerua or Kasukkatti 2 drachms
Make into a paste by grinding them with water. For chronic rheumatism of joints. Burn Acorus
and mix the ash with cocoanut oil or castor oil. Apply this to the abdomen. Useful in flatulence
and colic.
(vi) Acorus Co., Decoction
Re: Acorus bruised 2 ounces

Coriander 1 drachm
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 20 minutes, strain and cool. Dose: for adults-1 ounce thrice daily. For a child, one
teaspoonful sweetened with sugar thrice daily. For dysentery, diarrhoea, bronchitis or cough of
children.
(vii) Acorus Co., Digestive Powder
Re: Acorus powdered 1 drachm
Asafoetida 1 grain
Long pepper powdered 30 grains
Black pepper powdered 30 grains
Dried ginger powdered 1 drachm
Rock salt powdered 1 drachm
Atis powder 1 drachm
Mix well. Dose: ½ teaspoonful or 30 grains twice daily. For dyspepsia or indigestion, diarrhoea
flatulence or wind in the stomach and bowels, rheumatism, loss of appetite due to dull gastric
fire.
The aroma of the fresh root drives away fleas and other in-sects. It can be kept in a room where
sick persons live.
CHAPTER XXXI
TAMARIND, THUMBAI, THUTHULAI, TURMERIC, VASAKA
108. TAMARIND
(TAMARINDUS INDICUS)
English : Tamarind
Hindi : Imli
Kanarese : Hunashi-hannu
Tamil : Puli, Puliyam-pazham
Telugu : Chinta-pandu
Malayalam : Puli
Marathi : Chinch
Gujarati : Ambli
Bengali : Tinturi, Tentul, Amli
Sanskrit : Tintrini
It is the pulp of fruit of reddish-brown colour. It has an acid saccharine taste. It is found in India
and Burma. It is a big tree. It is laxative, refrigerant and anti-scorbutic. The tender leaves
possess refrigerant and anti-bilious properties. The flower and tender fruit are both stimulant.
(ii) Tamarind Drink—I
Re: Tamarind fruit pulp 1 ounce
Boling water 1 pint (20 ounces)
Pour over the tamarind pulp which is contained in a ves-sel, the boiling water. Allow it to cool.
Strain. Add sugar to taste. This is a useful drink in fevers and inflammatory affections. This is a
cooling Sherbet. You can add a teaspoonful of cardamom powder. This will give you a good
appetite.
(iii) Tamarind Drink—II
Re: Milk 1 pint
Tamarind pulp 2 tablespoonfuls
Sugar q.s.
Boil the milk. While it is boiling add the tamarind pulp. Strain and sweeten to taste. This is a
cooling and slightly laxa-tive drink. This is useful in fevers and inflammatory conditions.
When you cannot get limes or lemons, use Tamarind pulp in scurvy both as a preventive and as
a curative. It can be taken on board the ship. It can also form a portion of daily rations in jails,
etc.
(iv) A Good Laxative

Dates 1 ounce
Milk 1 pint (20 ounces)
Boil and strain.
(v) Panakam
Black sugar q.s.

Cardamom powder 1 drachm
Camphor 3 grains
Water 1 pint (20 ounces)
Put the tamarind in the water. Macerate and strain. Now add the camphor and cardamom.
This is a cooling drink. It removes the heat of the body. This is useful in loss of appetite. It
removes burning in the eyes and anorexia or distaste for food, and headache.
109. THUMBAI
(LEUCUS ASPERA)
Hindi : Gurna Madupati

Kanarese : Tumba
Tamil : Thumbai
Telugu : Tummi
Malayalam : Thumba
Sanskrit : Dronapushpa
This is a small herbal plant. There is also another variety called Big Thumbai or Elephant
Thumbai. The leaf and the flowers are used. This is a laxative, expectorant, stimulant, and
emmenagogue.
The leaf is useful in cobra-poisoning, headache, cough or bronchitis with phlegm, dullness of
the digestive fire, paralysis, rheumatism, and collapse. The flower is beneficial in excessive
thirst, fever with delir-ium and collapse, and defects in the eye.
Instil a few drops of the juice into the nose in snakebite. Rub the part bitten by the snake with
the juice. Let the patient chew some leaves when he comes to consciousness. The poi-son will
be destroyed.
(ii) Decoction of the flower
A decoction of the flower is useful in catarrh or cold in the nose. Take 20 drops of the juice of
the flower. Add a teaspoon-ful of honey to the juice. This is also useful in catarrh of the nose.
(iii) Other Uses of the Juice of the Flower
Add 10 drops of the juice of the flower with 10 grains of powder of dates. This is useful in all
bowel diseases of children. Give this twice daily.
Instill 2 or 3 drops of the juice of the flower into the nostril. This will cure incurable headaches.
In states of collapse or typhoid state soak the flower in hu-man milk and then squeeze the juice
into the eyes.
Put the flowers in the sesamum oil and boil the oil. Allow it to cool. Apply the oil to the head and
take bath. This is useful in heaviness of head, cold in the nose and head, etc.
110. THUTHULAI
(SOLANUM TRILOBATUM)
Tamil : Thuthulai
Telugu : Mullamusti
Malayalam : Mulkathari
Sanskrit : Alarka
This is a small creeper that is cultivated in South India. The whole plant (Samoolam) is used. It
is a stimulant, expecto-rant and tonic.
(i) Uses of the Leaf and the Flower
The leaf is tasteful when it is eaten. The flower increases the semen and the seminal energy.
The fruit keeps the three humours in harmony. The root and the creeper are useful in bronchitis
and diseases of the respiratory tract.
The leaf is useful in asthma, bronchitis, spermatorrhoea, dyspnoea or difficulty of breathing,

dullness of hearing due to phlegm, itching of body, dullness of digestive fire, boring pain in the
internal body.
The flower is an aphrodisiac. It gives strength to the body and makes it beautiful and attractive.
(ii) Uses of the Unripe and the Ripe Fruit
The unripe fruit is useful in bronchitis, anorexia or disgust for food, constipation and pain in the
heart. The unripe fruit can be made into a vatral (soaked in sour curd, salted and dried). This is
useful in bronchitis.
The ripe fruit is beneficial in cough with phlegm in the chest, cold in the nose and head.
(iii) Preparations from the Leaf
A decoction of the leaves is useful in asthma, bronchitis or cough. The juice of the leaf can be
instilled into ear. It will re-move obstruction in the ear which causes loss of hearing.
The leaf can be made into a chutney and soup. It will throw out phlegm or sputum.
111. TURMERIC
English : Turmeric
Hindi : Heidi
Kanarese : Arisina
Tamil : Manjal
Telugu : Pasupu
Malayalam : Manjal
Marathi : Holede
Guarati : Halad
Bengali : Holodi
Sanskrit : Haridra
(i) The Many Uses of Turmeric
It is the dried root stock of curcuma longa. It has a yellow colour and good aroma. It is used
largely as a colouring agent. It is an aromatic, carminative and brain tonic. It is useful in flatu-
lence or wind in the bowels and dyspepsia. It invigorates the appetite.
Turmeric is used in all vegetables, dhalls, kitchadie (tur-meric, dhall and rice) and soups. It gives
a pleasant aroma and colour. Good colour to food is very pleasing to the eye and tongue and
invigorates the appetite.
In South India ladies apply either fresh or powder of dried turmeric to the body while bathing. It
removes bad smell, itch-ing, eczema and skin diseases, etc. It is a depilatory. It gives a good
shining, golden complexion. It is mixed with salt, oil and wheat flour to make a hot paste for
ripening boils quickly and natural quick bursting.
In catarrh or severe cold in the head, inhalation of the fumes of burning turmeric through the
nostrils acts as a local stimulant or irritant. Congestion or fullness in the head and nose is
relieved. It causes copious discharge of mucus from the nostrils. There is considerable relief
and comfort. It re-moves vomiting, Vatha-pittha-kapha doshas, headache, co-ryza, swelling,
ringworm, too much stinking, perspiration etc. The juice of the fresh turmeric is useful in
contusion, fresh wounds, leech bites. The juice must be applied to the affected parts.
The turmeric powder can be used as a dusting powder in ulcers and wounds, etc. Make a paste
of nim-leaves and tur-meric and apply it to the pustules in small pox. The pustules will heal up
quickly.
(ii) Turmeric Paste
Re: Turmeric one teaspoonful

Adhatoda leaves one handful
Cow's urine q.s.
Make a paste. This is useful in scabies, eczema, itching, skin diseases, etc.
(iii) Turmeric Digestive Powder
Re: Turmeric 10 grains
Cardamom 5 grains
Make one powder. This is digestive and carminative, use-ful in flatulence or wind in the bowels,
and colic. It tones the bowels.
(iv) Turmeric Decoction
Re: Turmeric powder 1 ounce
Water 20 ounces
Mix well. In conjunctivitis or sore-eyes, in catarrhal and purulent opthalmia this decoction is a
very effective lotion for relieving the burning, reducing swelling, removing redness and irritation
of the eyes, pain in the eyes etc. A piece of clean white cloth soaked in it should be kept
constantly over the affected eye. The piece of clean, white cloth can be dipped in the solu-tion
dried in the shade and then used for cleaning the eyes.
(v) Turmeric Ointment
Re: Turmeric 2 drachms

Gall 1 drachm
Ganja leaves 1/2 ounce
Opium 20 grains
Vaseline 2 ounces
Make a paste. (Instead of vaseline you can use olive oil, linseed oil or cocoanut oil.) It is useful
in haemorrhoids or piles.
(vi) Turmeric Poultice
Re: Turmeric one teaspoonful

Boiled rice one or two handfuls
Grind and make a paste. Apply over the boils and ab-scesses. They will ripen quickly and
burst.
112. VASAKA—I
English : Mala bar met

Hindi : Arusa
Kanarese : Adasoge sappu
Tamil : Adatodai
Telugu : Addasaram
Malayalam : Ata-lotakam
Marathi : Adulsa
Gujarati : Adulso
Bengali : Basaka.Baksh
Sanskrit : Vasaka
(i) Constituents of the Herb
The root, flowers, bark and the leaves of Adhatoda Vasaca are used. This is a non-official herb.
This is a well-known Ayurvedic medicine largely used as an expectorant and antispasmodic. It
liquifies the sputum or phlegm which is coughed up more easily. It has a sedative and
bronchodilator effect. It contains an alkaloid (vasicined), an active principle and an essential oil,
which has antiseptic properties.
(ii) Uses
It is an antispasmodic in bronchitis, bronchial spasm, asthma and whooping cough. It is slightly

vaso-dilator, i.e., di-lates or expands the blood vessels or arteries. It is a germicide and diuretic
also. Dose: 20 grains. There are also tablets of 5 grains each; 4 tablets for a dose.
Re: Fresh juice of Adhatoda leaves 4 tablespoonfuls
Honey 4 tablespoonfuls
Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls. Useful in bronchitis, ordinary cough, asthma.
(iii) Adhatoda Decoction
Re: Adhatoda leaves (dried) 2 ounces
Dried ginger ½ teaspoonful
Black pepper ½ teaspoonful
Sugar 1 ounce
Make infusion. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls thrice daily. Useful in bronchitis and asthma.
You can make cigarette out of dried Adhatoda leaves for asthmatics.
Tincture Adhatoda or Tincture Vasaka and Syrup of Vasaka are also useful in asthma,
bronchitis, etc.
113. VASAKA—II
(MALABAR NUT)
(i) Description
This is a small shrub that grows in abundance spontane-ously in all parts of India. The leaves
are 4 to 8 inches in length and 2 or 3 inches in width. The flowers are white. It is an
antispasmodic, expectorant, germicide and diuretic. The Ben-gal Pharmaceutical Works,
Calcutta, prepares a syrup out of it. It is known as syrup of Vasaka.
(ii) Uses of Leaves
The leaves are useful in cough, bronchitis with sputum, asthma, consumption, vomiting,
hiccough, leprosy, piles, rheu-matism, fevers, sannipath, diseases of the stomach and bow-els,
dyspnoea or difficulty in breathing, orchitis or inflammation of the testicles, biliousness, jaundice.
They give sweet voice for singing.
(iii) Juice of the Leaves
Re: Juice of the leaves 20 drops
Water 2 tablespoonfuls
Mix well. One dose. To be taken twice daily. Useful in the above diseases.
Re: Leaves of Vasaka 4 ounces
Water 20 ounces
Boil for 20 minutes. Strain. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls twice daily. Add a teaspoonful of honey for
each dose. Useful in cough, constipation, fever with cough and sputum. Dry the leaves. Make
them into a cigar and smoke. Useful in asthma.
CHAPTER XXXII
VERNONIA SEEDS, WALNUT, WHITE PUMPKIN, WORM-KILLER
114. VERNONIA SEEDS
(VERNONIA ANTHELMINTICA)
English : Purple fleabane

Hindi : Somraj, Bukchi, Kalouji jangli
Kanarese : Kadu-jirigay
Tamil : Kattu-jirakam
Telugu : Adavi jilakarra, Vishakantakalu
Malayalam : Kattu-jiragam
Marathi : Ranacha-jira
Gujarati : Kadvo-jiri
Bengali : Somraj
Sanskrit : Vana Jeerakam
(i) Description
The plant which yields these seeds is common in waste places near villages throughout India.
The dried seeds can be obtained in the bazaars. The taste is nauseous and bitter. The seed is
about the eighth of an inch in length. It is of a dark brown colour. It is covered with whitish
scattered hairs. It is cy-lindrical.
(ii) Uses
It is an anthelmintic, stomachic, tonic, diuretic, antiperiodic and alterative. It exercises a specific

influence on the round worm or ascaries lumbricoides. The round worms are expelled in a dead
condition.
Re: Vernonia seeds (powdered) 2 drachms
Honey q.s.
Make into two boluses. Give one bolus at 5 a.m., another at 6 a.m. Then give a dose of castor
oil (1 or 2 ounces) at 7 a.m.
(iii) Vernonia Paste
Re: Vernonia seeds (powdered) 2 drachms
Lemon juice q.s.
Make into a paste. This destroys lice infesting the body.
115. WALNUT
(JUGLANS REGIA )
English : Walnut
Hindi : Akhrot
Kanarese : Akrodu
Tamil : Akrottu
Telugu : Akrotu
Malayalam : Akrotu
Marathi : Akroda
Bengali : Akhroot
Sanskrit : Akshota
(I) Description
This is a kind of tree which grows spontaneously in the Hi-malayas. It is cultivated in Kashmir,
Tibet and Afghanistan. The leaves, tender fruits and the skin of fruit, bark and seed are used.
(ii) Uses of Leaf, Fruit, Nut and Seed
The leaf is an alterative, astringent and tonic. The tender fruit is a vermifuge. The nut is an
alterative and aphrodisiac. It gives strength.
(iii) Uses of the Skin of the Fruit
The skin of the fruit is an anti-syphilitic and vermifuge. The bark is an astringent, anthelmintic
detergent and actifuge. The seed is a cholagogue and a mild laxative.
116. WHITE PUMPKIN
English : White Pumpkin

Hindi : Petha
Kanarese : Boodi Kumbala
Tamil : Kalyana Pooshanikai
Telugu : Boodidigummadi
Marathi : Kohala
Gujarati : Kohala
Bengali : Kama
Sanskrit : Koozhimanda
This is a diuretic. This is a cooling vegetable. In Northern India people make Petha, a kind of
sweetmeat out of this.
It is useful in dropsy, ascites, diseases of the kidneys and bladder, suppressed urine, dryness of
tongue, constipation, debility, lack of vigour, loss of blood, blocking of the urinary pas-sage by
stone or flesh, diabetes, fever, vomiting of blood, dys-entery, liver diseases, stone in the kidneys
and bladder, sprue and chronic indigestion. It is taken as a vegetable. The juice is given with
glucose.
(ii) The Confection
Koozhmanda Lehia or confection is beneficial in con-sumption. It renders the urine alkaline. It

purifies the blood.
117. WORM-KILLER
(INDIAN BIRTHWORT)
English : Wormkiller
Hindi : Gandan
Kanarese : Sanajali-hullu
Tamil : Adutindapalai
Telugu : Kadapara
Malayalam : Atu-tinta-pala
Marathi : Gandhani
Gujarati : Gudhafee
Sanskrit : Ajaspurisaha
Goats do not touch or eat this. Hence the significant name Adutindapalai. It is a kind of small
shrub.
It is an anthelmintic, emmenagogue, stimulant, tonic, pur-gative, alterative and anti-periodic. It is

useful in black-leprosy, eczema, rheumatism, worms in the bowels. It gives strength and
increases the semen.
(ii) Preparation
Re: Fresh leaves of worm-killer 2 ounces
Infuse for 2 hours and strain. Dose: 2 tablespoonfuls. Use-ful in above diseases,
(iii) Leaves and the Paste of the Root
The dried leaves also can be used. The root is useful in poisoning by venomous serpents. Other
kinds of poison also will be neutralised. Make a paste of the root with a little water. Mix it in 2
ounces of water and then administer, in cases of poi-soning by bites of venomous snakes.
Dose: Weight of 21 ganjas (42 grains).
(iv) Powder
The powder of the root is useful in inducing labour pains. Dissolve the powder in 4 ounces of hot
water. Dose: Weight of 21 ganjas (42 grains).
(v) Oil
Take the juice of the whole plant along with this root. Add equal parts of sesamum oil. Boil, till
the juice evaporates. This is useful as an external application in black leprosy and ec-zema.
Re: Paste of the whole plant 4 ounces

Sesamum oil 20 ounces
Boil and strain. Dose: 1 teaspoonful half an hour after food once daily. To be taken for 40 days.
Useful in the initial stage of leprosy.
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CHAPTER XXXIII
118. LYSOL
It is an antiseptic and disinfectant. It is used as a vaginal douche: y to 1 teaspoonful of pure

lysol added to 2 pints of warm water.
119. D.D.T.
This is a new insecticide. It means Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane. This is useful in destroying

lice and mosqui-toes. It may be used in powder form or as a solution. It is em-ployed to destroy
vermin and insects in houses, ships, aircraft.
120. BRAN
Put a quater of a pound of bran into a saucepan with one and half pint of water. Simmer till
reduced to a pint. Strain when cold. This is a good drink for diabetes. This is also an excellent
remedy for cough and sore throat. Sweeten it with honey or sugar.
121. DILL WATER
Dill is a herb from which a volatile oil is obtained. This is useful in flatulence or wind in the
bowels, colic and stomachic in infants and the aged. Dose: 2 to 4 teaspoonfuls.
Dill water is obtained from the fruit of the Anethum Graveolus. It has an aromatic smell.
Dill, anisi, fennel, caraway and coriander are all identical in action. They are powerful
carminatives. They relieve the gripping of purgatives.
122. GARLIC
It is hot and stimulant. It is useful in coughs, fevers and other debilitating conditions. The juice is
dropped into the ear for earache and temporary deafness. It is useful in atonic dys-- pepsia,
flatulence and colic. It relieves whooping cough. It is a powerful agent in reducing blood
pressure. It is useful in pneu-monia asthma. Dose: 30 drops of juice 3 times daily.
123. HONEY
It can be taken in place of glucose for supplying energy. It is useful in weak heart, palpitation
and wasting diseases. It has a soothing action in cough, cold, sore throat. It is useful in eye
troubles. burns and scalds.
124. SARSAPARILLA
It is a dried, long, slender root. It is popularly known as the Jamaica Sarsaparilla. It is an

antidote for syphilis. It is useful in pimples, face grubs, purfules, blotches, sores, boils, etc. It
helps nature in the all important work of carrying off from the body morbid secretions which
poison the blood. There is the io-dised sarsaparilla also.
There is the sarsaparilla sherbet, a cooling beverage. A decoction is made out of the root and
taken as coffee with milk and sugar in the early morning. Sarsaparilla is a blood purifier.
CHAPTER XXXIV
125. ACETIC ACID
A strong solution of acetic acid is used to destroy warts. Touch the wart lightly with the acid. Do
not allow it to fall on the surrounding skin.
If you want to check profuse perspiration, sponge the pa-tient with water to which acetic acid
has been added in the pro-portion of 2 tablespoonfuls to a quart of water.
126. BELLADONNA PLASTER

This is useful in painful condition of the chest, pain in the region of the heart and other places.
The plaster can remain for some days. You can take bath also. After taking bath foment it with a
flannel piece or white cloth.
127. BORIC LINT
This is lint treated with boric acid. It is a very handy form of dressing. It only requires to be
moistened with hot water before being applied to the wound. It is pink in colour. Place oil paper,
oil silk, or any leaf over it. Put on bandage.
128. CARRON OIL DRESSING
Mix linseed or cocoanut oil and lime water. Rub the solu-tion till it becomes an emulsion. Soak a
piece of clean lint or cloth in the emulsion and apply it to burns and scalds.
129. EUCALYPTUS OIL
It is a powerful deodorant, antiseptic and disinfectant. Ten drops added to a pint of boiling water
will give off a steam that may be inhaled with advantage by sufferers from bronchitis and coryza.
It may be sprinkled about a sick room to purify the air.
It is largely used in the treatment of common cold in the head and influenza. Sprinkle a few
drops in the handkerchief and inhale. It can be applied locally to head in headache.
It is made into an ointment and rubbed into the skin in in-fectious diseases.
1 to 3 drops may be taken internally on a lump of sugar.
Eucalyptol is most suitable if used as a spray for coryza and bronchitis.
130. ABC LINIMENT
ABC Liniment is composed of equal parts of liniments aco-nite, belladonna and chloroform. It is
used for the relief of pain in a variety of conditions including neuritis and rheumatism.
131. TURPENTINE LINIMENT
This is the best embrocation. It contains oil of turpentine, soft soap, camphor and water. Shake
the bottle before use. It is useful in rheumatism of joints, contusion and pain all over the body,
sprain, etc.
CHAPTER XXXV
PATENT OINTMENTS AND OTHER OINTMENTS
132. BURNOL OINTMENT
This is an excellent healing ointment. It is useful in chronic ulcers, wounds, abrasion, burns,
simple suppurating sores. in-fective skin conditions. It is a safe application as an eye oint-ment.
Smear the ointment on a piece of lint or clean cloth and apply in direct contact with sore, wound
or burn. Secure with bandage or adhesive plaster.
133. CIBOSOL OINTMENT
This is useful in scabies, ulcers, boils and wounds. It is an antiseptic.
134. IODEX
It is an useful external application in rheumatism of joints, muscular pain, contusion, pain in the
chest, etc.
135. PENICILLIN OINTMENT
This is an antiseptic and germicide. It is useful in wounds, septic ulcers, etc.
136. TANNAFAX
It is a tannic acid jelly. For burns, scalds and abrasions ap-ply the cream lightly and allow to dry
before covering with ban-dage. Bandaging may be avoided when not required. In all cases
tannafax should be repeatedly applied until the burn has ceased to be moist and red. When
healing is complete, the black coating readily peels off, leaving a clean, healthy surface.
For abrasions: the affected skin should be thoroughly cleansed before applying the medicine.
Tannic acid preparations should not be used for serious burns of the hands or face.
137. CHRYSOPHANIC OINTMENT
Re: Chrysophanic 2 drachms
Soft Vaseline 1 ounce
Useful in ringworm.
138. GALL AND OPIUM OINTMENT
This is useful in piles. It will relieve pain and stop bleeding. Apply the ointment with your left
middle finger to the anus.
139. REDIODIDE OF MERCURY OINTMENT
This is useful in enlargement of spleen and goitre in the neck. Rub the part with the diluted
ointment 1 in 25. Apply a very small quantity. If it smarts apply the ointment on alternate day or
once in three days. If there is slight irritation on the part apply a little ghee or vaseline to the
area.
140. SALICYLIC OINTMENT
Re: Acid salicylic 1 drachm
Soft Vaseline 1 ounce
1 Useful in ringworm.
141. SULPHUR OINTMENT
Take sulphur 1 drachm and soft paraffin 1 ounce. Mix well. For external use. It is useful in
scabies or itch. ringworm and acne.
CHAPTER XXXVI
142. AMYL NITRAS
It lowers the blood pressure. It has a dramatic effect on the heart and blood vessels. It is useful
in angina pectoris and any other condition of violent cardiac embarrassment with pain and
asthma. Amyl nitras capsules contain 1 to 5 minims of amyl nitras. Break the capsule and inhale
the vapour.
143. CHLORODYNE
This is also known by the name Tincture Chloroformiet Morphi Co. Dose: 10 to 30 drops. To be
taken in 1 ounce of wa-ter and repeated in diminished doses every 3 or 4 hours. Useful in
diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, simple cough, influenza, colds, cramp, asthma, colic, etc.
144. EASTON'S SYRUP
The other name is syrup Fern Phosphatis cum Quinina et Strychnine. Dose: y2 to 1 teaspoonful
in 1 ounce of water after food. Each drachm contains /32 of a grain of strychnine. This is largely
used as a tonic. This contains quinine sulphate, strych-nine hydrochloride, iron, phosphoric acid,
syrup glycerin and distilled water. This is taken with much advantage after an at-tack of malaria
to purify and enrich the blood.
Iron preparations should always be taken after food. If they are taken on empty stomach they
will produce irritation of the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels. If there is diarrhoea
they should not be taken. Iron preparations like bis-muth, colour the motions black. Do not be
unnecessarily alarmed at this. Iron produces constipation. Take a dose of ep-som salt
occasionally to contract this.
145. ESSENCE OF GINGER
It is a very good remedy for flatulence or wind in the bow-els because of its carminative
properties. It is a digestive and stomachic. Dose: 5 to 10 drops.
146. ESSENCE OF PEPPERMINT
This possesses carminative properties. It helps the pass-ing of flatus or wind from the bowels. It
is a digestive and sto-machic. Dose: 5 to 30 drops.
147. HUXLEY'S SYRUP
This is a good brain and nervine tonic. It is a blood tonic as well. It improves the quality and
quantity of blood. It contains glycerophosphates of lime, soda, potash, iron, manganese and
strychnine. Dose for adults: one teaspoonful to be taken twice daily in 2 tablespoonfuls of cold
water after food.
148. KURCHI
It is useful in amoebic dysentery. It is an effective amoebicide. It does not produce any of the
toxic effects pro-duced by emetine. The barks and seeds are used. The bark contains an
alkaloid (conesine), which is non-emetic and is therefore capable of oral administration. Dose: 1
to 2 drachms. Tablet of Kurchi bark in 5 grain doses is available.
149. NEURO PHOSPHATE (ESKAY BRAND)
Each dose (2 teaspoonfuls) contains:
Sodium glycerophosphate 2 grains
Calcium glycerophosphate 2 grains
Strychnine glycerophosphate 1/64 grain
Dose: Adults: teaspoonful in water three times daily, pref-erably before meals. Children:
According to age.
This is a very good nervine and brain tonic. It strengthens the memory. It is food for nerves and
brain. It gives refreshing sleep. It augments brain vigour and nerve vigour. It removes nervous
debility.
B.G. Phos is another useful brain and nerve tonic.
150. PARRISH'S CHEMICAL FOOD
The other name is Syrup Fern Phosphatis Co. Dose: y to 2 teaspoonfuls. This is a good iron
tonic for children. Give half or one teaspoonful in 1 ounce of water after food once or twice daily.
151. SANTOGEN
It is an unrivalled tonic food for the nerves, brain and mus-cles. It is invaluable for nervous
diseases, sexual weakness, anaemia, brain and physical exhaustion. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls 3
times a day soon after meals. For children a pinch of sanatogen may be a added to each feed.
Mix 2 teaspoonfuls of sanatogen into a paste with eight teaspoonfuls of cold water. Add
gradually, whilst stirring a suit-able quantity of milk to form a thick fluid. Drink at once. Each
dose should be freshly prepared. It is very palatable with milk. cocoa, chocolate, tea or any table
water. It may be taken with any liquid hot or cold except acid drinks.
152. SAL VOLATILE
Aromatic spirit of ammonia is called Sal Volatile. It is a heart stimulant and also carminative. It is
used in the treatment of fainting, as a restorative. It should be mixed with water be-cause it will
burn the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat and gullet, if taken undiluted or insufficiently
diluted.
153. SYRUP OF FIGS
Dose: 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls for children. For adults: 2 to 4 teaspoonfuls. It is a laxative.
154. SYRUP OF VASAKA
This is useful in cough. Take one or two teaspoonfuls, twice daily in two ounces of water. It is
palatable.
155. TESSOL
This is useful in stomach and intestinal disorders, cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery. It is a powerful
antiseptic. It has carmina-tive properties. It expels poisonous gases. It relieves pain and
removes discomfort. It is an astringent and so it stops diar-rhoea. It stops vomiting, biliousness,
cramp, colic and griping. Dose: 15 to 30 drops in a wine glassful of water.
It is useful in sprue, colitis. It contains the essential oils, viz., oil of juniper, oil of clove, oil of
cajput, etc. In cholera give 30 drops in half a wine-glassful of water every quarter of an hour for
the first 3 hours, then every hour for another three hours. 30 drops 3 times a day for another 2
or 3 days should be followed. After that 30 drops should be taken in water each day until the
patient is perfectly convalescent.
CHAPTER XXXVII
156. ASAFOETDIA
It is the gum resin of a plant growing in Persia and North-ern India. It is a stimulant and
antispasmodic. It is useful in hys-teria, flatulence and nervous affections of women. The dose is
from 5 to 10 grains.
157. AMMON. CARBONATE (SMELLING SALT)
Dose: 5 to 10 grains. Smelling of the salt will remove headache, cold in the nose and head. It
stimulates respiration and acts as an expectorant. An expectorant is a drug that brings out
sputum easily.
Ammonium carbonate is useful in cough, bronchitis, and pneumonia. It is one of the ingredients
of cough mixture.
Inhalation is useful in scorpion sting, insect bites, shock or collapse, fainting, etc.
There is lavender smelling salt also.
158. ALUM
This is an astringent. It stops bleeding when applied lo-cally in the form of saturated solution. 2
grains of alum in one ounce of water is useful in conjunctivitis or eye-sore. In bleed-ing from
piles a piece of cloth saturated with alum should be kept constantly applied externally. This is
useful in the prolapse or descent of anus.
It is used as a lotion in gonorrhoea and leucorrhoea. Dose: 3 grains in one ounce of water.
It is used as a gargle or mouth, wash, for sores in the mouth. Dose: 10 grains in one ounce of
water.
Stir an alum tablet five or six times in a pot of turbid water. Turbidity will be removed.
Burnt alum is used in tooth powder. It stops bleeding. It is useful in spongy gums.
159. ASPIRIN
Dose: 3 to 10 grains. This is a white crystaline powder. This is largely used for the relief of
neuralgic pain. It causes perspiration and acts as a mild antipyretic (that which combats against
fever). It is usually given by mouth in the form of tablet and powder.
It is mixed with equal parts of phenacelin and caffeine. Then it is called APC powder. This is
more effective. Caffeine acts as a corrective in counteracting against the depressing ac-tion of
aspirin.
This is also beneficial in rheumatism, headache and mus-cular pain all over the body. Do not
repeat it very frequently.
Take 5 grains with hot coffee, tea or milk and cover your-self with a blanket in the bed. You will
perspire profusely. The temperature will come down within half an hour.
Codopyrine tablets, Anacin tablets, Veganine tables, Saridon tablets, Cibalgin tables and
Genasprin tablets contain Aspirin.
160. BISMUTH SALICYLATE

It is useful in diarrhoea, dysentery and intestinal colic. Dose: 10 to 30 grains. Bismuth blackens
the faeces. Bismuth is given along with Dower's powder and Salol.
161. BISMUTH CARBONATE
This is a sedative and astringent both internally and exter-nally. It is highly beneficial in gastric
pains with all forms of vom-iting and irritating dyspepsia, in gastric ulcer, diarrhoea, etc. It is
usually combined with soda-bi-carb, magnesia carb, cal carb and opium as a gastric sedative. It
forms a protecting coating on ulcerated surfaces and mucous membrane of the stomach and
intestines. It is used as a soothing dusting powder in wounds.
162. BISMUTH AND STARCH POWDER
It consists of equal part of Bismuth Subnitras and starch. It is a soothing dusting powder in
eczema and other moist, erup-tions, burns and scalds.
163. CALCIUM LACTATE
It is a tonic to the nervous, circulatory and respiratory sys-tems. It is beneficial in all forms of
nervous and cardiac debility. It is the chief constituent of bone and teeth and is used in all dis-
eases of bone in combination with phosphorus and vitamin D.
It is highly useful in all respiratory diseases, asthma, influ-enza, tuberculosis, etc. Dose: 15 to 60
grains.
164. CAMPHOR
Dissolve it in mustard oil. Expose it to the sun. Then it be-comes camphorated oil. This is useful
in sprain, rheumatic pains, etc.
Fill the tooth socket with camphor. The worms will die. This is useful in caries tooth.
165. CATECHU
It is a powerful astringent. It stops bleeding from the gums. It is one of the ingredients of a gum
paste and tooth powder. It is useful in diarrhoea. Dose: 5 to 15 grains.
166. DOVER'S POWDER
This is a powder which produces good sleep. Take 5 to 10 grains at bed time. Do not give this
to a child.
167. EPSOM SALT
The other name is Magnesium Sulphate. Dose: 12 to 4 tea-spoonfuls. This is a saline purgative.
It removes much serum from the blood. It produces watery motions. Dissolve the salt in 4
ounces of warm water and drink in the early morning. After-wards drink a tumblerful of hot
water.
168. GLUCOSE
This is an energy giving food preparation. It maintains good health. It can be used for
sweetening milk, tea, cocoa, lemonade. It is recommended in malnutrition, debility, overstrain
and mental or physical over activity. It is useful in convalescence, anorexia (loss of appetite),
travel sickness. Dose: 2 teaspoonfuls 2 or 3 times daily.
It is an easily assimilated form of sugar. In the digestion of carbohydrate food, glucose is the
final end product. It is benefi-cial in hypoglycaemia when there is insufficient sugar in the blood.
It fills the system with energy in a minute.
169. PULVIS GLYCIRRIHAZA Co.
This is useful in piles. Take one or two teaspoonfuls of the powder at bed time in 4 ounces of
warm water. This is a good laxative. It contains senna, liquorice root, fennel fruit and subli-
mated sulphur.
170. MAGNESIUM CITRATE
This is a mild aperient. It is composed of bicarbonate of soda, epsom salt, tartaric acid, citric
acid and sugar.
171. RHUBARB
It is a purgative drug obtained from the root of the rhubarb plant. It is also astringent and
stomachic. It is largely used as a purgative in the treatment of digestive disorders of young chil-
dren, especially when these are due to irritating food.
It is administered in the form of Pulvis Rhei Co. (Gregory's powder) and Pilule Rhei Co., which
contains aloes, pepper-mint, etc.
172. SANTONIN
This is useful in round worms. Take the powder at night. Mix it with a little sugar. Take a dose of
castor oil in the morning. Dose: 1 to 3 grains.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
173. ACRIFLAVINE
This is a product of coal tar. It is used in a 1-1000 solution. It is a powerful antiseptic. It does not
harm the tissues. It may be universally used in the treatment of wounds. It stains the tis-sues
yellow.
174. BORAX
It is alkaline. Ii is used as a gargle or mouth wash in sore throats and ulcers in the mouth. It is
mixed with glycerine or honey. It cleanses and heals wounds and sore throats. It is use-ful as a
tooth powder.
It dissolves the mucous and makes the mouth feel fresh and clean. It is mixed with glycerine for
cleaning dry dirty mouth.
It makes an emollient, soothing bath combined with glyc-erine, in the treatment of certain skin
diseases.
175. BORIC ACID
It is an antiseptic. It is used as an eye lotion in 10 grains per ounce solution. Use distilled or
clean water.
A solution of boric acid is used in leucorrhoea and gonor-rhoea for injection.
It is used as a dusting powder in ulcers.
Internally in doses of 5 to 15 grains it renders the urine acid. It disinfects the urine in
gonorrhoea. It is an urinary anti-septic. It is used in solution for washing out the bladder.
Boric ointment is a healing and antiseptic ointment for ul-cers and wounds. Boric acid 10
percent in white paraffin oint-ment or soft vaseline, white or yellow.
Boric acid is used to preserve milk, butter and animal food.
Glycerinum Boracis is used for cleansing the mouth when affected by sores. A four per cent
solution of boric acid is used as an antisep-tic wash in foetid perspiration of the feet.
Boric lint is used for giving fomentation.
176. COPPER SULPHATE
This is useful in trachoma or granular lids. Touch gently the granular lids. This is also useful in
scorpion sting. Rub cop-per sulphate and salt in a stone with a little water. Apply the thick paste
on the spot.
177. POT. PERMANGANATE
This is a deodorant. In the form of crystals it is applied in snake bite. The site should be
sacrificed before the medicine is applied. It is used as a diluted solution 1 in 1000 for douching
in leucorrhoea, ozoena (chronic discharge of pus from the nose). It is used as a gargle in
pyorrhoea. Rinse the mouth with a weak solution as soon as you finish your food. This will keep
the mouth clean and prevent the development of pyorrhoea.
178. PICRIC ACID
It is an antiseptic. It is used in a one per cent solution for dressing burns.
179. PROTARGOL
This is useful in opthalmia or conjunctivitis. y2 to 1 per cent solution is generally used. It is

useful in gonorrhoea as an injec-tion. Keep the solution in a blue bottle or amber-coloured bot-
tle.
180. TANNIC ACID
It is an astringent, styptic, haemostatic, coagulant and vaso-constrictor.
It is useful as a gargle for the mouth, as a wash for vagina, urethra and rectum in one per cent
solution, as a protective lo-tion in burns 2 to 5 per cent solution.
It is used as a throat paint with glycerine.
181. ZINC OXIDE
It is used as a dusting powder usually mixed with starch and boric acid. Zinc ointment is useful
in eczema, skin dis-eases and abrasions.
CHAPTER XXXIX
PRESCRIPTIONS
182. BABCHI
It has been largely used for patches of leucoderma.
Re: Babchi seeds 1 drachm
Hartal Red (arsenic sulphide) 1 drachm
Make them into a fine powder and then into a smooth paste with cow's urine. Apply the paste on
the patch. In a few days the colour will begin to change and spots with normal col-our will begin
to appear. Soon the patch is healed. You can use Babchi oil along with Harital.
183. BORO-ZINC-ALUM EYE LOTION
Re: Acid Boric 10 grains
Zinc sulphate 2 grains
Alum 2 grains
Distilled water 1 ounce
184. DUSTING POWDER
Re: Acid boric 8 ounces
Zinc oxide 8 ounces
Talc. Powder 1 lb.
Useful for ulcers and wounds.
185. GUM PASTE
Re: Tr. Catechu 1 teaspoonful

Tr. Myrrh 1 teaspoonful
Tannic acid glycerine 1 ounce
186. GOLDEN OINTMENT FOR EYES
Re: Yellow mercury oxide 16 grains
Soft Yellow Vaseline 1600 grains
Useful in eye diseases.
187. MANDAL'S PIGMENT
Re: Pure iodine 6 grains
Pot. Iodide 20 grains
Glycerine 1 ounce
This is a useful throat paint.
188. STOMACH POWDER
Re: Bismuth Carb 1 ounce

Soda-bi-carb 2 ounces
Calc. carb 3 ounces
Mag. carb 4 ounces
Useful for stomach troubles.
189. TOOTH POWDER
Re: Camphor 60 grains

Alum burnt 2 ounces
Thymol 30 grains
Acid carbonate 10 minims
Chalk powder 1 lb.
CHAPTER XL
190. BLACK DRAUGHT
This is also known by the names Mistura Senna Co., and Compound Senna Mixture. This is a
good purgative.
Put into a jug one ounce of epsom salt, a teaspoonful of ground ginger, a quarter of senna
leaves and half an ounce of liquorice. Add half a pint of boiling water. Stir well and allow it to
cool. Strain and use. Dose: 1 to 3 tablespoonfuls to be taken as the first thing in the morning.
191. CASCARA SAGRADA
This is obtained from bark of a special tree. It is a laxative. It is valuable in chronic constipation.
It is prepared as Extract of Cascara, 2 to 5 grains; Liquid Extract of Cascara, v; drachm; and
Cascara Evacuation, y to 1 drachm.
192. CASTOR OIL
This is a harmless purgative. It removes irritant matters from the bowels. Dose: 1 or 2 ounces
for an adult. For children 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls. This can be taken with peppermint water, hot
coffee or tea.
193. CONFECTION OF SULPHUR
This is very useful in piles. Take one or two teaspoonfuls at bed time.
194. GLYCERINE SUPPOSITORY
This is useful in the constipation of children. Introduce a suppository into the anus. It will
produce a nice motion immedi-ately. A thin piece of soap can be made into a suppository and
introduced into the anus. This is commonsense treatment.
195. LIQUID PARAFFIN
This is a good laxative. It acts by softening the faecal mass. Dose: % to one fluid ounce.
196. MYROBALAN
It is a safe and effective aperient. It is useful in dyspepsia, biliousness, flatulence, pain in the
bowels. Chronic sores in the mouth and the tongue are cured by regularly taking myrobalan
every night. It expels round worms also. The hard outer cover-ing of the fruit should be taken
and not the seed. A paste of my-robalan is useful in piles and prolapse of anus. Dose: 3 to 4
drachms or as many fruits.
197. SENNA LEAVES

It is a safe and efficient purgative, well adapted for chil-dren, for old persons, pregnant women
and for delicate per-sons. But it is not so well adapted for nursing women as it renders the milk
purgative and so causes colic in the child. The taste of Senna may be disguised by sweetening
the infusion and adding milk when it much resembles ordinary tea.
Infusion of Senna is made by steeping one ounce of Senna and 30 grains of ginger in 10
ounces of boiling water for one hour and then straining. The dose for an adult is from 1 to 2
ounces.
CHAPTER XLI
198. ATEBRIN
This is quinine substitute of chemical origin and is very useful in malaria for destroying the
segmentary parasites. It can be given in pregnancy. It is more effective in malignant than in
benign tertian malaria. It should be given after food, 3 times daily for 5 or 6 days as a complete
course in malaria. It may give yellow coloration to the skin which passes off soon. It is not toxic.
Dose: 1 or 1) grains.
199. BLUD'S PILL
It contains a good deal of iron. It is useful in the treatment of anaemia, chlorosis and
amenorrhoea, absence of menstrua-tion etc.
200. BREWER'S YEAST
Young people who suffer from boils and other eruptions will benefit by taking yeast. It is a blood
purifier. The dose is from a teaspoonful to a dessertspoonful in a little water after meals. It is
useful in neuralgia, neuritis, beriberi, etc. It contains Vitamin B. Tablets are also available.
201. CIBALGIN
A combination of amidopyrine and dial (diallylbarbituric acid) with a synergetic action. One tablet
or 1 c. cm. solution contains 0.22 g. amidopyrine and 0.03 g. dial.
Indications: Pains of all kinds, e.g., headache, neuralgia, migraine, toothache, earache. In
surgery, for wounds, fractures and post-operative pains; prophylactically before operations. In
gynaecology, for dysmenorrhoea and its accompanying ner-vous disorders, post-partum and
post-abortum pains. In dysentry, following extractions or operations and prophylactically before
drilling or filling. Available in Tablets and Am-poules.
202. CIBAZOL
(POWERFUL CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENT)

Indications: Pneumonia, gonorrhoea, meningitis, staphy-lococcal and streptococcal infections,
coli infections of the uri-nary passages, bacillary dysentery, plague, small-pox, etc. Available in
Tablets, Ampoules, Powder and Ointment
203. CORAMINE
Cardiac and respiratory stimulant having pronounced stimulating action on the vaso-motor and
on the peripheral vas-cular system; it stimulates the myocardium, reinforces its con-tractions,
leads to an increased depth of breathing and raises the pathologically decreased blood-
pressure.
Indications: Circulatory and respiratory crisis (pneumonia, influenza, typhoid fever, diphtheria,
etc.). Collapse, shock, cor-onary sclerosis, diabetic comauremic coma. Bronchitis, bron-chial
asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, etc. Available in Liquid,
Ampoules and Tablets
204. CATHARTIC CO. TABLET B.W. & CO.
This is a good night pill to produce good motion. Take one or two tablets at bed time. Cathartic
vegetable tablet is much useful medicine.
205. ENTERO-VIOFORM
This is a specific remedy for the treatment of acute and chronic amoebic dysentery. Dose: 1 or 2
tablets three times a day after the principal meals. After an interval of 8 days, the treatment is
resumed for another 10 days.
In bacillary dysentery one tablet can be taken 3 times daily. This dose can be increased when
necessary to 6 tablets a day.
Intestinal antiseptic and a specific therapeutic agent for the treatment of acute and chronic
amoebic dysentery and other infections and parasitic intestinal diseases. Indications: Amboebic
dysentery, colitis, summer diar-rhoea and other intestinal affections.
Tubes of 20 and bottles of 100 tablets.
206. MULTIVITE PELLET
Each pellet contains:

Vitamin A 3000 International Units
Vitamin B1 200 International Units
Vitamin C 12.5 Milligrams
Vitamin D 600 International Units
Vitamins are life giving substances of the body. They are like electric sparks. Multivite pellets
keep the body in a sound, healthy condition.
207. PALUDRINE
This is a very effective remedy for malaria. As a prophylatic it can be taken during the usual
malaria season to prevent malarial infection. The tablets are odourless bitter-tast-ing and white
in colour. Administered by mouth they are well tolerated and produce no unpleasantness if the
normal dosage is adhered to.
As a prophylatic or for suppressive treatment in the case of healthy individuals living in highly
malarious areas, the per-son should take one 0.3 gm. tablet once a week, or one 0.1 gm. tablet
every other day.
During an actual attack if it is of benign tertian, take one tablet of 0.1 gm. three times a day for
ten days, or 1 tablet of 0.3 gm. once daily for ten days.
If the attack is of the malignant tertian type, take 2 tablets of 0.1 gm three times a day for ten
days, or 1 tablet of 0.3 gm. twice a day. In severe cases, for the first two days, take 3 tab-lets of
0.1 gm. three times a day, or 1 tablet of 0.3 gm. thrice daily. Then for the next eight days, take
two tablets of 0.1 gm. three times a day or 0.3 gm. twice daily.
208. PEPS
These are cough lozenges or tablets. They contain liquo-rice, anisi, etc. They are palatable.
Take one or two at bed time and whenever is necessary.
209. PENICILLIN LOZENGES
Penicillin is the best germicide. This is useful in sore throat, bronchitis, cough, etc.
CHAPTER XLII
210. TINCTURE MYRRH
Myrrh is an aromatic substance obtained from an Arabian plant. It stops bleeding in spongy
gums.
It is useful as a mouth wash: 1 drachm in 1 ounce of water. It is one of the ingredients of gum
paste. It stimulates the heal-ing of sores and ulcers in the mouth.
211. TINCTURE IODINE
This is an absorbent, lymphatic stimulant, antiseptic, counter-irritant and resolvent. This is useful
in contusion swell-ing, rheumatism of joints, enlargement of lymphatic glands, etc. This can be
used as a lotion for cleaning foul ulcers.
Goitre or enlargement of the thyroid gland develops on ac-count of iodine deficiency.
Take 2 drops of French iodine in 2 tablespoonfuls of water twice daily after food for a month.
Goitre will disappear.
212. FRIAR'S BALSAM

It is also known by the name Tr. Benzoin Co. It is an appli-cation for wounds. Dip a piece of
cotton in the tincture and ap-ply it to the wound. There is no necessity for bandaging. It stops
bleeding. It is an antiseptic.
Put a teaspoonful in a kettle containing boiling water and inhale the steam. This is beneficial in
bronchitis, sore throat and influenza. It will clear and strengthen the voice. It will pre-vent the
development of influenza.
CHAPTER XLIII
213. PILES
(i) Devadaalyaadi Lepa
Vandaal seeds 5 Tolas
Saindhaa Namak (salt) 5 Tolas
Grind these two and with fresh butter milk, till it becomes an ointment. Apply it to the anus,
about one tola, after answer-ing the calls of nature.
(ii) Arshakuthaar Lepa
Haridra Pushpa (flower) 2 ½ Tolas
Shanka Choorna 2 ½ Tolas
Mainasil 2 Tolas
Powder these three, and add to 10 Tolas of extract of Gaja Pippali. Stir well till it becomes as
thick as butter. Preserve it in bottles. Apply to the rectum every day.
(iii) Durnaphar Lepa
Seeds of bitter Tumbi 5 Tolas
Jaggery 21 Tolas
Powder it and add to the fresh butter milk, till it becomes an ointment. Apply this 2-3 times daily.
(iv) Ksheeraadi Lepa
Arka Dugdha 2 Tolas
Thohar Dugdha 2 Tolas
Leaves of bitter Tumbi 2 Tolas
Buds of Karanja 2 Tolas
Grind well. Prepare an ointment by mixing this to 10 tolas of goat's good urine. Apply twice-
morning and evening about y2 tola of this ointment.
(v) Shigru Mooladi Lepa
Bark of the root of Suhaajan 3 Tolas
Arka Patra 3 Tolas
Grind well in goat's milk and prepare ointment. Apply 3-4 times a day.
(vi) Kaachanee Lepa
Haridra 2 Tolas
Bitter Turayee 2 Tolas

Grind well in 4 Tolas of mustard oil, till it becomes an oint-ment. Apply 1 tola of it after
answering the calls of nature.
(vii) Nimbaadi Lepa
Neem Leaves 2 1/2 Tolas
Kaneer Leaves 2 1/2 Tolas
Grind well and make it an ointment in 5 tolas of butter milk. Apply twice daily.
(viii) Turaaksheeree Lepa
Vanshalochan 132 Tolas
Chotee Ilaayachee 1 1/2 Tolas
Kattacha (Khadir Sattwa) 1 1/2 Tolas
Neela Tootia (copper sulphate) 1 1/2 Tolas
Powder well. Stir well in iemon juice and make pills of ,i2 tola. Dry the pills. Grind again each of
the pill in water and apply 3 to 4 times a day.
(ix) Kaisaraadi Lepa
Chotee Pippali 1 Tola
Haridra 1 Tola
Sankha Bhasma 1/2 Tola
Sazzi Kshaar 1/2 Tola
Leaves and seeds of Karanjee 2 Tolas
Saindhaa Namak (salt) 1 Tola
Naga-kesar 2 Tolas
Ajawain 2 Tolas
Powder well and strain through a cloth. Extract 15 tolas of milk out of Arka leaves and grind the
above powder with it. Dry the powder. Again stir well in cow's milk. Preserve it in bottles. Apply
before sunrise and before going to the bed to the rectum. Avoid oily preparations, chillies,
tamarind, jaggery.
(x) Ahephenaadi Lepa
Nootan Bhang (fresh Bhang) 1 Tola

Ahiphena 1/12 Tola
Powder in fresh water and make like poultice. Apply this to a piece of cloth. Heat it a little and
then tie it to the anus.
(xi) Guggulaadi Kalka
Sugar-cane juice 1/2 Seer
Gingily Oil 2 Chattak
Suddha Guggula 5 Tolas
(a) Extract sugar-cane juice first. (b) Add this to ten totals of Gingily oil. (c) Boil it in low fire, till
the oil alone remains and take it away from the fire. (d) Take 5 totals of Guggula and strain it in
5 tolas of milk. (e) Add this to the previous one, i.e., the boiled oil, till it becomes an ointment.
Preserve it is tinned ves-sel. Apply 1 tola every night before retiring to bed.
214. SCORPION STING
The sting is painful on account of the inoculation of a min-ute amount of intensely irritating
poison. The poison is an acid. It is destroyed by treatment with an alkali such as ammonia or
carbonate of sodas. Immediately apply a little strong solution of ammonia or carbonate of soda
in solution before the poison can diffuse into the tissues. This will relieve the pain and pre-vent
any of the unpleasant general effects. Do the treatment immediately. Otherwise, the poison will
spread in the tissues. Tie a ligature just above the spot of the sting, immediately.
Death from scorpion sting has been recorded. Scorpions in Deva Prayag Himalaya and
neighbouring villages are very poisonous. People generally die. Some villages have been
evacuated. Black scorpions are very poisonous. In Malaya scorpion sting is not poisonous at all
but stings by centipede are poisonous.
The same treatment can be given in stings by wasps and other insects.
Ipecacuantia paste is also beneficial.
Keep the part immersed in cold water or hot water. Keep up the heat by adding fresh hot water.
Tie a thick wet bandage to the affected part. Apply ice. This is very effective. Evaporat-ing lotion
is also very effective.
Hip bath, hot foot bath, steam bath, hot fomentation are also beneficial.
The pain is at first like a prick from a needle. In a few sec-onds it assumes an agonising form as
if many needles are thrust into the part. One feels as if fire is applied to the part. The pain
shoots up towards the body and reaches a climax in ten minutes. The part affected swells up.
The lymphatis get af-fected. A red line is seen in the skin. The glands swell. The joint above the
part feels stiff.
215. SNAKE BITE

Snakes inject their poison through punctures made by two prominent upper teeth, the fangs.
The bites of poisonous snakes show two marks thus. If there are more than two marks, you may
conclude that the creature is not poisonous or that the wound has not been inflicted by the
poison fangs. The pain is of a stinging character.
There are two principal families, the Colubring of which the best known example is the cobra
and the Viperine, of which a good example is the Russel's Viper.
The action of Colubrine poison is chiefly on the nervous system. It causes paralysis of the
breathing centre. It acts on the blood to a small degree. But the action of Viperine is chiefly on
the blood. It prevents the blood from clotting. It acts on the nervous system to a small extent.
In the case of cobra bite, faintness, drowsiness, loss of power in the legs, and vomiting occur.
The breathing becomes short and laboured. The pulse becomes quick and intermittant. The
tongue protrudes, The powers of speech and swallowing are lost. Frothy saliva comes from the
mouth. Twitching of the muscles also takes place. Cold sweats and convulsions occur. The
patient becomes insensible and unconscious.
(i) Treatment
Act as promptly as possible. Ligature the part above the bite, or tie a light bandage or string
round the limb, a few inches above the wound, but never on the forearm or below the knee, as
there are two bones in these parts and the blood vessels run between them.
Bites by snakes should be sucked out immediately if they can be reached either by the patient
himself or by a friend. The mouth of the one performing the operation must not contain any
wound or abrasion. The mouth should be thoroughly rinsed with water after each withdrawal of
blood.
Or, after incising the wound apply solid permanganate crystals on the wound. Rub them well.
Inject 2 grains of per-manganate in solution into 2 or 3 spots round the wound by means of a
hypodermic syringe.
Inject anti-venene at once.
Hot coffee or tea may do some good. It is a serious mis-take to dose the patient with whisky or
alcohol. Whisky is not an antidote to the snake poison. The patient dies on account of the
effects of large doses of strong whisky. Whisky and stimulating drugs like ammonia or
strychnine make the conditions worse. Very few people die as a direct result of snake bite. On
the contrary very many have died as a result of hasty administra-tion of large doses of whisky
after a bite.
(ii) Nature Cure
The wound should be widened by an incision and cleansed with dilute lemon juice. Immediately
after this, apply a wet bandage or a wet pack. Fast for a day or two is beneficial. Fasting is the
surest method of preventing any poison from bites of snakes.
Pour cold water on the head. Give an enema.
Steam bath, hip bath, spinal bath, trunk bath are also ben-eficial.
The legs, arms and trunk may be bathed with hot water.
(iii) Divine Cure
Do Mrityunjaya Japa and Kirtan vigorously. This is won-derfully effective and highly powerful.
216. MIRACLE CURE OF COUNTRY FOLK
FOR WARTS
Everywhere in the world, the country people have their own peculiar methods of curing certain
kinds of diseases, which cannot be easily ruled out as a mere witchcraft. I shall re-late to you an
instance that I have personally witnessed. My personal assistant Sri Purushottam Swami had,
for a number of years, painless, small, hard excrescences, otherwise known as warts, on all
over his hands. His aide, a village-lad from the neighbourhood of Rishikesh, observed this and
suggested that he might try a simple cure-of-faith which is usually practiced in the villages, with
unquestionable success. The boy himself had warts and was now completely cured through this
method.
The method is simple. A solution has to be made by rub-bing a copper-piece on a stone with a
little water. It should be applied on the warts with the same copper-piece only once. Then the
copper-piece (it can be a piece) should be wrapped with a piece of cloth and discarded at a
crossing point of two roads or a trivium.
Purushottam Swami tried this method. His warts disap-peared very soon and not a scar could
be found on his hands after a couple of months. Several months have gone by since, and not a
single wart has appeared again.
There are a number of similar methods of cure which you can know from the village folk. Do not
be prejudiced against them. They are sometimes wiser than even the most learned physicians.
CHAPTER XLIV
EQUIPMENT FOR HOME REMEDIES CUP-BOARD
217. THIRTEEN COMMON HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES
(i) Pepper Lozenges
Powder some black pepper and sugarcandy (Misri). Add equal parts. Mix a little ghee, and
make it into small balls. Keep one in the mouth and slowly drink the essence. This is very useful
in Bronchitis or cough.
(ii) Camphor-tobacco
If you suffer from carious tooth, stuff the socket with a little camphor and tobacco, the worms will
die. You will be relieved from the pain also.
(iii) Burnt Alum
This is very useful in ague or malaria. This is a well-tried medicine. Burn alum in iron pan. Mix it
with four parts of sugar. Take one teaspoonful of the powder 3 times in a day. Only three doses
will he sufficient to eradicate malaria. You can repeat the medicine, if the fever does not leave
you. It does not matter if the fever is or not when the medicine is administered.
(iv) Mulati (liquorice)
Take a Masha of powdered Mulati and mix this with 2 Mashas of sugar. This is one dose. Take
this in morning and evening with water. This is very useful in leucorrhoea (whites), and flooding
(excessive menstruation).
(v) Lime Water
Ten to twelve drops in a Lota of water should be drunk four times a day. A plug of cotton or cloth
soaked in the lime water should be used externally. This should be changed 3 or 4 times a day.
This is very useful in flooding or excessive menstruation. This is useful in all kinds of bleedings
also.
(vi) Mustard Oil and Camphor
Dissolve some camphor in the mustard oil. Heat this. It is highly useful in lumbago or pain in the
hips and back and rheu-matism of the joints, muscular pain in the whole body. If this is applied
to the breasts, it will stop the secretion of milk.
(vii) Acetic Acid
This is vinegar. The strong solution is used to destroy warts. The warts is lightly touched with
the acid. The surround-ing part is protected by cotton wool. The acid is not allowed to fall on the
surrounding skin. This is useful in wasp and bee stings.
(viii) Anethi Water
This is useful in increasing the milk in nursing mothers.
(ix) Curd Loaf
Bind curd in a piece of cloth and let its water drop out. Take this curd and mould it in the form of
a bread loaf. Place this over the carbuncle and put on bandage. Change this three or four times
a day. All sloughs will come out easily. This is very cool-ing application too.
(x) Oil of Babchi
This removes the patches in the skin (leucoderma or white leprosy). The pigment reappears on
the skin. The oil is rubbed well in the affected area.
(xi) Senna Leaves (Sonnamukhi)
This is good, harmless, purgative. One or two teaspoon-fuls of the leaves are boiled in water.
The water is strained and drunk. You can add a little dried ginger and dried rosebuds.
(xii) Castor Oil
This is very soothing purgative. It can be taken along with peppermint water, tea or coffee. If
some drops are put in the eyes at night, the foreign particles of dust or charcoal will be re-
moved easily.
(xiii) Tincture Quinine Ammoniate
This is very effective in cold in the nose. Take half a tea-spoonful or one teaspoonful in 2
tablespoonful of water once or twice. You can find relief at once.
218. DOMESTIC REMEDIES
FOR MEDICINE CHEST
1. Acetic acid.
2. Boric acid or Boric powder.
3. Alum powder.
4. Bicarbonate of soda.
5. Easton's syrup.
6. Essence of ginger.
7. Essence of peppermint.
8. Liquid extract of cascara.
9. Glycerine.
10. Honey.
11. Liniment of iodine.
12. Tincture of iodine.
13. Oil of turpentine.
14. Boric ointment.
15. Chrysophonic ointment.
16. Zinc ointment.

17. Vaseline.
18. Strong solution of ammonia (Liquor Ammonia Fortis).
19. Permanganate of potash.
20. Salvolatile or (Spiritus ammonia aromaticus).
21. Wine of Ipecac.
22. Citrate of caffeine.
23. Phenacetin.
24. Subnitrate of bismuth.
25. Aromatic chalk powder.
26. Dover's powder.
27. Calomel.
28. Chlorodyne.
29. Gregory's powder.
30. Sweet spirit of nitre.
31. Opodeldoc or soap liniment.
32. Perogoric.
33. Quinine.
34. Strong tincture of ginger.
35. Magnesium Citrate, granular effervescent.
36. Epsom or glauber's salt.
37. Compound Jalap powder.
The doses, action and therapeutic uses of the above edies will be dealt with in subsequent
numbers.
219. HOME REMEDIES
CUP-BOARD
(i) Equipment for Dressing
Absorbent : cottonwool
Adhesive : plaster on spool
Bandages : width one, two or three inches
Boric lint for fomentation.
White lint for the spreading of ointment.
(ii) Equipment for External Uses
Acetic acid Alum powder

Antiphilogestine Boric powder
Dettol (disinfectant) Emulsion of airiflavine in liquid paraffin
Hydrogen peroxide Linseed meal
Methylated spirit Olive oil
Permanganate of potash Soft vaseline
Tincture of iodine Turpentine liniment
Zinc oxide.
(iii) Equipment for Internal Uses
Aromatic spirit of ammonia Aspirin tablets

Castor oil Cathartic vegetable tablets
Chlorodyne Cough mixture
Dover's powder Easton syrup
Essence of ginger Essence of peppermint
Eno's fruit salt Glycerine
Honey Liquid extract of cascara
Mag sulph Milk of magnesia
Paludrine tablets Penicillin lozenges
Paregoric elixir Quinine tablets
Senna pods Sodii bicarbonate
Syrup of figs Subnitrite of bismuth
Tincture quinine ammonia
(iv) The Appliances
Clinical Thermometer Douche can

Enema syringe Eye dropper
220.COMMN HERBS
THEIR NAMES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
TAMIL SANSKRIT HINDI Latin
Chitramutti Bala Pavonia Zeylanica
Peramutti Mahabala Suganda Vala Pavonia Oiorata
Karkadaga Singhi Karkatashringi Kakrasingi Rhus Succedenea (Eng:The

Galls
Karisilankanni Bhringaraj: Bungrah Eclipta Prostata

Kesaranja
Vallarai Brahmi Khulakudi Hydrocotyle Asiatica (Eng:
Indian Pennyworth
Sombu Sthula jeerakam Pimpinell Anisum (Eng. Anise

Seeds
Sathakuppai Misi Suva Anetheum Sowa Eng The Dilll
Vasambu Vacha Bach Acorus calamus Eng:

Sweetflag)
Kudasppalai (Bark Kutaja Karva indarjow Marsdenia volubilis (Eng: The

used) Kurchi Tellicherry Bark)
Amman Pachcharisi Dudhi Euphorbia Pilulifera (Eng:

Australian Asthma weed)
Kandangkattiri Kanta Kaarikaa Kateli Solanum Jacquini (Eng: Wild

eggs plant)
Mudakkatran Kshirini, Karnaspota Kanphata Cardiospermum Helicacabum

(Balloon vine)
Ponnangkanni Meenakshi Allernanthera Sessiles
Tumbai Dronapushpi Gumamadhupati Leucus Aspera
Manaththakkali Kakamachi Make Solanum Nigrum
Chukku Nagaram sonth Zingiber officinalis (Dried

Ginger)
APPENDICES
APPENDIX-I
INDEX TO THERAPEUTIC ACTION OF BAZAAR DRUGS
Alterative (Vyadha-bheda-kari) is a drug that alters the morbid or unhealthy processes in the
body and restores the normal functions of an organ in some unknown way. It corrects or alters a
poisoned condition of blood stream and restores healthy functioning. Example: Akrot (walnut),
Adhatoda, white pumpkin, sarsaparilla, apamarga, chiretta, garlic.
Anaphrodisiac is opposite of aphrodisiac. It depresses the sexual organ. E.g., Camphor, etc.
Anti Sialagogue: A drug or substance that reduces the flow of saliva.
Antiseptic (dhatu ksheenarothi) is a remedy that prevents putrefaction and inhibits the growth of
germs. E.g., Ajowan, benzoin, tobacco, betel, nim oil, cloves, sugarcane, sandal, etc.
Antispasmodic (anghakarshana nasini): It is an agent or remedy that allays or relieves
convulsions or spasmodic pains. E.g., opium, adhadhodha, cloves, Ajowan, cannabis, saffron,
jadamanchi, tobacco, mint, asafoetida.
Antilithic is a medicine or substance that prevents the for-mation of stones in the gall-bladder,
kidneys, urinary bladder, etc. E.g., coffee seeds, benzoin, mountain nim.
Anti-Philogistic: A remedy that reduces inflammation. E.g., opium.
Anti-Soporific: A remedy that prevents sleep and keeps one awake. E.g., tea, coffee, etc.
Antidote (Vishanasini): A remedy that counteracts the ac-tion of a poison. E.g., belladonna for
opium, etc.
Antibilious (Pitthasanthini): A remedy that produces a soothing effect over diseases caused by
excessive secretion of bile. E.g., ginger, lemon, cumin, coriander, etc.
Anthelmintic (Kriminasini): A remedy or medicine that ei-ther kills or renders powerless or expels
intestinal worms (vermicide and vermifuge). E.g., bark of walnut, Adhatoda, black cumin, palas,
asafoetida, bark of pomegranate, fruits and seeds, garlic, leaves and seeds of nim. Antiperiodic:
An agent that acts against the poison of peri-odic fever like malaria. E.g., apamarga, pepper.
Anti Rheumatic (Vataharakari): A remedy that prevents the Vata diseases in the body. E.g.,
pepper, dried ginger.
Antispasmodic is a drug that acts against spasm of mus-cles. It reduces or prevents excessive
muscular contractions. E.g., Valerian, Belladonna, Lobelia, etc.
Antipyretic: A remedy that reduces the temperature of fe-ver. E.g., pepper.
Anodyne (Vedanasantani): A drug that gives relief from pain. E.g., opium, cannabis.
Aphrodisiac (Kamavardhini) is a medicine that stimulates the sexual passion. E.g., walnut,
linseed, black-gram, cinna-mon, cannabis, radish, nutmug, jalamisri, asafoetida, dates,
cashewnuts, lady's finger, methi seeds, betel.
Aromatic is a drug that stimulates digestion and appetite. It has good aroma. E.g., Cardamom,
Spirit-Ammonia, Aromaticus, calumba, etc. Astringent (Sankosanakari): A substance that
causes contraction of organic tissues or arrests bleeding diarrhoea, etc.. E.g., walnut, asoka,
isofgul seeds, Ajowan, poppy seeds, Bengal-gram, catechu, Madras nut coloured, Ragi, guava,
Horse-gram, sandal, cumin seeds, triphala, apamarga, jambul, mint, mangusteen, gall-nut,
pomegranate bark and seeds, bael fruit, methi seeds, betel, gum arabic.
Cardiac Depressant (Apakarshanakari) is a drug or sub-stance that retards or depresses the

action of the heart.
Cardiac Stimulant (Brudushnakari) is a remedy that stimu-lates the heart. E.g., chillies, coffee.
Cerminative (Udharavathaharakari): A drug that expels wind from the bowels and relieves pain
and corrects digestion. E.g., ginger, cloves, cinnamon, long pepper, nux vomica, lemon,
cardamom, Ajowan, coriander, nutmeg, cumin seeds,
dried ginger, mint, asafoetida, turmeric, pepper, tailed pepper, methi seeds, garlic, white pepper,
betel.
Cathartic: A drug that promotes evacuation from the bow-els. It is divided into (1) laxative which
induces gentle bowel movement, E.g., figs, prunes, phenolpthalin etc., and (2) pur-gative which
produces copious, repeated and more watery mo-tions, E.g., Pulvis Jalap, Croton, etc.
Chologogue (Pithakari): A remedy that promotes the se-cretion or excretion of bile. E.g.,
podophyllin, walnut seed.
Cordial (Rakthavardhani) Blood tonic: A drug that im-proves the quality and quantity of blood.
E.g., fig, sarsaparilla.
Depurative (Malina-nivartini): A remedy that purifies the animal economy. E.g., Palas.
Deodarant (Bhutigandha nasini): A remedy that destroys, removes or corrects offensive odour.
E.g., Benzoin.
Demulcent (Antar Snigdhakari): The drug that soothes or protects the mucous membrane. E.g.,
liquorice, linseed, isafgul, black-gram, sesamum, cucumber, poppy seeds, gum, sugarcane,
wheat, grapes, tulasi, sarsaparilla, Jack, barley, dates, plantain fruit, wood apple, onion, lady's
finger, methi seeds.
Diaphoretic is a drug that produces increased perspira-tion. It reduces fever by inducing

increased perspiration. E.g., Hyoscyamus, Spirit Acthenia, Nitrosi etc.
Discutient: An agent that causes disappearance of swell-ing. E.g., nim leaves.
Disinfectant (Aganduka-roka-nasini): A remedy that de-stroys germs and prevents fermentation

and putrefaction. E.g., Vasambu.
Digestive (Pachana Kari): A drug that promotes digestion. E.g., ginger, bael, Ajowan, cumin,
black pepper.
Diuretic (Mootra Vardhani): A drug that increases the flow or secretion of urine.
Ecbolic is an drug that increases the activity of a pregnant uterus.
Emitic (Vamana Kari): A remedy that causes vomiting, E.g., salt, mustard, copper sulphate,
alum, dhatura, tobacco.
Emmenagogue (Ritu-vardhani): A remedy that stimulates and regulates the menstrual flow.
E.g., pine-apple, Adhatoda, linseed, sesamum, black cumin, saffron, papaya, asafoetida, onion,
methi leaves.
Emollient (Snigdhakari): An agent which by external appli-cation soothes the skin. E.g., castor
oil, vaseline, isafgul, gum arabic, lady's finger methi seeds, ground-nut.
Errhine (Sirovirechani): A drug when applied to the mu-cous membrane of the nose, increases
nasal secretion. E.g., tobacco. Expectorant (Kaphaharakari): A drug that promotes ex-
pectoration of phlegm or sputum. E.g., liquorice, opium, Adhatoda, jadamanchi, benzoin, tulasi,
asafoetida, dates, tailed pepper, onion, garlic.
Febrifuge (Jvaraharakari): A remedy that lessens or re-moves fever. E.g., Bael leaves, betel,
pepper, etc.
General Anaesthetic is a drug or substance that stops bleeding by cogutating the blood or
contracting the arteries and arterioles. E.g., Calcium-chloride, pituitrin, opium, adrenalin, etc.
Germicide (Kriminasani): A remedy that destroys the mi-cro-organism or germs. E.g.. Adhatoda,
Vasambu. Also see Anthelmintic. Haemostatic (Raktha sthambhanakari) is a drug that ar-rests
or restrains bleeding. E.g., opium, pine apple, white pumpkin, pomegranate, gall-nut.
Hepatic (Yakrutha balakari) is an agent or medicine that tones the action of the liver. E.g.,
ammonium chloride, etc.
Hydragogue (Jalavirochani): A drug that produces watery motions by inducing free secretion
from the intestional glands and removing much serum from the intestinal blod vessels. E.g.,
croton.
Hypnotic or Soporific (Nidrakari) is a drug that induces sleep. E.g., opium, cannabis. For
opposite action see Antisoporific. Lactagogue (Ksheeravardhini): A remedy that increases the
secretion of milk in the breasts of nursing mothers. E.g., lin-seed, cotton-seed extract, potatoes,
black-gram, seasamum, black cumin seeds, methi seeds, betel.
Lactifuge (Ksheeranasini): An agent that reduces or stops the secretion of milk in the breasts.
E.g., the bark of walnut, Arabian jasmine.
Laxative (Malakari): A remedy that loosens the bowels, a mild purgative. E.g., walnut seeds,
liquorice, fig, castor oil, lin-seed, potatoes, sesamum, Bengal-gram, sugarcane, grapes,
amalaka, myrobalan, papaya, tamarind fruit, asafoetida, methi leaves, ground-nut.
Local Anodyne (Sarmaveda nasandani): An agent which relieves pain in the skin (locally).
Local Anaesthetic (Smritirodhakari): A substance that pro-duces less of sensation locally. E.g.,
oil of cloves, ice, cocaine, etc.
Local Stimulant: A drug that irritates the skin locally.
Lithontriptic (Pashanabhedini): A remedy that has the power of dissolving the various stones in
the body, in the gall-bladder, kidneys and urinary bladder. E.g., Benzoates for phosphatic and
alkalis for uric acid caculi in the urinary tract.
Mild Diuretic (Laghu-mootra vardhini) is a drug or sub-stance that slightly increases the flow or
secretion of the urine.
Muscular Tonic is a drug that tones up the muscular tis-sues. E.g., the seeds of pomegranate,
Madras-nut (kalipakku).
Narcotic: A drug or remedy that produces narcosis or stu-por. E.g., opium, stramonium or
dhatura, cannabis, nutmeg, to-bacco. Also see Hypnotic or Soporific.
Nervine Tonic: A remedy that causes nervous excitement or gives tone to the nervous system.
E.g., Brahmi.
Nervous Sedative (Nadisamanakari): A remedy that pro-duces a soothing influence by lowering

the functional activity of the nervous system. Eg., potatoes, opium, cannabis.
Nutrient or Nutretic (Poshanakiari): A drug that nourishes the body as a whole. E.g., Lavang
(cloves), black-gram, sesamum seeds, cucumber, poppy seeds, sugarcane, white pumpkin,
wheat, ragi, sweet-potatoes, maize, grapes, green-gram, barley, jack, date, plantain fruit.
Parasiticide (Krumikni): An agent that kills parasite. E.g., Black cumin.
Parturifarient (Prasavakari): A remedy that induces the la-bour pain in order to hasten the
delivery. E.g., Cannabis.
Purgative (Virechani): A remedy that causes copious wa-tery evacuation of the bowels. E.g.,
castor oil, croton, jalap, etc.
Refrigerant (Seetalakari) is a drug that has cooling proper-ties or lowers the bodily temperature.
E.g., walnut, black-gram, sandal, lemons, Bengal-gram (Chang), sugarcane, sweet-po-tatoes,
grapes, coconut water, amla, green grass, mint, leaves of tamarind, dates. pomegranate fruit,
wood apple, lady's fin-ger, methi leaves, cucumber.
Resolvent: An agent that causes the absorption of inflam-matory or other swelling. E.g., Pepper,
hill nim flower.
Restorative is a drug or medicine or food that is effica-cious in restoring one to health and
vigour.
Rubefacient (Shonakari): A drug that produces reddening of the skin.
Sedative (Samanakari): A substance that produces a soothing effect by lowering functional

activity. E.g., opium, can-nabis, tobacco. Sialogogue (Dhravakari): A drug that increases the
flow of Saliva. E.g, ginger, Ajowan, tobacco, betel.
Stimulant (Ushnakari): A remedy that exites the functions of an organ or some process of the
body economy. E.g., opium, ginger, nux vomica, sesamum, Ajowan, cannabis, coffee, saf-fron,
coriander, jadamanji, sandal, cardamom, cumin, dried ginger, Tulasi, chiretta, mint leaves,
turmeric, chillies, pepper, resin, radish, tailed pepper, onions, garlic, betel, ghee.
Stomachic (Jatharagni Vardhani): An agent that invigo-rates the functional activities of the
stomach. E.g„ Ajowan, gin-ger, cloves, black cumin, cardamom, saffron, coriander, cumin, dried
ginger, jambul, chiretta, mint, dates, chillies, radish, bael, garlic, betel, the flower of nim.
Sudorific is a drug or substance that increases the flow of perspiration and reduces high
temperature in fever. E.g., Tr. Hyoscyamus, Spt. Aetheris Nitrosi, Lqr. Ammonia Acetetics etc.
Tonic (Balakari): A drug that restores the normal tone of the body. E.g., Akrot, black-gram,
sesamum, Ajowan, white pumpkin, horse-gram, sarsaparilla, chiretta.
Uterine Tonic: A drug that tones the uterus. E.g., Asoka.
Uterine Sedative: A remedy that produces a soothing ef-fect on the uterus by lessening its
functional activity. E.g., Asoka.
Vermicide is a drug that kills the worms in the bowels. E.g., Santonin, Betanaphthol, oil of
chenopodium, etc.
Vermifuge is a drug that causes expulsion of worms from the bowels.
Vesicant (Tuvakspotakari): A drug that produces vesicles and blisters when applied to the skin,
E.g., Mustard.
NAMES OF BAZAAR MEDICINES
(ENGLISH-HINDI )
Ajowan—Omum seed, carum
Aloes—Musabar
Alum—Phitkari
Ammonium Chloride—Nausadar
Anise seed—Sonf
Arusha, Vasaka—Adhatoda
Asoka—Saraca Indica
Atis—Aconite heterophyllum
Baberang—Embelia Ribes and Embelia Robusta
Babul Gond—Gum Babul

Bach—Acorus Calamus
Betel-nut, Areca nut—Supari
Bhindi—Abelmoschus-Hibiscus
Bhoree-loth—Toonia-loth
Bonduc-nut—Katkalija
Borax—Sohaga
Butea gum—Palas-ki-gond
Butea seeds—Palas-ki-bij
Camphor—Kapur
Capsicum, chillies—Lal Mirch
Caraway seeds, cumin seeds—Jira
Castor oil—Arandi-ke Tel
Catechu—Kaththa
Charcoal—Koylah
Chaulmoogra oil—Chaulmoogra Tel
Choobchini—China root
Copper sulphate—Nila Tutiya, Tutia
Coriander seeds—Dhania
Creat or Kriyet—Kalmeg
Cubebs—Kabab-chini
Dadmurdan—Ring-Worm shrub
Dill—Soyah
Fennel—Ban Sonf
Galls—Maiphul, Majufal
Garjan Tel—wood oil
Ground nut, monkey nut<197>Mungphalli

Gulancha—Tinospora Cordifolia
lnder Jat—a kind of seed
Isaphgul—seeds of Plurnbago Ovata
Jangli Pikvan, vomiting swallow wort—Anantamul
Jatamansi, Balchir—Indian Spikenard
Kakra Singhi—Gall like excrescences found on Pistacia Integermia and Rheus Succedanea
Kaladana—seeds of 1pomoea hedercea
Kamala—powdered capsules of Mallotus philippinensis
Karmari—Cocculus Indicus seeds
Kokum—seeds of Garania purpura
Kurchi—Wrightea anti-dysenterica
Lalchita—Lead wort
Lemon grass—Gandha bena, Andropogon citratis
Lime—Nimbu
Liquorice—Mulathi
Mangostin—fruit of Garcinia Mangostana
Musk—Kasturi
Mustard—Rai
Myrobalan (belerica)—Bahera
Myrobalan (Chubelic)—Har or Chhoti Har
Myrobalan (Embelic), Indian Gooseberry —Amla
Myrrh—Bol
Papaiya—the fruit of carica papaya, papeeta
Pipul, pupuli, pupil' Mula—long-pepper
Pithori-Turband—white Turpeth root,
the root of 1pomoea turpethum

Plantain, Banana—Kela
Pomegranate—Anar
Potas Nitras—saltpetre shora
Rasaut, Barberry root—Dar Haldi
Sandal wood—Chandan
Sarsaparilla—Salsa, Anantamul
Sendha Nimak—rock salt
Senna—Sonnamakki
Shajna, Moringa—Horse-radish tree,
the fresh root of Moringa pterygosperma
Sodium Chloride—Namak
Somraj—Veronica seed, purple Fleabane
Sufed Damar—Piney Resin
Sulphate of iron—Kasis, Hiri Kasis
Sulphur—Gandhak
Talmakhan—Asteracantha
Tamarind—Imli
Turmeric--Haldi
Vinegar—Sirka
INDEX TO AYURVEDIC DRUGS
(SANSKRIT AND LATIN TERMS)
Abhaya Terminalia Chebula

Agaru Aquilaria Agallocha
Agnimanth Premna Integrifolia
Ajamoda Carum Ajamoda
Akarkarabh Anacyclus Pyrethrum
Amalaka Phyllanthus Emblica
Amlavetasa Rumex vesicarius
Amrasthi Mango-stone
Amrita Tinospora Cordifolia
Apamarga Achyranthes Aspera
Arani Premna Intergrifolia
Arka Calotropis Procera
Ashoka Joneshia Ashoka
Ashrnabheda Coleaus Hromaticus
Ashwagandha Withania Somnifera
Ashwatha Ficus Religiosa
Atibala Abutilon !ndicum
Avalguja Psoralea Corylifolia
Babbul Acacia Arabica
Bakuchi Psoralea crylifolia
Bhallataka Semecarpus Anacardium
Bhringaraj Eclipta Alba
Bibhitaka Terminalia Belerica
Bida Lavan Vit salt
Bilva Aegle Marmeles
Brahmi Hydrocotyle
Brihati Solanum Indicum
Chakramarda Cassia Tora
Chandana Santalum Album
Changeri Oxalis Corniculata
Chaturjata Twak, Tamalpatra, Ela &
Nagpushpa
Chincha Tamarindus Indica
Chitraka Plumbago Zeylanica
Chopchini Smilxa China
Chyavya Piper Chaba
Dadima Punica Granatum
Danti Croton Polyandrum
Darbha Eragrostis Cynosurioides
Darvi Berberis Aristata
Deodar Pinus Deodara
Dhanaka Coriandum Sativum
Dhanvayasa Fagonia Arabica
Dhataki Woodfordia Floribunda
Dhustura Datura Stramonium
Draksha Vitis Vinifera
Ela Elettaria Cardamomum
Eliyaka Aloes
Gandhaka Sulphur
Gangeruki Grewia Populifolia
Gokshuraka Tribulus Terrestris
Gooduchi Tinospora Cordifolia
Guggulu Commiphora Mucha!
Gunja Abms Precatorious
Haritaki (See Abhaya)
Hingupatri Peucedanum Crande
Indrayava Holarrhena
Antidysenterica
Irimeda Acacacia Farnesiana
Jambuasthi Jambul stone
Jasat-pushaa Zinc Oxide
Jatipatri Myristica Frangrans (bark)
Jatiphala Myristica Frangrans (fruit)
Jiraka Cuminum Cyminum
Jyotishnati Celastras Paniculata
Kajjali Mercury and Sulphur
Kakubha Terminalia Arjun
Kanchanar Bauhinia Variegata
Kankola Piper Cubeba
Kantkarika Solanum Xanthocarpum
Kapittha Feronia Elephantum
Karanja Pongamia Glabra
Karpasmoola Root of Gossypium
Karpur Camphor
Kasisa Sulphate of Iron
Katphala Mirica Nagi
Katuki Picrorrhiza Kurroa
Katurohini Picrorrhiza Kurroa
Keshara Mesua Ferea.
Kindaru Boswellia Floribunda
Kirata Swertia Chireta
Kirmani Artemisia Naritima
Kokilaksha Hygrophila Spinosa
Krishna lavana Black salt
Ksharas Yavakshara and Swarjika
Kshavak Artemisia Sternutatoria
Kuberaksha Caesalpinia Bonducella
Kunkuma Saffron
Kusha Poa Cynosuroides
Kustha Saussurea Lappa
Kutaj Holarrhena
Antidysenterica
Lajjalu Mimosa Pudica
Laksha Lac
Lashuna Alium Sativum
Lavanf Eugenia Caryophyllata
Lavang Symplocos Racemosa
Madan Randia Dumetorum
Madhuka Glycerrhiza Glabra
Mahanimba Melia Azeadrach
Manashila Realgar
Manjistha Rubia Cordifolia
Mansi Nardostachys Jatamanshl
Maricha Piper Nigrum
Markandi Senna
Mocharasa Bombax Malabaricum
Moolaka Raphanus Sativus
Moorva Clematis Triloba
Moosali Hypoxis Orchiodes
Mund Sphoeranthus Indicu•
Musta Cyperus Rotundus
Nagapushpa Messua Ferea
Nakha Nails
Narikela Cocoanut
Navasagar Chloride of Ammonia
Nichula Culamus Rotang
Nimb Melia Azadirachta
Nirgundi Vitex Nergundo
Padma Nelumbium Spar:Inman
Palasha Butea Frondosa
Panch lavana Five salts
Parada Mercury
Parpat Rungia Repens

Parsik Yavani Hyosoyamus Reticulatus
Patala Sterospermum Suaveolens
Patha Cissampelos Pareira
Patol Trichosanthes Dioica
Phalamla Garsina Indica
Pippala Ficus Religiosa
Pippali Piper Longum
Pippalimoola Piper Longum (Root)
Prastiparni Craria Lagopoides
Punarnava Boerhaavia Verticillata
Rakta-chandana Pterocarpus Santalinus
Rasakarpura Mercuric Chloride
Rasanjan Extract of Berberis Aristata
Rasasindhura Mercurial Preparation
Rasna Pluchea Lanceolata
Revanchi Rheum Emodi
Rohisha Cymbopogon Martini
Rohitaka Tecoma Undulata
Sahasara Aloes
Samudraphena Sepia Officinalis
Saptaparna Alstonina Scholaris
Sariva Hemidesmus Indicus
Sarshapa Brassica Juniea
Sauvarchala Black Salt
Shakrayava (See lndrayava)
Shalidarni Desmodium Gangenticum
Shalmali Bombax Malabaricum
Shankh Conchshell
Shankhpushpi Convolvulus Mycrophyllus
Sharpunkha Tephrosia Purpurea
Shatapusha Foeniculum Vulgare
Shatavari Asparagus Racemosus
Shathi Curcuma Zedoaria
Shigru Moringa Pterygosperma
Shirisha Albizzia Lebbek
Shiva Terminalla Chebula
Shringi Rhus Succedanea
Shunthi Zingiber Officinale
Shweta Clitoria Ternatea
Sidharthaka Brassica juncea
Sinduvar Vitex Nirgundi
Surana Amorphophallus
Campanulatus
Surasa Ocimum Sativum
Surashtraja Alum
Suryakshara Potassium Nitrate
Swarjikakshara Carbonate of Soda
Syonak Oroxylum Indicum
Tagar Valeriana Wallichii
Talisapatara Taxas Baccata
Tamalpatra Cinnamcmum Tamala
Tankana Borax
Tankanamla Boric acid
Tiktajiraka Vernonia Anthelmintica
Tila Seasamum Indica
Tintidika Tamarindus Indica
Trapusha Cucumis Sativus
Trayamana Delphinium Zalil
Trayanti Delphinium Zalil
Triphala Three Myrobalans
Trivrit Operculina Turpethum
Turushka Liquidamber Orientalis
Tutha Sulphate of Copper
Twak Cinnamomum Zeylanicum
Udumbara Ficus Glomerata
Vacha Acorus Calamus
Valaka Vetiveria Zizaniodes
Vanari Mucuna Pruriens
Vanshalochana Bamboo Mana
Varuna Crataeva Religiosa
Vasa Adhatoda Vasica
Vidang Embellia Ribs
Vidari lpomoea Digitata
Vijaya Canabis Indica
Visha Aconitum Heterophyllum
Vishatinduka Nux Vomica
Vridhadaraka Argyreia Speciosa
Yava Hordeum Valgare
Yavakshara Carbonate of Potash
Yavani Carum Copticum
Yestimadhu Glycerrhiza Glabra
APPENDIX-II
INDIAN DOMESTIC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
1 rupee or 1 tola 180 grains

1 copper pice 100 grains
1 half-kancha 1/8 Chhatak 2 fluid drachms
Kancha 1/4 Chhatak 4 fluid drachms
Chhatak 1/4 Pav about 2 fluid ounces
Pav 1/4 Seer about 8 fluid ounces
1 Seer (60 Chhataks) 32 fluid ounces 2 lbs or about 80 tolas
1 maund 40 seers 82 lbs or oz. dr.
1 ton 27 maunds
TABLE OF INDIAN AND ENGLISH WEIGHTS
1. Gunja 17/8 grains

6 Gunjas (1 Masha) 11 1/4gr. 1.16 tola
4 Masha (1 Shana) 45 gr. 1/4 tola
2 Shanas (1 Kola) 90 gr. 1/2 tola
2 Kolas (1 Karsha) 180 gr. 1 tola
2 Karsha (1 shukti) 260 gr. 2 tolas
2 Shukti (1 Pala) 1 oz. 282 1/2 gr. 4 tolas
2 Pala (1 Prasriti) 3 oz. 127 1/2 gr. 8 tolas
2 Prasriti (1 Kudava) 6 oz. 255 gr.
16 tolas
2 Kudava (Sharava) 13 oz. 72 1/2 gr.
32 tolas
2 Sharava (1 Prastha) 1 lb. 10 oz. 145 gr.
64 tolas
100 pala (1 Tula) 4 oz. 250 gr. 400 tolas
4 Prastha (1 Adhaka) 6 lb. 9 oz. 142 1/2 gr.
256 tolas
4 Adhaka (1 Drona) 26 lb. 5 oz. 132 1/2 gr.
1024 tolas
2 Dronas (1 Shoorpa) 52 lb. 10 oz. 256 gr.
2048 tolas
2000 Palas (1 Bhara) 250 lb. 11 oz. 187 gr.
8000 tolas
Note: 17/8 Grains 1
Gunja 437 1/2 grains 1 oz.
180 Grains 1 Tola 7000 grains 1 lb.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES-I
1 Gunja 2 grains
21 gunjas 1 varahan weight
1 ratti 2 grains
8 rattis 1 masa
12 masas 1 tola
5 tolas 1 chatak
2 1/2 tolas 1 ounce
4 chataks 1 pav
4 pavs 1 seer
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES-II
1 grain 0.0648 gramme

20 grains 1 scruple gr.
3 scruples 1 drachm gr.
60 grains 1 drachm gr.
437 1/2 grains 1 ounce gr.
8 drachms 1 ounce gr.
16 ounces 1 pound ib.
B. Measures of Capacity
1 minim 0.0592 millilitre m.or min.

60 minims 1 fluid dracms fl.dr.
8 fluid drachms 1 fluid ounce fl.oz.
20 fluid ounces 1 pint O (octarius)
8 pints 1 gallon C (congius)
1 minim 1 drop
1 tea spoonful 1 fluid drachm or slighlty more
1 dessert-spoonful 2 fluid drachm or slighlty more
4 fluid drachms or 1/2 fluid
1 table-spoonful ounce
1 wine-glassful 1/ to 2 fluid ounces
1 tea-cupful 7 fluid ounces
1 breakfast-cupful 8 fluid ounces
1 tumblerful 11 fluid ounces
1 quart 24 fluid ounces
D.Weight for Solids
1 drachm 60 grains
8 drachms 1 ounce
1 ounce 437.5 grains
1 pound 16 oz. 7000 grains
20 grains 1 scruple
180 grains 1 tola or rupee weight
5 and 5/8 lbs. Av: 1 seer
3 lbs 2 oz Av:
3 lbs 9 oz Tro: 1 viss
1 minim more or less one drop

60 minims 1 drachm
8 drachms 1 ounce
20 ounces 1 pint
8 pints 1 gallon
1 Quart 2 pints
1 Teaspoonful 1 drachm
1 Dessert spoonful 2 drachm
1 Table spoonful 4 drachm
1 Wine glassful 2 1/2 ounces
32 Kunrumanis (Gunjas) = 1 varahanidai
9 Panavedai = 1 varahanidai
1 palam = 10 varahanidai
1 kazhanji = 1 1/4 varahanidai
1 tola =3 1/2 varahanidai
50 palams = 1 Thooku =
1 panavedai approximately 3 kunrumani eda or 5 grains
16 salli edai 1 palam
5 seers of liquid (volume) = 1 Madras measure
1 seer (volume-above) = 40 ounces of water
5. WEIGHTS AND MEASURESI—III
Weights • and measures, especially the domestic mea-sures, vary greatly in size from place to
place, in different coun-tries, and in different localities. The following tables give the standard
figures.
1 grain 1/2 ratti

60 grains 1 drach 4 mashas
8 drachms 1 ounce 1/2 chattak
16 ounces 1 pound 1 seer
1 minim 1/2 ratti

60 minims 1 fluid drachm 4 mashas
8 fluid drachms 1 fluid ounce 1/2 chattak
16 fluid ounces 1 pint 1/2 seer
2 pints 1 quart 1 seer
4 quarts 1 gallon 4 seers
C. Metric Units
1 gram or gramme 15 grains 1 masha
1 Kilogram (kg.) 2.2 pounds 1 seer 1 1/2 chattaks
1 litre 2.2 pounds 1 seer 1 1/2 chattaks
D. Indian Weights
Foreign Equivalent
1 ratti 2 grains or 2 minims
8 rattis 1 masha 15 grains or 1 drachm
12 mashas 1 tola 180 grains or 3 drachms
5 tolas 1 chattak 2 ounces
4 chattaks 1 pao 1/2 pound or 1/2 pint
4 pao or 16 chattak 1 seer 2 pounds or 1 quart
5 seer 1 panseri 10 pounds or 1 1/4 gallon
8 panseres or 40 seers 1 maund 80 pounds or 10 gallon
Indian Equivalent
1 drop 1 minim 1 bond or 1/2 ratti
1 pinch 15 grains 1 masha
1 saltspoonful 1/2 drahcm 2 mashas

1 teaspoonful 1 drachm 4 mashas
1 dessertspoonful
(spoonful) 2 drachms 8 mashas
1 tablespoonful 1 ounce 1/2 chattak
1 eggspoonful 1 ounce 1/2 chattak
1 cupful or teacupful 5 ounces 2 1/2 chattaks
1 breakfastcupful 8 ounces 1/4 seer or 1 pao
1 large cupful 10 ounces 1 /2 ounces 5 chattaks
1 small wine-glassful 2 ounces 3/4 chattak
1 wineglassful 12 ounces 1 chattak
1 glassful chattaks 1 1/2 pao or 6
1 large glassful 1 pint
1 tumblerful 10 ounces 1/2 seer
1 large tumblerful 12-16 ounces 1 1/2 pao to 1/2 seer
1 canful 2 gallons 8 seers
1 large canful 3 gallons 12 seers
1 tubful 30 gallons 3 maunds
APPENDIX-III
SIMPLE VETERINARY TREATMENT AT HOME
Reciprocity is one of the inescapable facts of life. Beings are inter-dependent in this world.
Domestic animals are indis-pensable to man in carrying on the daily business of living. The
horse, the Cow, the goat, the dog, the fowl, have all been part of man's home far back from the
earliest times. In India it is more than ever so, for this land is essentially rural. Without cattle, the
Indian would find life impossible. The Cow is our greatest friend and nourisher. So very
important is this gentle creature that it has been defied by our ancients. A village without cattle
was likened to hell itself. The sacred Go-mata is an object of daily worship, the Go-puja, to the
devout Hindu housewife.
The factors of diet most essential for the health. strength and vitality of the family are got from
the cow. The purest, the richest and the best food is provided by the cow. The health-giving
Vitamins come to us in the form of Milk, Curd, But-ter, Cream, Ghee, Butter-milk, etc. Indeed,
the cow is in fact a Mata or mother as she is the nourisher par excellence to every-one, from the
infant to the old man, in the home. It is therefore the Sacred Duty of man to look after and care
for the cow. The health and welfare of the Cow contributes directly to the health and welfare of
the human beings. Healthy Cows mean a good supply of pure milk, curd, butter, etc. A good
supply of pure milk, curd and butter means well-fed, healthy and strong chil-dren in the home.
Like human beings these domestic animals too have their own peculiar sickness and ailments.
Cows also fall sick. You must know how to treat and cure them in simple cases. Here are some
useful prescriptions that I have given to enable you to treat simple veterinary cases at home. I
need not mention that commonsense sanitary measures are part of cattle-care in any case. The
medicines given below are all simple, easy to make and readily available in the local bazaar.
The dosage for a young calf would be half or one third of that of an adult cow. While treating
remember that you are really doing true Go-Puja.
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE SICK COWS
(1) Tympanites
This is a common complaint The stomach is distended. There is much accumulation of wind.
Much discomfort is felt by the animal. She may refuse food or water and may die soon if not
treated properly.
Re: Oil Turpentine 2 ounces

Asafoetida 2 drop's (dissolved in
2 drops warm water)
Linseed or mustard oil 1 pint.
Mix all the above well and give in a single dose. If no relief is obtained, repeat the dose after 2
hours.
(2) Indigestion or Depraved Appetite
Re: Ammonium Chloride 3 drachms (spoons)

Sodium Chloride 1 ounce
Chiretta 4 drachms
Ginger 4 drachms
Powder all the above and mix well in ½ seer of water. This is the dose to be given every
morning for 4 days.
(3) Diarrhoea
Purging or loose motions is a very troublesome complaint among cattle.
Re: Chalk 1 ounce

Catechu 4 drachms
Opium 30 grains
Ginger 4 drachms
Powder and give one dose in y seer of rice gruel (Hindi: Chaval-ka-maand) for three days.
During treatment do not give drinking water, but give plenty of rice gruel with 1 chhatak of salt
instead of water.
(4) Constipation
Re: Mag. Sulph. 1 pound

Sodi. Chloride 4 ounces
Ginger 1 ounce
Acqua (warm) 2 pints
(5) Cough and Catarrh
Re: Camphor 2 ounces

Ammon. Chloride 4 ounces
Pot. Nitras 4 ounces
Bark of the root of Ark plant
(Calytropis) 2 ounces
Linseed 8 ounces
Treacle or Gur 10 ounces
Round together and mix well 1 Chhatak dose to be given twice a day to the cow. Diet during
treatment should be con-fined to warm Bran mash. Bran is wheat bran.
(6) Fever
Pot. Nitras 3 drachms

Ammon. Chloride 3 drachms
Mag. Sulph 4 ounces
Give in ½ seer of water twice daily.
Note: Normal temperature of cow is: 102 F. taken in the rectum.

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INDEX

Introductory: The Indian Medicinal Herbs

Abrus Leaves Extract

Cooling Bathing Oil

The Gum and the Twig

Babul Bark Decoction

The Uses of Leaves

The Uses of Juice

Ajowan: It’s Usefulness

Its Properties and Preparations

It’s Properties & Uses

Uses of Arai Keerai

For Wind and Colic Bowels

A Good Digestive Powder

Asafoetida Ear Drops

For Scorpion Sting

Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-1

Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-2

Aswagandha Choorna (Powder)-3

Aswaagandhadi Pills 5-Grains

Atis with Honey

Atis Co. Decoction

Compound Atis Powder

A Reputed Ayurvedic Medicine For Leucoderma

The Seeds, The Oil, The Tablet

A Nutritive Food for the Anaemic

Manifold Utility of Barley Water

Pearl Barley and the Powder

Uses of the Half-Ripe Fruit

Uses of the Unripe Fruit

The Pulp, The Leaf & The Root

Uses of the Leaf

Betel Leaf-Ginger Juice

Betel Juice and Golochan

Powder for Diarrhoea

Areca Nut Decoction

Areca Nut Tooth Powder

Compound Areca Nut Tooth Powder

Areca Root Decoction

For Round and Thread-Worms

Properties and Uses

Pepper Tulsi Tea

For Growing Hair

Bonduc Seed Powder

Bonduc Seed Powder with Asafoetida

Bonduc Leaf Poultice

Description and Uses

The Leaf and the Seed

For Round-worm, Tape-worm, Ulcers

The Powder, The Leaves and The Gum

For Cobra Poison

Decoction of Butea Leaves

Butea Root (Palas-ka-ark)

Butea Bark (For Snake Bite)

Butea Gum Powder (Bengal Kino)

Its Medicinal Qualities

The Many Uses

Properties and Contents

29. Caraway Seeds

Caraway Digestive Powder