33. Hingu
Names:- Latin Ferula fetida
Tamil Perunkayam
Telugu Inguva
Canarese Ingu
Malayal Kayam
Urdu Heeng
Hingooshanm paachaum ruchyam
Teekshnam Vaata Balaasa nuth
Soola gulmodaraanaaha
Krimighnam Pitta Vardhanam.
Hingu (Asafoetida) is heating, it digests food. It improves the taste. It is acute and penetrating. It checks Vaata and Kapha and promotes Pitta. It is useful in the treatment of Soola (colicy pain), gulma, udara (abdominal disease), distention of the abdomen and Krimi Antiseptic and Vermicide).
Dose:- 2 to 5 grains made into a pill with jaggery or as an emulsion with milk.
Action:- Carminative, digestive, emmenagogue and antispasmodic.
Uses:- It is a very good carminative and aids digestion. It is much used in Vaata diseases. It is also used as an expectorant in habitual cough, chronic catarrh, bronchitis, as an antispasmodic in asthma and as a carminative in dyspepsia, colic and other gastric affections and to expel worms. It relieves distension of the bowels. For its special action of increasing the menstrual flow it is given in cases of painful menstruation. It is very useful in hysteria and allied nervous disorders. After delivery, it is given for expulsion of the placenta in 5 grain doses every 15 minutes. As an external application to wounds, dissolved in oil, it is an excellent antiseptic and in diseases of the ear it is a reputed specific used popularly in relieving ear-aches.
34. Hingulam
Names:- Latin Cinnabar
Tamil Lingam
Telugu Ingileekam
Canarese Ingilika
Malayal Chayilyam
Urdu Singruff
Hingulam Katukam paake
Veeryechoshnam prakeertitam
Visha kushta visarpaadi
Twakdoshaharunam Smitam
Tridosha Dwanda doshottham
Jwaram harati Sevitam
Dhanvanthari Nighantu.
Hingulam is pungent by Vipaaka and heating. It is useful in the treatment of Visha, Kushta, Visarpa, and diseases of the skin. It checks fevers, caused by the vitiation of two or even the three doshas.
Dose:- ½ to 2 grains of the powder to be given with honey or along with other anupaanams twice or thrice a day. It is also given enclosed in a raisin or dry Draksha.
Action:- Febrifuge, antiperiodic, antipyretic, anti-syphilitic and tonic.
Uses:- This is the cheapest form of administering mercury in small doses. As it is combined with sulphur, it does not seem to affect the mouth as calomel. Given early in syphilis, it is a very cheap antisyphilitic. It is also used in fevers either alone or in combination with other drugs such as aconite and is believed to have a specific action. Though many costly preparations of mercury are in use, I consider that this is almost as good as any other. As an external application for syphilitic ulcers, skin diseases such as ringworm and diseases of the nails, it is made into an ointment with wax and oil or into a paste with lemon juice and applied. It enters into the composition of many compound pills of the Ayurvedic Pharmacy such as Aaandabhairavam, Sannipaathabhairavam, etc.
35. Ikshuraka
Names:- Latin Hygrophila spinosa
Tamil Neermulli
Telugu Neerugobbi
Canarese Mullankole
Malayal Vayalchullie
Urdu Thalmakhana
Ikshurakah seetalovrishyah
Swaadwamlah picchilah tadhaa
Tikto Vaataama sodhaasma
Trishnaa Drushtyaa nilaasrajit.
Ikshuraka is sweet, acid and bitter. It is cooling and aphrodisiac. It is sticky (Picchila lubricating). It is useful in the treatment of Vaata, Aamadosha, swelling, stone in the bladder or Kidney, thirst, defect in eyesight, and Vaatarakta. – Bhavaprakaasa.
Dose:- Internally 5 to 30 grains of the powder of the seeds with milk and sugar or ghee and sugar.
½ to 2 oz. of the decoction of the leaves or the whole plant.
Externally the ash of the whole plant mixed with cow’s urine or lime water or water.
Action:- Demulcent, diuretic and aphrodisiac.
Uses:- It is one of the most reputed aphrodisiacs. It is either given alone or as a compound powder mixed with other drugs such as Vidari, Aswagandha etc., or as a lehyam. It is a cooling diuretic and is of much use in gonorrhoea, dropsy, ascites, liver disease and irritation of the urinary tract.
External application of the ash over the swollen parts or the whole body, specially over the abdomen and hands and feet, with cow’s urine has, in some cases, remarkable effects in increasing the quantity of urine and reducing the swellings. A diet mainly of milk and salt free is also recommended in the treatment.
36. Jatiphala
Names:- Latin Myristica fragrans
Tamil Jatikay
Telugu Jajikaya
Canarese Jaikai
Malayal Jatikai
Urdu Jaephal
Jaateephalam Kashaayoshnam
Katu Kanthaama Yaartijit
Vataateesaara Meghaghnam
Laghu Vrishyamcha Deepanam.
Jateephala (Nutmeg) is astringent, heating and pungent. It is useful in the treatment of diseases of the throat, Diarrhoea of the Vaata type and Meha. It is light; promotes appetite and is aphrodisiac.
Dose:- 5 to 15 grains of the churnam to be taken with honey.
Action:- Astringent, aromatic, carminative, stimulant and aphrodisiac.
Uses:- In small doses it stimulates digestion, increases appetite, relieves flatulence, dyspepsia and colic. In large doses it causes stupor and delirium. As a carminative, anodyne and astringent it is given in diarrhoea and dysentery and to allay nausea and vomiting. Small doses of it frequently given relieve strangury. A paste of it is used as an external application to the head in headache. The oil taken out of this is given in atomic dyspepsia, diarrhoea and as an adjunct to other medicines. Locally, diluted with bland oil, it is applied in rheumatism. Bhava-prakash advocates its paste as an external application in discolored patches of the face and Vangasena recommends the same in leprotic ulcers of the skin. Chewed with betel leaves, it is an aphrodisic and digestive.
