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Arka taila} Take of prepared sesamum oil, four seers, juice 

 of arka leaves, sixteen seers, and turmeric reduced to a paste, one 

 seer ; boil them together in the usual way. This oil is said to be 

 useful in eczema, and other eruptive skin diseases. Sometimes 

 orpiment is substituted for turmeric in this preparation. 



NAT. ORDER L0GAN1ACE/E. 



STRYCHNOS NUX VOMICA, Linn. 



Sans, ^nfrg, Ktipilu, fj^rar, Eulaka, T<W*$£t f Vtshamush H '. 



Vern. Kuchild, Beng. Hind. 



Nux Vomica has been introduced into Hindu Medicine at a 

 recent period. There is no generally recognized Sanskrit name 

 for it. In some recent Sanskrit compilations, it is mentioned 

 under its vernacular name kuchild, a term which ia not to be 

 found in standard Sanskrit dictionaries. Sarangadhara and other 

 writers give some prescriptions containing a drug named 

 vishamushti, which is generally interpreted to mean in these 

 places, dux vomica seeds ; but vishamushti according to the 

 Bhavapiakasa ha3 an edible fruit and is callsd Karerud in Hindi, 

 In this work the Sanskrit term ktipilu with its synonjms, kulaka, 

 vishatinduka, markatatinduka, etc., is said to be the Sanskrit 

 synonyms for kuchild and this translation 'is followed in some 

 Hindi medical books, as for example in the treatise on the 

 properties of drugs, compiled by Pundit Keshava Prasada 

 Dviredi of the Agra College. This interpretation however is not 

 accepted in Bengal, for neither Wilson nor Sir Raja Radhakanta 

 Deva has given kuchild as the Vernacular for kupilu, njr does 

 this term "or any of its synonyms above mentioned, occur in any 

 Sanskrit medical prescription. In our account of this drug we 

 will according to the practice of our Kavirdjas in Bengal 

 interpret Vishamushti as kuchild. 



The Strychnos nux vomica is indigenous to most patts of India 

 I found ifc to be common in the jungles about Manbhoom. The 



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