Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturist's nomenclature / [Sir Whitelaw Ainslie].

  • Whitelaw Ainslie
Date:
1813
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Credit: Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturist's nomenclature / [Sir Whitelaw Ainslie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . 3 3 > ee : f | ‘ : hat as’ wedo, incases 6f erbels digestion ; particularly in that species) of Dyspensia they call sirnd {7aivoo, the leadi of which is wind i be ey ca né ¥aivoo, ths leading symptom of which is wind in the stomaoh, » ®. ay ha e ‘ ? 2) t , ’ a , 3 “apy e oF) > >», ‘y ) 2 - : + we 587 00n | (Dux? ans ARAB.) — Tuckir (Hinp) wancisaneen Chop poo Tatakeo (Tev,)+———ASARUM EUROPAZUM, Lin, The appellation Asaroon, which has been given to this article by the Araker and, bestowed on it by the Syrians, in whose country the plant, at one time, plentifully grew, and whence the dried root and leaves are- now, in all probability, brought in small quantities-to these provinces; . . . The Eindoos of higher Hindoostan, like the Tamools, occasionally prescribe it as a powerful evacuant of bile ; they also employ the bruised leaves as an external applica- asa sternutatory, BALM;:.ARABIAN,. . Parsie Cunjamkoray ‘Loree eos GErRCS ror <Tin,) ———— Mekka subza 8 jAns aS ; (Duk.) ————Bucklutulfaristum( Aras.) own mnee Badrunjbuyeh (Pers.)————MELISSA OFFICINALIS. Van. | some sich Mahometans, and-was originally brought from Arabia, f ; (Tam) ——~——: Lovbanie: Ood S4S¢ gilog] (Duk,) papery a Loov’an (Hinv.) — si YRAX BENZOIN.. tne Comninjun (Mavay.). BENZOIN,. 2n- SORT. Sambranie- Frlols Moor (Tas): a Sas Oi amen aan eae oe Lavaus, Lin:~ There are two sorts of Benzoin distinguished in India ; .the finest- and dearest af which the Tamools call Malacca Sambranie, and the Mahometans Loobanie Ood: to that of Od. Moomina, in his Moofurdaat, tells us:that Ood-and Looban are synory- mous in Persia, but that the latter term ig most-in use in the. common bazars. ‘The and Qi) See Marsden's Sumatta; poge 123. | , )