tERMINALIA BELLERICA. 



163 



liable to be deranged in the different seasons. This old device for 

 prolonging life is still believed in, and acted upon, by some 

 superstitions elderly native gentlemen. 1 



Numerous preparations of haritaki for special diseases are 

 described in books, ^uoh as the AmrHa haritaki for dyspepsia, 

 Danti haritaki for enlargements in the abdomen called gulma, 

 Bhrigu haritaki in cough, Agasti haritaki in consumption, Dasa 

 muli haritaki in anasarca, etc. 



Amrita haritaki 2 is thus prepared. Oce hundred large sized 

 ohebulic myrobalans are boiled in butter-milk, and their seeds are 

 taken out. Four tolas each of long pepper, black pepper, ginger, 

 cinnamon, plumbago root, root of Piper Chaba (chavikd), the 

 five salts, djowan, and the seeds of Seseli Indicum, (vanayamdni), 

 yavakshdra, sarjikdkshdra, borax, assafcetida and cloves, are reduced 

 to powder, and soaked for three days respectively in a decoction 

 of tamarind and in lemon juice. This mixture is introduced 

 within the seedless myrobalans, which are then exposed to the 

 Bun and dried. 0ne of these prepared myrobalans is directed to 

 be taken every morning for the relief of various sorts of dyspepsia 

 and indigestion. Danti haritaki will be described under Baliosper- 

 mnm montanum. The other preparations of ohebulic myrobalans 

 are not much in vogue at present. 



• 



TERMINALLY BELLERICA, Roxb. 



Sans. fa*ft*N% Vibhitaki. Vern. Bahera, Hind. Beng. 



Bellertc myrobalans are described as astringent and laxative 

 and useful in cough, hoarseness, eye diseases, etc. As a constituent 





* t 



1. i$t *wt wit bpw *r3t m I *3 wi^t w to" *!ftw?f 





vrot: i 



2. irero'taft i *ft«*n: mr W m: fisra' *3*»1 i v^rc q^qz 







