Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India: With a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites &c. — John Shaqi
Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India: With a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites &c.Waring, Edward John
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Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India: With a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites &c.
Waring, Edward John
Botany, Medical -- India; Materia medica, Vegetable -- India; Medicinal plants -- India; Traditional medicine -- India
72. _In Spermatorrhœa, and in all involuntary Seminal discharges_, few
medicines are more generally useful than Camphor in doses of four grains
with half a grain of Opium, taken each night at bedtime. _In Gonorrhœa_,
to relieve that painful symptom, _Chordee_, the same prescription is
generally very effectual; but it may be necessary to increase the
quantity of Opium to one grain, and it is advisable to apply the Camphor
Liniment (68) along the under surface of the penis as far back as the
anus. _To relieve that distressing Irritation of the Generative Organs
which some women suffer from so severely_, it will be found that five or
six grains of Camphor taken in the form of pill twice or three times
daily, according to the severity of the symptoms, will sometimes afford
great relief. In each of these cases it is important to keep the bowels
freely open.
73. _In Painful Affections of the Uterus_ Camphor in six or eight grain
doses often affords much relief. The Liniment (68) should at the same
time be well rubbed into the loins. _In the Convulsions attendant on
Childbirth_, the following pills may be tried: Camphor and Calomel, of
each five grains. Beat into a mass with a little honey, and divide into
two pills; to be followed an hour subsequently by a full dose of castor
oil or other purgative.
74. _In the advanced stages of Fever_, _Small Pox_, and _Measles_, when
the patient is low, weak, and exhausted, and when there are at the same
time delirium, muttering, and sleeplessness, three grains of Camphor
with an equal quantity of Asafœtida, may be given even every third hour;
Turpentine stupes (362) or Mustard poultices (247) being applied at the
same time to the feet or over the region of the heart. It should be
discontinued if it causes headache or increased heat of the scalp. Its
use requires much discrimination and caution.
75. _To Prevent Bed Sores_, it is advisable to make a strong solution of
Camphor in _arrack_ or brandy, and with this night and morning to bathe,
for a few minutes, the parts which from continued pressure are likely to
become affected. _Gangrenous or Sloughing Ulcerations_ often sensibly
improve, and heal under the local application of powdered Camphor.
76. +Capsicum.+ The ripe dried fruit of Capsicum fastigiatum, _Blume_.
Lál-mirch, Gách-mirch (_Hind._), Mirchí, Lál-mirchí (_Duk._),
Lal-morich, Lanká-morich (_Beng._), Lal-mirch (_Punj._), Mirch-wángun
(_Kash._), Mulagáy, Milagáy (_Tam._), Mirapa-káya (_Tel._),
Kappal-melaka (_Mal._), Ménashiná-káyi (_Can._), Mir-singá (_Mah._),
Lál-mirich, Marchu (_Guz._), Miris (_Cing._), Náyu-si (_Burm._),
Chalie, Loda-cheena (_Malay_).
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