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

103.

Cloves.

The dried unexpanded flower-buds of Caryophyllus aromaticus, Linn.

Lóng (Hind., Beng.), Lavang (Duk.), Kirámbu, Ilavangap-pú (Tam.), Lavango-pú, Lavangálu (Tel.), Karámpu (Mal.), Lavanga (Can., Mah.), Lavang (Guz.), Krábu-nati (Cing.), Láúng (Punj.), Raung (Kash.), Leniah-poén, Lenang-poén (Burm.), Bunga Chingkeh (Malay).

104. The Cloves met with in the bazaars are often old and worthless. Those suited for medical use should have a strong, fragrant odour, a bitter, spicy, pungent taste, and should emit a trace of oil when indented with the nail.

105. Cloves are a good useful stimulant and carminative, stronger than Cinnamon, which, however, may be advantageously substituted when the former are either of inferior quality or not procurable. A pleasant and serviceable mixture is made by infusing three drachms of bruised Cloves in a pint of boiling water, and straining when cold. Of this the dose is from one or two ounces in Indigestion, Flatulence, Colic and Spasmodic Affections of the Bowels. It sometimes succeeds in checking Vomiting, especially that attendant on Pregnancy. A mixture of equal parts of the infusions of Cloves and Chiretta (98) has often excellent effect in Debility, Loss of Appetite, and in Convalescence after Fevers.

106.

Cocculus Indicus.

The fruits of Anamirta Cocculus, W. et A.

Kákmárí-ke-bínj (Hind., Duk.), Káká-mári (Beng.), Kákkáy-kolli-varai, Pén-kottai (Tam.), Káka-mári, Káki-champa (Tel.), Karanta-kattin-káya, Pollak-káya (Mal.), Kaka-mári-bíjá (Can.), Tit-taval (Cing.).