144 SANSKRIT MATERIA' MEPICA. 



NAT. ORDER, LEGUMINOS>E. 



SARACA INDICA, Linn. 



Syn. Jonesia Asoea, Tloxb. 



Sans, ^tfai, Asoha. Vern, Asoh $ Hind. Beng. 



Dr. Roxburgh says, "when this tree is in full blossom I do 

 not think, the whole vegetable kingdom affords a more beautiful 

 object." It is famed in Hindu mythology from the circumstance 

 of Sita the wife of Rumchandra, having been confined by Havana 

 in a grove of asoha trees. The bark is much used by native 

 physicians in uterine affections and especially in monorrhagia. A 

 decoction 1 of the bark in milk, is prepared by boiling eight tolas of 

 the bark in eight tolas of milk and thirty-two tolas of water till 

 the latter is evaporated. This quantity is given in two or three 

 divided doses during the course of the day, in menorrhagia. A 

 ghrita called Asoha ghrita is prepared with a decoction of the bark 

 and olarified butter with the addition of a number of aromatic 

 substances in the form of a paste. 



GLYCYRRH1XA GLABRA, Linn. 



Sans, nf&fj YeukH madhu, q>& f Madhuka. 

 Yem. Jashti madhu, Beng. Mulhatti. Hind. 



Liquorice root, though not indigenous to India, has been used 

 in Hindu Medicine from a very remote period, and is mentioned 



bv Snsrnfa. Tf in <3a«~~:i_ji „ _ , . 



ful ,n inflammatory affections, cough, hoarseness, thirst etc. It is 

 rnuch used for flavouring medicinal demotions, oils and ghritas. 

 It enters into the composition of numerous external cooling appli- 

 cations along w,th red sandal wood, madder, Andropogon vmricafus 



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