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

  • Whitelaw Ainslie
Date:
1813
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    d d , 9 “J B +) M 2 J / 2? 9 F ) } wits ee Wi, ie 1 : . +E s : x Jf Car. Te See. 1] OF HINDOOSTAN, a, 95/795 % . \ EL ° ‘ .* \ dD + y : 2 oP RY ‘ a4 i) ‘ % 2 4 3 ; This article is shiefly brought to India from the Banda islands, whence the Datel, (1.) before the present disastroas yrevolutions 2a wrope, were in the habit of .ex orfing annually one hundred thousand pound weight ofit. Mace is presayibed, by’ the Native Practitioners in Consumptive complaints,» also in Humoural Asthma; and, when?mixed’ with aromatics, in certain wasting, and long continued bowel affections ; bat’they. administer i¢ cautiously, fron? having ascertained that an over dose is apt to produce Stupor and intoxication ; an éffect of this spice which, | perceive, is noticed by Bontius. See his ‘* Account of the Diseases, &c. of the, East Indies,’’ page 194, Buglish trans< lation. Si ; MADDER, OF BENGAL. Manjtittic LO_mS 't_ 9 (Tam) ———— Bunjith Chasis (Dux. ann Hin.) Runas (Pers.) Mandistie (Ten.) pone RU BIA MANJITH, Roxs, > Tt This species of Madder, Dr. Fleming informs us, is indigenous in Nepal; and he mizht haye added, in Lower Thibet, where it is used-bythe dyers and calico printers in the same manner as the Axdia Tinctorum isin Kurope, . - MALLOW LEAF, COUNTRY, (OR POPLAR LEAVED SIDA.) _ Teottie elley hy) S HuUS Qo (TamM,.) ———-—— Cunghika peat ST taqgeeee (Dux.) Tovtiie akoe (TEr,) SIDA POPULI FOLIA. Cay, Cunghgoonie (Sans.) The Toottie elley has got the name of Marsh mallow leaf, on the Coromandel 2oast, from its similarity to it in appearance and natural qualities. A decoction (or infusion) of the leaves is much used by Europeans, in cases where emollient fomentations are requisite ; and the Native Practitioners also recommend it for the same purposes, ‘Phe expréssed juice of this article is prescribed by the Vytians, asa cooling medicine, in Gonorrbeea ; and an infusion of the root is given by them, as a drink, in fevers. This plaut appears to be the Belleren of the Hortus Malabaricus, and the Camdang sore Gesaar of Rumphius, who tells us that it possesses many of the virtues of dlthau, aud is used for similar purposes at Amboyna, . At © NANNA, SA#iréhist aac sai (Pers. ann Hinp.)—»———Turenjechecn {ARAB.)J— MANNA PERSICUM. Foruercity, Pui. Tr, ‘Phe Manna which is commonly found in the bazars, is imported, Dr. Fleming says, from Bussorah,; andis probably, he supposes, obtained from the Medyourum .dihs ge (Linn@us) i Wt is very inferier to that which is brought from Sicily aud Calabria, and which weknow to bethe produce of the #razinus Ornus. Butit would appear by D’Herbelot’s account, that Manna is to be got from a variety ef trees in Persia, partie cularly m Ahoraser, an near the city ot. dei. Skcertar. Much is. also yielded by a thorny plant called Adur-ehooter tobe piet with in abundance near the city of Zamis - en the confines of the province of Samarcand; and which is, on that acgount, called - bythe Arabs Zurenjeebcen Alzamini, a , _MANDRAKE. » : i _% ee aT a ; (L.) See Stavorinus's Foyages.to the Lust Ladies, ol, lst; page 330,