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
367. TURPENTINE OINTMENT is prepared by melting together at a gentle
heat one ounce of Oil of Turpentine, 60 grains of White or Black Dammar
(372), half an ounce of Yellow Wax, and half an ounce of Kokum Butter.
The ingredients, when melted together, should be removed from the fire,
and the mixture constantly stirred whilst cooling. It constitutes a good
stimulant application to _Indolent and ill-conditioned Ulcerations_,
_&c._ Diluted with equal parts of _ghee_, it forms a highly useful
dressing for _Carbuncles_, aiding the separation of sloughs, and
stimulating to healthy action. It should be changed twice or thrice
daily. Its action is aided by generous diet, &c., as mentioned in Index,
Art. _Carbuncle_. Some _Chronic Skin Diseases_ improve under the use of
the undiluted ointment, but in those of the _Hairy Scalp of Parasitic
origin_, the pure oil, locally applied, according to Erlach
(_Practitioner_, Oct. 1871), more surely and more rapidly than any other
remedy.
367_b_. +Tylophora, or Country Ipecacuanha.+ Tylophora asthmatica, _W.
et A._
Antá-múl, Janglí-pikván (_Hind._), Pit-kárí (_Duk._), Anto-mul
(_Beng._), Nach-churuppán, Náy-pálai, Péyp-pálai (_Tam._), Verri-pála,
Kukka-pála (_Tel._), Valli-pála (_Mal._), Bin-nuga (_Cing._).
368. This plant is common in sandy localities in Bengal and other parts
of India. Its roots and leaves possess valuable emetic properties; the
former, as met with in the bazaars, occurs in the form of thick,
contorted pieces of a pale colour, and a bitterish, somewhat nauseous
taste. As an emetic, and especially as a remedy in dysentery, it has
long been in repute, but it has been superseded by the dried leaves, the
operation of which has been found more uniform and certain; in fact,
they are justly regarded as one of the best indigenous substitutes for
Ipecacuanha. The dose of the powdered dried leaves as an emetic for an
adult is from 40 to 50 grains; in smaller doses, four to eight grains,
its action is that of an expectorant and diaphoretic.
369. _In Dysentery and Diarrhœa_, even in the earliest stages, and
whilst fever is present, it may be given in doses of 10 to 15 grains
three or four times daily, conjoined with mucilage, and opium if
required; or it may be commenced in one large dose in the same way as
Ipecacuanha (see _Index_). If the dysentery be connected with
intermittent fever, or be of malarious origin, it should be combined
with quinine.
370. _In Chronic Bronchitis_, _Coughs_, _Colds_, _and the_ _early stage
of Hooping Cough_, it has been administered with manifest benefit as an
expectorant and diaphoretic, in doses of five grains thrice daily or
oftener, either alone or combined with Syrup or Country Liquorice (6).
371. +Vateria Indica+, _Linn._, +Resin of+. Piney, or White Dammar.
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