Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturalist's nomenclature / by Whitelaw Ainslie.

  • Whitelaw Ainslie
Date:
1813
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Credit: Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturalist's nomenclature / by Whitelaw Ainslie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Catgamoorginn NuooroG (Tel,) CALA^IUS DRACO. Willden, 'Z’his article woiiUl seem to be often confounded wicb Kino, I)y tlie Native Doctors ; 8S both, on being presented to a Hakeem, get the name of Dummulack wayii, and liotb, on being shewn to a Vyiian, are called Kandamoorgarittiuw, 'Miey mutnally consider it as astringent; which, Doctor Duncan (Junior) tells us, the true Dragon’s blood is not: and this mistake is, perhaps, owing to the Indian Practitioners baving, like Mr. Proust, not sufficiently distinguished betwixt the two substances. I am inclined to think, how- ever, that genuine Kino is but partially known in the Peninsula of Intiia. The Dra- gon's blood which is met with in the bazars of this country, is hrougiit fiom Kang Kew, and also from Passier(on the coast of Horneo)wlieie Mr, Elmore, (1.) in his very valuable “Directory and guide to the trade and navigation of the Indian and China seas, says it is to he procured of a finer quality than in any other part of the world, 'J'he 'J'amool Physicians recommend a solution of this snl)8tance in arrack, as an external application to the head ant] temples in cases of Syncope, and extreme languors. ELDER, COMMON. (Arab.) S.AMBUCUS NIGRA. Lm. This tree is not known in India, but the .Arabians and Syrians are vt'ell acquainted with it, and consider the inner green baikof its trunk as aperient, alexij)barmic ant! deobstruent. ELECAMPANE. Ussululrasun (Arab.)— beclshamst fPERS ) INULA HELENIUM. Lin. This jilant is not to be met with in India, and has only got a place here from having been found in the Materia Medica of the Arabians, who rank its root amongst tlieir Alokerebat (Vesicatoria) and Adviyaheezeh, (Stomacbica,) and in that of the Japanese, who consider it as stomachic. EUPHORBIUM. Shuddrayhullte paal S?(5vT'C\rf’uJLJrT<TV3 (TaM.) ■Suyndka Hind ) . EUPHORBIA ANTIQUORUM. Lin. ■ U/ceilNefssk (Arab ) This very drastic cathartic, which has lately been exploded from the British Materia Metlica, is used by the Native Practitioners, when boiled with a small quantity of gin- gilie oil. as an external ap|>lication in certain rheumatic aflfections ; they also employ it to deaden the pain of the tooth-ache. Internally, it is administered by them as a purge, in obstinate visceral obstructions ; and in those cases of costiveness which so often at- tend an enlargement and induration of the sjileen and liver. The plant which produces this substance, grows wild in almost every part of India, and differs in nothing from that found in Morocco (2.) and in the deserts of Lyhia. Its 'i'amool name is Shtiddray- calliej in Sanscrit it is TidhaiS; the Malays call it Sudusudu, and the Arabians Z6ko >m* FEBRIFUGE (1) Ser his Jf^oik, page 29. (2.) PVtiere the plant is called Dtrgmuse, See Mr. J, G. Jackson's account o/ (la Empire of Morocco, page 81.