200 SANSKRIT MATERIA MEDICA. 



ripe fruits of the size of apples, have a beautiful orange colour 



and contain a bitter gelatinous pulp, within which the flat and 



curiously umbilicated seeds are found imbedded. 



Nux vomica seeds produce a sort of intoxication, for which 

 they are habitually taken by some natives as an aphrodisiac. 

 Those who do so gradually become so far accustomed to this 

 poison that they often come to take one seed daily, which is cut 

 into small pieces and chewed with a packet of betel leaf. 

 Medicinally the seeds are used in dyspepsia and diseases of the 

 nervous system. 



Samzragaja ketari. Take of dux vomica, opium and black 



pepper equal parts, and make into two-grain pills. These aie 



given with the juice of betel leaves in diseases of the nervous 

 system. 





Sullamnayoga} Take of chebulic myrobalan, iong pepper, 

 black pepper, ginger, nux vomica, assafoetida, sulphur and rook 

 salt, equal parts and make into four-grain pills. These are given 

 with warm water in dyspepsia with pain after meals, and in 

 diarrhoea. Sarangadhara gives the following prescription in 

 which the term vishamwhti is usually understood to mean nux 

 vomica. Take of mercury, sulphur, aconite, ajowan, the three 

 myrobalans, sarjikdkshara (impure carbonate of soda), yavalcshlra 

 (impure carbonate of potash), rock salt, plumbago root, cumin 

 seeds, sachal salt, seasalt, bdberang, black pepper, long pepper 

 and ginger, equal part's, vuhamushti (nux vomica seeds) equal m 

 weight to all the ahove ingredients and make info pills of the size 

 of black pepper corns with lemon juice. These pills are given to 



promote the appetite and increase the digestive power.* 



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