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Sunday, 02 July 2006 |
Treatment for Dyspepsia and Chronic Diarrhea
is a Legu. minons species found throughout India. It grows on hard stony ground too difficult to be rooted. The plant yielded gum, a trace of albumen and coloring matter, ash containing a trace of manganese; brown resin and chloro" phyll and a principle allied to quercetin or quercitrin. It is described as deobstruent and diuretic useful in cough, asthma and tightness of the chest; the powder of the root is smoked in Hookah or Chilmi. The root ground into paste with turmuric and rice water or cows milk is applied to scrofulous glands; a powder of the root is also used as a snuff. A decoction of the root with pepper powder added is given in bilious febrile attacks, enlargement and obstruction of the liver, spleen and kidneys. For hepatic dropsy, the root ground in butter.milk is given. The root is also recommended for boils, pimples, abscesses especially carbuncles on the back, as tonic and laxative and as purifier of blood. Its leaves in combination with the leaves of Cannabis lndica in the proportion of 2 to 1 respectively or its root ground in curds is a remedy for bleeding piles, and with black-pepper it acts as diuretic
in gonorrhoea. The root in decoction is given in dyspepsia and chronic diarrhea, and as a wash for the mouth. The root powdered and mixed with honey is applied to ulcers. The root-bark ground and made into a pill with black pepper is very benefioial in obstinate colic. A powder of the root taken with water for about a month is said to cure enlarged scrotum. An infusion of the seeds is employed as an anthelmintic for children. For itch, scabies etc., the oil of the seeds is a specific remedy. For tumours the ashes of the plant mixed with the powder of chebulic myrobalan, in equal parts is administered in doses of 1 drachm. The seeds of the white variety are said to be beneficial in the poison of rat; the root is said to be an antidote to snake.bite. |
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