Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India / With a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites &c.

by Edward John Waring

Palpitations of the Heart, Nervous.

These may in a great measure be controlled by Asafœtida (35), Camphor (70), or Infusion of Jatamansi (184), either alone or used conjointly. Palpitations or flutterings in the region of the Heart which occur in weak, nervous, hysterical subjects, often yield to Bromide of Potassium, in dose of five to ten grains dissolved in water, twice or thrice daily.

Paralysis.

Little can be done by non-professionals beyond giving internally Fish Liver Oil (142), alone or with Sulphate of Iron (177), in anæmic or debilitated subjects, and applying irritants, as Croton Liniment (122), Petroleum (410), externally.

Pecnash (Maggots in the Nose).

Oil of Turpentine (363b).

Phthsis.

See Consumption, Pulmonary.

Physic Nut, Poisoning by.

See Croton Seeds.