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SANBKIUT MATERIA ME1HCA. 



Kdnchandra guggulu. 1 Take of the hark of Bauhinia variegata, 

 eighty tolas, the three myrobalans sixty tolas, ginger, black pepper, 

 long pepper and the bark o£ Cra/oeva religiosa {varuna)> eight 

 tohis eaoh, cardamoms, cinnamon, and tejpatra leaves, each two 

 kolas, powder them all and rub together with guggulu, equal in 

 weight to all the other ingredients. Dose, half a tola to be taken 

 every morning with a decoction of 8phcerft.nl It ns mollis (mundi) 

 or of catechu. This medicine is said to be useful in scrofulous 

 enlargements of glands, tumours, ulcers, skin diseasevS, etc. 



TAMARINDUS INDICA, Linn. 



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Vern. Tentul, Bewj. Ivili, Haul 



The tamarind tree is met with throughout India, and has been 

 known from a very remote period. "From the Hindus it would 

 seem that the fruit became known to the Arabians who called it 

 Ta mare- Hindi :" form which last the word tamarind is derived. , 

 Tamarinds form an important ingredient in native cookery. The 

 unripe fruit is very acid and possesses a peculiar aroma for which 

 it is much relished when cooked with curry. The ripe fruit is 

 regarded as refrigerant, digestive, carminative and laxative, and 

 useful in diseases supposed to be caused by deranged bile, such as 

 burning of the body, costiveness, intoxication from spirituous 

 liquors or datum, etc. The shells of the ripe fruit arc burnt, and 

 their ashes used in medicine as an alkaline substance, along with 

 other medicines of the sort, as for example in the preparation 

 called Abhayalavunu, (se e Alkaline ashes). The pulp of the ripe 



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