GYNANDROPSIS PENTAPHYLLA.

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Cure for Otalgia and Catarrhal Inflammations Sans.----Arkapushpika; Suryavarta. Eng.----Caravalla seeds, Hind.----Hurhur. Ben----Arkahuli; Sada hurhuria. Mah Hulhul; Mabli Kalvana. Tel----Vantinta; Velakura. Tamn.----Velai; Naivela. Can.----Shrikala:Val.----Karvela, Sind.----Bighara Bona.----Kanphuti: Mhoti tilavana. lion.----Shirkal. Habitat:----This annual plant, common on cultivated ground, is met with in the warmer parts of India. Parts Used:----The seeds, leaves and root. Constituents.----The plant contains an acrid fixed an acrid volatile oil similar in properties to garlic or mustard oil. Action----Seeds are antispasmodic, sudorific, anthel mintic and carminative. Bruised leaves are rubefacient vesicant. UseS The small kidney----shaped black seeds resemble those of Cleome Viscosa. The plant has an odour much resembling asafoetida but comparatively delicate. The bruised leaves applied produce copious exudation and afford the relief obtained from a blister, without its inconveniences. The powdered seeds, in doses of 30 grains to one drachm, are administered inter. nally, for the expulsion of round worms, combined with sugar, twice daily forr two days and followed on the third morning by a dose of castor oil. They are also useful in cases of sprains, etc. For this the seeds are boiled or roasted in about two tablespoonfuls of ghee and the whole added to 1 seer of water mixed with a pinch of salt, and taken in a single draught. Bruised with vinegar, lime----juice or hot water, they van be made into a plaster or poultice for external application. The black seeds as well as the leaves are administered in decoction in convulsive affections and typhus fever in doses of four ounces. The juice of the leaves is used as an ano dyne instillation for relief of pain in otalgia and catarrhal inflammations of the middle ear; but it produces a burning sensation. The leaves are applied to boils to prevent the formation of pus.

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