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mixed with milk is used as a snuff. 1 The fresh juice of ginger 

 taken with honey relieves catarrh, cough and loss of appetite. 2 



Saindhavddya taila? Take of dry ginger forty tolas, rook-salt, 

 long pepper root and plumbago root, sixteen tolas each, marking 

 nuts twenty in number, fermented rice water sixteen seers, 

 sesamum oil four seers, boil them together and prepare an oil in 

 the usual way. This oil is rubbed externally in soiatica and 

 other forms of rheumatism. 



ZINGIBER ZERUMBET, Roxb. Sans, ^srafar, SthfOm 



granthi, Vera. Mahd ban bach, Hind. Beng. 



ZINGIBER CASSUMUNAR, Roxb. Sans, wrv, Vamk- 



draka, Vern. Bandda, Beng. 



ALPINIA GALANGA, Linn. Sans. ^faSH, Kulinjana. 

 Vern. Kulinjdu, Beng. Hind. 



The aromatic tubers of these three speoies are occasionally 

 used as carminative or fragrant adjuncts in complex prescriptions 

 but they have nothing peculiar in their properties or action. 



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CURCUMA LONGA, Roxb. 



Sans, ffoj, Hmdrd, fan, Niid. Vern. Halnd, B. Haldi, H~. 



The turmerio plant is extensively cultivated for the sake of 

 its tubers which are an essential ingredient of native curry 

 powders. Turmeric pounded into a paste and mixed with oil, is 

 rubbed on the skin to improve its appearance and prevent skin 

 diseases. The rubbing of turmerio and oil is an essential part of 

 the Hindu marriage festival as well as of some religions 



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