BARRINGTONIA RACEMOSA.

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Treatment for Asthma and Diarrhea . Sans:----Vishaya; Samudrapad; Samstravadi. Ben.----Samudraphal Kon. & Can.----Nivar. Tam.----Sametrapalam, Mai.----Samudra-pad. Guz. & Hind----Norvishee. Pers.----Jadvar. Habitat----Sea coast----Konkan. Parts Used.----The root and fruit or seed. Preparations.----Infusion of root (1 in 10), dose.----2 to 6 drachms. Powder and Paste of the seeds. Action and Uses.----The root is similar to cinchona in medicinal virtues. It is deobstruent and cooling. The fruit is efficacious in coughs, asthma and diarrhea, The pulverized fruit is used, like the preceeding drug as a snuff in hemicrania and combined with other remedies it is appli-ed externally in diseases of the skin. The seeds (fruits) are aromati‡ and useful in colic given in milk and also in parturition; in ophthalmia they are applied as collyrium in the form of thin paste prepared in pure cow?s ghee. Barringtonia Speciosa----See Mammea Asiatica.

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