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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    it to the calcine:!, in cases of P^die (Lienterv), and Pittie Eyivoo (Heart burn), as also in hiitnnh I)nx/tum ('I'yplius). Pearls are brought to these provinces from the southern extremity of the Peninsula from the bay of Condatchy on Ceylon, from the Gulph of Persia near the BabrHl isles ami from the Sooloo islands, amongst which they are found in great abundance and of the finest quality. PELLlTOR'i , OF SPAIN. ^kkaraca>um ^kurkurhu (Arab, and Duu.) ANTHEMIS PYKETHltUM. Lin. This root is to be found in most of the Indian bazars, though I cannot learn that the plant grows in this country. 1 am tbeiefore, inclined to think that the medicine is brought to these provinces from the more northern parts of Africa, where rve know that it is produced. With regard toils Asiatic names there is this singularity, that the Taniool, Arabic, and Dukhanie ap])ellations are nearly the same. 'I'he Vytians prescribe an infusion of in conjunction with the Lesser Galangal and Ciinger, as a cordial and stimulant, in the lethargic stage of Typhus fever, and iu Paralytic affections. They also use it as a masticatory for the tooth-ache. PEPPER, BLACK. Mcllogkoe (Hind, and Duk,)- V Atfa/i (Pers.) •Maricha (Sans.) 1, (V(j'.rr 0- (Tam.) Kalhuirchle —. Fi'ijil UiU'ud (Arab.)' ——— Filfil PIPER NIGRUM. Lin. Th is is well known to be produced in so many of the eastern islands and countries, that it is needless to enumerate them 5 but it is no where found of a superior qualify to that which grow’s on the Malabar coast. As a medicine, black Pepper is used by the Native Doctors as a stomachic, and stimulant ; (I.) they also prepare with it a kind of liniment, which they suppose to have sovereign virtues in chronic Rheumatism. The Malays call this article Lada, the Javanese iUarUio^ ' Laal mirckit FEPPER, CAY^ENNE. MoUdgkai 37,tLL1 (Tam*) —— .Laal 7nlrch (Hind.) Merdpakailoo (Tel,) ’Brdhn Marlthd (Sans.) —CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS. Lin. This article, called red, or Cayenne, Pepper, by the English in India, is not obtained from the Capsicum /dnnuum, which Dr* Fleming tells us is not a native of this country, bill from the Capsicum Frutcscens, or Biid Pepper, (Cliillie plant,) which is cultivated in every part of Hindoostan. As a medicine, the Native Practitioners use much red Peji])er, .as a stomachic and stimulant. PEPPER, (I.) infusion made, with black Pepper that has hcr7i toasted, the TCatives often prescribe i« cases of Cholera Morbus ; urtd J huue kuoiun it put a stop to the xomiting, tvhe/i many other rei/udics had failed.