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ENGLISH NAMES.

Vernacular names.

Native methods of treatment.

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Colic ... ...

Gool, koorkuri, pet kamri, kirmi ...

(1) Aniseed 1 part, kala nimak 1 part, mixed with strong
vinegar and given as adraught; (2) tobacco leaves
and salt; (3) Kutira (Cochlospermum Gossypium;
(4) hen's eggs; (5) lizzard's tail mashed up in water
and spirit; (6) red pepper is inserted into the vagina
of a mare; (7) camphor stick into the horse's urethra;
(8) camphor and nitre are mixed into a paste and
plastered over the sacrum; (9) powdered chillies
in water and purgatives; (10) capsicum pencils into
the urethral canal; (11) kutira (Cochlospermum
Gossypium), infusion of tobacco, and isafgool (Plan-
tago Ispaghula; (12) beet salt (rock salt), turmeric,
jonti leaves with treacle; (13) flowers and fruits of
arusal (Adhatoda Vesica) with nalt; (14) indrajali
(Wrightia Antidysenterica), cloves, jowan, nutmeg,
dhunia (Corianda seed); (16) turmeric, chingri fish,
black brinjal, and treacle.

Suppression of urine ...

Prasaber pira ... ...

Nil.

Constipation... ...

Sukhbaghu ... ...

(1) Cobweb, Kharia nimak, chillees, and molasses inter-
nally.

Rheumatism... ...

Chaurang, bichi, bat ... ...

(1) Alcoholic stimulants and branding with hot irons;
(2) Alandu (Jhool or Cobweb), begunia (Solanum
Melongena), raj kussum (Carthamnus), bora kasia,
mixed together given internally.

Eczema ... ...

Khariati ... ...

Phenyle.

Paralysis ... ...

Kumri, budla ... ...

Branding.

Catarrh ... ...

Chandni, khoksa, surdi, kanar ...

(1) Warm clothing; (2) pepper is pounded with ghi; (3)
golmorich and dalbi (huldi) with mustard oil applied
to throat; (4) regni root pounded in goat's milk;
(5) bamboo leaves; (6) almonds; (7) leaves of
sendhar and gokhala made into a decoction and
given.

Nasal gleet ... ...

Urdhagalicha ... ...

A powder is used, called bartisa, and consists of onion,
soap, and alum.

Lampas ... ...

Laln, dantlar, tulna ... ...

Branded with hot iron.

Disease of nasal bones ...

Khamas, naksir ... ...

Bone trephined.

Inflammation of joints ...

Rus ... ...

Branding.

Vomiting

Naksura ... ...

Onions and ghi applied to nostrils.

Asthma ... ...

Dhoin ... ...

Salt, black pepper, mixed with plantain juice.

Pumiced foot ...

Koffgira ... ...

Sajji mixed with lime and heated is applied to the
soles of the feet two or three times a day. For
wounds powdered brickdust is applied.

Barsatti ... ...

Barehati ... ...

(1) Lard given internally every other day for three days;
(2) young frog given internally every other day;
(3) bakain (Nim Margosa) and nim fruit (Nim Mar-
gosa); shatara, mixed with curd and kept for three
days is given internally; (4) salt and lime juice
rubbed into the sores until they bleed, after which
quicklime is applied; (5) sulphate of copper and
alum; (6) bhela (marking nut) well cut, 1½ tolas,
and til, 4 tolas, is given for 40 days.

Anthrax ... ...

Joharbat ... ...

(1) Branding; (2) juice of bean leaves to the swellings.
Dies on second or third day.

Any largo inflammatory
swelling.

Jaharbad ... ...

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Tetanus ... ...

Chandmari ... ...

Rubbing cowdung ashes over the body.

Amaurosis ... ...

Chandni ... ...

(1) Washing the eye with soap; (2) a powder is composed
of sugar, pepper, glass, madar flower (Calotropis),
and dried goat's dung and applied to the eye.

Dysentery ... ...

Antarkatwa ... ...

Bael fruit and raksa kokra given with water.

Ophthalmia ... ...

Mada ... ...

Powdered glass, goat's dung, cobweb, and salt.

Cataract ... ...

Phula ... ...

Powdered glass, fowl's and goat's dung, cobweb, and
salt.

Intense pain, probably
enteritis.

Suckwa ... ...

(1) Legs are branded above the knee; (2) gharbath (Acorus
Calamus), simrekh (vermilion), bhelowa (Semecarpas
Anacardium), tobacco, honey, and black pepper mixed
in water and given.

Sunstroke ... ...

Dhoopenga, sardigurmi ... ...

(1) Black salt, black jira (caraway seed), ginger; (2)
treacle, turmeric, betel leaves, and onions; (3) fumi-
gation with jhinga fruit (Luffa Acutangula).

Diarrhoœa ... ...

Kumhari ... ...

Ginger, black pepper, akarkara with treacle.

Splint ... ...

Belhudda ... ...

Camphor liniment.

Lymphangitis ...

Jaharbat or jaharbad ... ...

Tamarind and turmeric paste applied.