558 SOLANACEZ. 
be touched” ; and is described as aperient, pungent, bitter, 
digestive, diuretic, alterative, astringent and anthelmintic; 
useful in fever, cough, asthma, flatulence, costiveness and heart 
disease. It is also thought to promote conception in the 
female. In practice the drug is generally combined witl other 
expectorants, demulcents and aromatics. 
The following prescription from the Bhavaprakasha is scion 
in * Dutt’s Hindu Materia Medica” :—Kantakdryavaleha, or 
electuary of S. Jacquini. Take of Kantaékéri 124 seers, water 
64 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 substancesin fine powder, 
namely, T'imospora cordifolia, Piper Chaba, Plumbago zeylanica, 
Cyperus rotundus, Rhus Kakrasingt, long pepper, black pepper, 
ginger, Alhagt maurorum, Clerodendron Siphonanthus, Vanda 
Roxburghii, and Zedoary root, each 8 tolas, sugar 24 seers, 
sesamum oil and clarified butter each one seer. Boil together 3 
until reduced to the proper consistence. Lastly, add honey — 
one seer, bamboo manna and long pepper in fine arg each 
half a seer. 
This electuary is given to allay cough. The drug is also 
used in decoction with long pepper and honey, and with salt 
and asafcetida for asthma, 
Mahometan writers, under the Arabic name of Hadak, or 
the Persian Badinjén-i-barri (wild egg plant), mention three 
kinds of Solanum, having somewhat similar properties. Their 
small kind, or Hejazi, appears to be the Solanum xanthocarpum, 
which they recommend in asthma, cough, dysuria, catarrbal 
fever, leprosy, costiveness and stone in the bladder. Under 
the name of Cundunghatrievayr, Ainslie (ii. 90) notices the use 
of this drug in Southern India as an expectorant. The stems, 
flowers, and fruit, according to Dr. Wilson (Calcutta Med. 
Phys. Trans., Vol. TI., p. 406), are bitter and carminative, and 
are prescribed in those forms of Ignipeditis, which are attended 
with a vesicular, Watery eruption. Fumigations with the 
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