210 ►SANSKRIT MATERIA MEDICA. 



Dr. W. C. Mookerjee, says "Kantakari is an invaluable medi- 

 cine for Dropsy aa a sequela of the advanced stage of Fever 

 when all other modes of treatment fail. It is said by him to be a 

 powerful diuretic and useful in chronic, violent and low fever, 

 dropsy or general anasarca, low vitality of the general system, 

 enlargement of liver and spleen. It is combined with knrcbi in 

 anasarca with Dysentery." Report of Dispensing, 1878. 



Kantahdri is used in medicine in various forms, such as 

 decoction, electuary, ghrita, etc. A decoction of the root is given 

 with the addition of long pepper and honey, in cough and catarrh, 

 and with rook salt and assafcetida in spasmodic cough. 1 Several 

 compound decoctions made along with other expectorant and 

 demulcent drugs are in use. The following is an example. Take 

 of kantakari, root of Justicia Adhatoda ( vdsaka), pulse of Dolichos 

 nmflorus (kulattha) and ginger, equal parts, in all two tolas ; 

 prepare a decoction in the usual way and administer, with the 

 addition of pdchak root, in cough with difficult breathing. 2 



EantaMryavaleha* or electuary of Solanum Jacquinii. Take of 

 kantakdri root twelve seers and a half, water sixty-four seers, boil 

 till reduced to one fourth and strain. Boil the strained decoction 

 till reduced to the consistence of a fluid extract, and add to it the 

 following substances in fine powder, namely, gulanclia, Piper Chaba 

 (chavya), plumbago root, tubers of Cyperus rotundus (mustaka), 

 Wins svrcedanea, (karkata sringi), long pepper, black pepper, 

 ginger, Alhagi Maurorum (ydsa), CUrodendron Siphonantlms 

 (vdrgi) r Va-ada EoxbumUr (^ t A\ 



™rgi)rVanaaitoxburgMi, {rdmd) and zedoary root, each eight 

 tolas, sugar two seers and a half, sesamum oil and clarified butter 

 each one seer, and boil together till reduced to the proper 



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