GARCINIA MANGOSTANA.

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Home remedy for Dysentery, Gargle in Tonsillitis Eng.----The Mangosteen. Ger,----Maogostane. Hind. & Ben.----Mangustin. Bom. Guz, & Mah.----Mangostin; Mengut. Mai.----Mangusta. Burm.----Mengkop; Mengut. Malay.---- Mangusta. Kon.----Tavir. Fr----Mangostan. Habitat----A native of the Straits Settlements and Singapore cultivated in British Burma, Malayan Peninsula and the Madras Presidency. Farts Used----The rind and pulp of the fruit, leaves and bark. Constituents,----The rind contains mangostin, resin and tannin. Mangostin is obtained by boiling the rind in water, and tannin is removed by exhausting by boiling in alcohol and evaporating; the resulting product is mangostin and resin; the resin is precipitates by redis solving it in alcohol and water, and evaporating the water. It occurs in small yellow scales, tasteless, neutral insoluble in water, but readily soluble in alcohol and ether. Action:----The rind is a powerful astringent; so also are the bark and young leaves. Preparations:----(all of the rind);----Extract, dose----3 to 10 grains; Tincture (1 in 10), dose----«-to 1 drachm; Syrup (1 in 5), dose---- to 1 drachm; Decoction (1 in 10). dose:----4 ounces; Powder, dose----10 to 60 grains: and Juice. UseS----The rind and pulp or entire dried fruit are employed as specific remedies in chronic diarrhea and dysentery) usually in the form of a syrup, the drug being boiled in water, strained and the decoction evaporated to a suitable consistence and then sugar added. A decoction of the rind with a little cumin and coriander added is also useful in doses of 4 ounces twice a day with or without the addition of 5 to 10 minims of tincture of opium to each dose; sugar or syrup may also be added to it just to make it palatable. MangosteenyVwiit may also be employed in powder given in doses of 10 to 15 grains in port wine, or made into a paste with a little sugar;in either form it may be improved by the addition of aromatics, such as cardamom and cinnamon powder 5 to 10 grains to each dose. The fruit is regarded as a remedy in leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea and gleet and is stated to lessen both the irritation and the discharge of matter. A compound powder consisting of Mangostin, cubebs, alum and gum acacia, each 10 grains, is a good sedative for gonorrhoea. For injection a strong astringent decoction is employed. The juice is used locally as a gargle in tonsillitis and as a lotion in prolapsus ani and vaginae. The following compound powders are very useful remedies;----(1) Take of Maneosteen (the rind of the fruit) 5, Poppy seeds 4, Sugar 6, Pomegranate bark 5 and Hose petals & parts: mix and make a powder; dose:----10 to 20 grains; useful in dysentery and chronic diarrhea in children. (2) Take of Mangosteen 6, Coriander seeds 2, Chebulio myrobalans (Bala haritaki) 2 & Indian sweet fennel seeds 2 parts; mix and make a powder; dose;----10 grains with sugar; nseful in chronic dysentery.

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