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
326. _In Tic Douloureux and Rheumatic Faceache_, Sal Ammoniac
occasionally proves very useful. Two drachms in six ounces of water
should be taken in divided doses (1½ ounce for a dose), every four
hours, till relief is obtained: if the pain does not yield after the
four doses, no benefit can be expected from persevering with it. _Other
forms of Neuralgia_, as _Sciatica_ and _Lumbago_, have also been found
to yield to it, when administered early in the attack.
327. _In Chronic Rheumatism, especially when the muscles are mainly
affected_, Sal Ammoniac, in doses of 15 to 24 grains, with infusion of
Country Sarsaparilla (163), proves highly serviceable; but it is even
more effectual in relieving those _Muscular pains of the Chest_ and
other parts of the trunk so often met with in the overworked and
underfed portion of the working classes in large cities. In these cases
it requires to be persevered in for some time.
328. _Hysterical, Nervous, and Bilious Headaches_ are often greatly
benefited, or disappear altogether, under the use of this salt in doses
of 10 to 20 grains twice or thrice daily, dissolved in Camphor Julep.
The earlier in the attack it is given, the greater are the chances of
its proving effectual.
329. _In Chronic Coughs, especially in those of old age_, a mixture of a
drachm of Sal Ammoniac, two ounces of syrup of country Liquorice (6),
and four ounces of Water, in doses of one ounce five or six times a day,
occasionally proves serviceable. In doses of from 1 to 5 grains,
according to the age of the child, conjoined with a few grains of
powdered Cinnamon, it has been found useful in _Hooping Cough_; it is
inferior in efficacy to Alum, but may be commenced with safety and
advantage at a much earlier period in the attack.
330. _In Hæmorrhage from the Lungs, Stomach, and other Internal Organs_,
it is worthy of a trial if other more effectual agents are not at hand.
In these cases, two drachms should be dissolved in a pint of _conjee_
water, and a wineglassful given every second or third hour, according to
the severity of the case. The patient should be kept quiet, cool, and in
the recumbent posture.
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