Remarks on the uses of some of the bazaar medicines and common medical plants of India : with a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India : to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites, &c / by Edward John Waring.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the uses of some of the bazaar medicines and common medical plants of India : with a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India : to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites, &c / by Edward John Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![98. Chiretta is a good bitter tonic, and renders the practitioner in India independent of imported articles of the same class. It is best given as follows : take Chiretta, bruised one ounce, Hot Water a pint; infuse for six hours or more and strain. Dose from two to three ounces three times daily. A drachm of bruised Cloves, or Cinnamon, or Cardamom seeds, increases its efficacy and improves its flavour. It may be given in all cases of Debility, especialli/ after Fevers, in Indi- gestion, Loss of Ap])etite, &c. It may also be given in mild cases of Ague or Intermittent Fever; but this is spoken of in Art. Galls, q. v. 99. A good form of employing Chiretta as a tonic is to add two ounces of the bruised stems to a bottle of Sherry and let it stand for a week. Of this a wine- glassful should be taken once or twice daily, one hour before meals, in Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, and other cases mentioned in the last section. 100. Cinnamon. The dried bark of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, Nees. D4r-chini {Hind., Punj.), Ddl-chmi {Buk., Beng., Kash., Guz.), Lavanga-pattai, Karuvd-pattai, (Tarn.), Lavanga patta (Mai., Tel.), Ddla-chini (Can., Mah.), Kurundo (Oing.), Timbo-tik-yobo (Lurm.), Kulit-manis (Malay). 101. The above names belong only to the true Cinnamon, which is procurable in most bazaars; it requires to be distinguished from the country Cin- namon, the bark of Cinnamomum iners (Jangli-dal-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2197004x_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
