SANSKRIT MATERIA MEDICA. 



The fresh juice of the leaves of Trichosanthes dioica is retsom* 



mended by several writers, to be applied to the bald patches of 

 alopecia. 1 



CUCUMtS ^lELO, Linn. 



' $yn. Cucurnis utilissimus, Roxb. 





Sams. *b«£|, Karhati. Vern. Kdnkur, Bcwj. Kdkri, Hind. 



The seeds of this useful species of Cucurnis are described as 

 cooling, edible, nutritive and diuretic, and are used in painful 

 micturition and suppression of urine. Two drachms of the seeds 

 rubbed into a pulp with water, are given alone or in combination 

 with salt and kdnjiha* 



The seeds of Cucurnis sativus, (Bams, cjg^ Trapusha. Vern. 



Khird y Hind.) and of Benincasa cerifera (Sans. Kushmdnda.) are 

 also used as diuretics like those of Cucurnis utilissimus} 



COCCINIA INDICA, W. Sf A. Syn. Momordlca vwnodelpha, 

 Boxb. Sans, fan, Vimba, Vern. TeUikuchd, Beng. The expressed 

 juice of the thick tap-root of this plant is used by the leading 

 native Kavinljes of Calcutta, as an adjunot to the metallic 



preparations prescribed by them in diabetes. I hive not found 

 this use of the plant noticed in any written work, but I know 

 several patients who have taken the juice of the root along with 

 Vangesvara or Soman&tha Rasa and who were benefitted by the 

 use of these remedies. I am inclined to think that the juice of 

 the root of this plant probably acts beneficially in some way. It 

 is very desirable that its therapeutic action should be tested. 

 The expressed juice is directed to be taken in doses of one tola 

 along with a pill, every morning. 



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