OCIMUM BASILICUM;O. Anisatum or Basilicum Citratum-

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Ayurvedic cure gonorrhoea, piles , Sans.----Bisva tulasi; Varavara; Manjariki. (seeds Rehan . Fr,----Basilic Cultive. Eng:----Sweet Basil, Ger----Basilien-kraut, Hind.----Babui, Cash.----Hazbo. Duk.----Sabza-Ben.----Babui-tulasi. Pers.----Pharanjamushk. Tel.----Bhu-tulasi; Vebudipatri. Tam----Tirunirupachhai; Karandai Can. & Kon.----Kam kasturi, Mah----Ram-tulasi; Tirunitri. Burm,----Kala pingain. Habitat----This small shrub, indigenous to Persia and Sindh, is cultivated in gardens in India. Parts Used----The herb and seeds. Constituents:----The leaves contain a yellowish green essential oil which if kept for a time crystallizes and is then known as Basil-camphor. The essential oil contains a new terpene. Action----Diaphoretic, carminative and stimulant The seeds are mucilaginous, demulcent and diuretic. The juice of the plant is anthelmintic. Uses.----The whole plant is aromatic; the leaves and leafy tops have a pungent taste and clove-like odour. The seeds are useful in catarrh, chronic diarrrhoea, dysentery, gonorrhoea, nephritis, and internal piles; they also reli-eve the after pains of parturition; they have an aphrodi-siac property and the dose is from 1 to 3 drachms; steep-ed in water they swell into a mucilaginous jelly; and this is taken with the addition of sugar in the above-named diseases. The following compound powder of seeds is recom-mended for dysentery in Jauhar Hikmat.----Take of seeds of Ocimum pilosum 5 tolas, seeds of Murd 3? tolas, Bar Tung (Plantago psyllium), Simeg(Arabic), Gile Armani (Armenian Bolos), Tukhm Khushhas (Poppy seeds), each 3| tolas, Tukhm khurfa (Portulaca oleraceae) Tukhm Khimaz, & Nishashta each 1? tolas. Mix and make a powder. Dose is 8 to 12 mashas. The juice of the leaves is dropped into the ear in earache and dullness of hearing. Mixed with a little ginger and black pepper the leaf-juice is given during the cold stages of ague. The leaves dried and powdered and used like snuff are said to dislodge maggots from the nose. A 12 per cent decoction, of the plant used as irrigation in nasal myosis produces anaesthesia and acts as a parasiticide and antiseptic, so that the larvae which cause the disease are rendered in-active and expelled. It has long been in use in Bengal with like effect for a similar affection known as Pinash----(K. L. Dey). The following is recommended for asthma by Bhishagratna J. L. Duveji.----Take in equal parts each of long Zedoary, stem of the Lily, Gulancha, Cinnamon, Basil leaves, cardamom, Cyperus rotundus, long pepper, Costus specious, Phyllanthus niruri, dried ginger, Bhimseni camphor and black eagle-wood, and pound them in a mortar and sift through a clean piece of cloth and mix double the quantity of sugar. Dose is « a tola to be taken morning and evening,

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