EMBELIA RIBBS; E-Indica; E. Glandulifera; & E. Robusta-

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Ayurvedic cure for Aphthae and Indolent Ulcers Sans.----Vidanga; Vrishanasana; Chitra-tandula. Hind.----Baberang. Ben.----Biranga. Guz. & Hind.----Karkannie. Tel; & Tarn.----Vayu; Vilamg-an. Mah.----Vavading-a. Bom.----Amti. Ambat; Vaivarang-. Car.----Vayubaliga, Nepal.----Himalcheri. Cing,----Umbelia. Arab & Pers.----Birangi-i-Kabuli. Habitat:----These climbers are found in the hilly parts of India from the Central and Lower Himalaya down to Ceylon and Singapore. Parts Used.----The berries, the leaves and root-bark. Constituents:----Eoibelic eeid, a volatile and fixed oil, colouring matter, tannin, a resinoid body and an alkaloid called Ghristembine. Crystalline compounds of embeiic acid with soda, potash, and ammonia are obtained. Action----She fruits or dried berries are carminative, anthelmintic, stimulant and alterative. The pulp is purgative. The fresh juice is cooling, diuretic and laxative. Preparations----Decoction (1 in 10), dose:----« to 1 ounce; Liquid Extract, dose:----1 to 4 drachms; Powder, dose:----1 to 4 drachms; Paste; Confection; Ammonium embelate (a salt), dose:----3 to 6 grains. Uses----^he dried berries are useful as powder, preferably of E. Robusta to expel intestinal worms especially tape-worms. For a child a drachm of the powder mixed with a few drops of pure honey twice in the day is the dose. The Ammonium embelate in doses of 3 grains is also effective; it is given with a little honey or syrup, preceded and followed by a dose of castor oil-The powder may be given also with an infusion of the seeds. The worm is expelled dead. The drug is said to be a substitute for male fern, better than male-fern as it is not so griping as male-fern. The berries are also supposed to prevent flatulence and useful in dyspepsia; a few berries or their powder is put into the milk given to children. The fruit of E. Robusta is given internally for piles. A paste of the seed is used locally iu ringworm and other skin diseases. The young leaves of the plant combined with ginger are used as a gargle in sorethroat, aphthae and indolent ulcers of the mouth. The dried bark of the root is a reputed remedy for toothache. A paste of the bark is a valuable application to the chest in lung diseases like pneumonia etc; in such cases rice-conjee in which this bark is boiled is given internally. The berries crushed and mixed with butter is an ointment applied to the forehead in headaches. This drug enters into the composition of several applications for ringworm and other skin diseases, for example:----Take of Baherang, rock salt, chebulic myrobalan, vakuchi (Vernonia anthelmin-tioa) mustard, turmuric and the seeds of Pongamia glabra (Karanja) equal parts and make them into a thin paste with cows urine (Chakradatta). Vidanga Taila composed of embelia ribes, Croton tiglium and and Carbonate of sodium is applied to the forehead or dropped into the nose for relieving headache or hemicrania.

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