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earemonies. Medicinally turmeric is used chiefly in Bkin diseases 

 both externally and internally. Turmeric paste with the addition 

 of a litfcle lime is a popular application to sprains and bruises. 

 A decoction of turmeric is used as a cooling wash in ophthalmia ; 

 cloth steeped in it is employed as an eye-shade. A paste of 

 turmeric and the leaves of Justicia AdJiafoda ( vdsalca), with oow's 



jd on the skin in prurigo. 1 Several other oombina- 

 ecrfc are in voerue. such as turmeric and nivi leaves* 



urine is rubl 

 tions of the 



turmeric and the ashes of the plantain tree, etc. Turmeric is 



urine in prurigo and eczema 



Haridrdkhanda. 3 Take of turmerio sixty-four tolas, clarified 

 butter forty-eight tolas, milk sixteen seers, sugar twelve tolas, 

 and boil them together over a gentle fire in an earthen pot. 

 Then add black pepper, long pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, 

 tejapatra, bdberang seeds, root of Ipomcea Turpethum (trivrit), the 



Mesua ferrea ( ndgakesara ) tubers of 



( mastaJca ) 



fine powder, and prepare a confection. Dose, one tola every 

 morning in prurigo, boils, urticaria, etc. A cure is said to be 

 effected in seven days. 



The term haridrddve, or the two turmerics, signifies turmerio 

 and the wood of Berberis Asiatica. They are often used together 

 in compound prescriptions both for external and internal use and 

 their properties are said to be analogous. 



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