182 SANSKRIT MATERIA MEDICA. 



Agnimukha churna. 1 Take of assafcetida, one part Acorns 

 Calamus ( vachd ) two parts, long pepper, three parts, ginger, four 

 parts, ajowan five parts, obebulie myrobalan, six parts, plumbago 

 root, seven parts, and the root of Aplotaxis auriculata, eight parts. 

 Powder the ingredients, mix and pass the powder through a 

 cloth. Dose, twenty to forty grains with whey or wine in 

 dyspepsia with I06S of appetite. 



A liniment composed of the root of Aplotaxis auriculata, kdnjika 

 and castor oil is recommended by several writers to be applied to 

 the forehead in cephalalgia. 2 The fried root, mixed with mustard 

 oil, is applied to the scalp in porrigo. Equal parts of the 

 powdered root and of rock salt-, mixed with mustard oil and 

 fermented paddy water {kdnjika), are rubbed on joints affected 

 with chronic disease. 3 



WEDELIA CALENDULACEA, Less. 



Syn. Verbesina calendulacea, Boxb. 

 Sans, wsm, Bhringardja. %nxm, Kesardja. 

 Vern. Kesardja, Beng BMnrd, Hind. 

 There is Borne confusion between the Sanskrit and vernacular 



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Both these 



plants are called kcsardj or kes»rid in Bengali, and the two Sans- 

 krit names of bhringardja and kesardja are used as synonyms. 

 The Hindustani term blidngrd, derived from the Sanskrit hhrin- 



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this is the plant used in medicine at present. The leaves, which 

 have a slight oamphoraceous taste, are considered tonic, alterative, 



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