The Taleef shereef, or, Indian materia medica / translated from the original by George Playfair.

Date:
1833
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Credit: The Taleef shereef, or, Indian materia medica / translated from the original by George Playfair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sp. Ch. Annual, glaucous, villous, ‘superior leaflets filiform, both general and partial, involucra, about 6 leaved.” Bitter and pun- gent, lirht and heating, increases appetite, induces costiveness, and strengthens the vital energy; increases the seminal secretion, and removes pains and other disorders, the consequence of colds ; beneficial in nausea, is vermifuge, relieves hiccup, and is useful in Dysuria, but it produces heat in the abdomen. It is called Curu/s, but it is only a variety of this, and is something betwixt that and Aniseed, though this may be owing to the difference of cultivation. #3 ADJWAIN کا جواندیں‎ Anise Seed. In Arabic, Ancesoon. Pimpi- nella Anisum, Linn. > Ujwain. The seed of a plant of the Dill kind, Taylor. Ligusticum Adjwaen, Roxb. Sp. Ch. annual, erect, leaves super de compound, with filiform leaflets, ridges and furrows of the seeds distinct and scabrous. This is what is recommended to notice by Dr. Percival, under the name Ajava seed.” A species of the above, of which there are two kinds, one of which is called Juhar ; both are bitter, pungent, and aromatic ; it resembles the Ajmode, but is smaller, and has a strong aromatic scent. It assists digestion, improves appetite, is useful in rheuma- tism and catarrhal affections ; is vermifuge, beneficial in dropsy, dispels flatulence, and is highly extolled in flatulent cholic. A. Nanchoa. 24 ADJWAIN ا | .اجوانیں‎ niger, Linn. Black Hen- 2° K HORASANEE ۔خراسانی‎ bane. Narcotic. Corrector, Vinegar.” _ This plant grows thick from the root, and is covered with a hairy down. The seeds are contained within a hard thick shell, and the leaves are like those of the pomegranate flower. The pod is filled with seeds of a small irregular shape. There is a plant called Hulbeh, which resembles this, but is smaller. <A. Buzurulbunje- 26 Ansan w)(>]-—Or Adjain, a large tree, with wide spreading branches, in size approaching that of the mangoe; its leaves growing close, and also resembling those of the mangoe tree, but longer and thinner ; the fruit is about 14 foot long, and very thin. ۶۲ “کے اخررنتا ویو مھ‎ The Walnut, Juglans regia, Linn.” This is anative of hilly countries ; its leaves are like the Terpat ; the fruit 0
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