CAESALPINIA BONDUC.

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Herbal treatment Hydrocele and Leprosy Sans.----Latakaranja; Putikaranja; Kubherakshi. Eng.----Molucca Bean; Bonduc seed; Physic nut; Fever nut. Hind.---- Sagar-ghota; Kalkaranj; Katkaliji. Ben.----Dahara; Nata-karanja; Natar-pha!. Duk.----Gutchha. Tel.----Gatchkaya; Yalakhi. Tam.----Kalarkodi; Mulal; Kalangu. Can.----Gajike-kayi. Mal.----Kalanchikuru. Kon. & Mah.----Gajago. Guz.----Kakachia; Gajga. Fr.----Bonduc jaune; Guilandina bonduc. Habitat.----A climbing shrub common throughout India. Parts Used.----The seeds or nuts, root, bark and Constituents.----The seeds yield a non-alkaloidal, bitter principle soluble in alcohol anil chloroform and called Natin but the active principle is said to occur more in the bark of the root. The seeds also contain an oil. Action.----The nuts and the root bark are antiperiodic, antispasmodic, bitter-tonic, anthelmintic and febrifuge. The powdered seed acts as tonic. The leaves are consi-dered deobstruent and emmenagogue. The root is a gastric tonic. Preparations.----Powder, oil and ointment. Uses.----The seeds or nuts and the root-bark are valuable in simple, continued and intermittant fevers, in asthma, colic, etc. Dose is 10 to 30 grains of the powdered seed or kernel with an equal quantity of powdered black pepper; of the root-bark the dose is 10 to 15 grains. The powdered seed smoked in a hucca is said to cure colic; mixed with warm butter-milk and asafoetida it acts as tonic in dyspepsia. The burnt seeds with alum and burnt arecanut is a good dentifrice useful in spongy gums, gum boils etc. A cake made of 30 grains of powdered kernel, the contents of an egg and fried in ghee is said to be a valuable remedy taken twice a day in cases of acute oichitis, ovaritis and scrofula. The ointment made from the seeds with castor oil forms an excellent application to hydrocele, acute-orchitis and glandular swellings. The tender leaves are efficacious in disorders of the liver and the oil expressed from them is useful in convulsions, palsy and similar ner-vous complaints. The tender leaves boiled with castor oil or ghee and thickly applied on painful and swollen testi-cles are found to be very efficacious. The oil expressed from the seeds is a remedy in discharges from the ear; it is aiso used as an embrocation in rheumatism; the seeds are roasted and powdered and given internally in hydrocele and leprosy also. C‘salpinia Bonducella is an allied species resemb-ling C. Bonduc. Medicinally both the species are used for the same purpose.

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