LAGENARIA VULGARIS.

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Ayurvedic cure for Jaundice, Coughs Sans.----Katu----tumbi; Tikta----tumbi; (sweet) Alabu, Fr. Gourde. Ger,----Flaschenkurbis. Eng,----The bitter bottle---- gourd; (sweet) white pumpkin. Hind.----Lauki; Jangli----khaddu; (sweet) Khaddu. Ben.----Tikta lana; Lau; Kodu, Guz. Kadwitumbade or bopla, Afv/z.----Ran----bhopla; (sweet) Dudhya bhopla. Per.----Kaddu. Tel,----Chiti----Anab, Surakaya. Tam,. Sorai kay. Can.----Kahisore. Mal.----Anapa----kai; Katuchuram Kon.----Kadu duddi; (sweet) Duddi. Habitat----This climbing plant is found wild and cultivated nearly all over India. Parts Used.----The seeds, seed----oil and pulp of the fruit. Action.----The fruits and leaves are edible; the leaves are purgative, The white pulp of the fruit of the culti vated variety is sweet and edible and cooling, diuretic and antibilious; while that of the smaller wild variety is bitter, emetic and drastic purgative like colocynth. The oil from the seeds is cooling. The seeds are nutritive and diuretic. Tees.----The seeds yield a clear limpid oil which forms an emillient application for the head and to relieve headache. It is also administered internally. The pulp of the cultivated forms is occasionally employed as an adjunct to purgatives, and also as ingredient in carious con fections; it is useful in coughs, and as an antidote to certain poisons. Externally the pulp is applied as a poultice and a cooling application to the shaved head in delirium and to the soles in `burning of the feet". The bitter fruit burnt into ashes and mixed with honey forms a nice applioation to eyes for night blindness. The juice of the fruit boiled with Sirsael (sweet oil) in equal parts till the juice is all absorbed in the oil, forms an appli cation to scrofulous glands. This is recommended in ILAJUL----GURBA for application to the head in cases of delirium. For insomnia it recommends an oil extracted from the seeds of Lettuce, Pumpkin, Watermelon and Poppy in equal parts for rubbing on the head. And for atrophic Rhinitis the same recommends the instillation of a few drops of the juice of the bitter pumpkin. For vaginal contraction the seeds of pumpkin and lodhra both ground down with water form a useful lccal application. The leaves of pumpkin are recommended to be taken in the form of decoction with sugar for jaundice.

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