Should any ill effects follow the use of the mangoe, milk, or the kernel of the fruit, will be found a corrector. My father’s opinion is, that these are not the only remedies; for if it produces any heating effect, curdled milk will give relief, or even cold water, or acidulated sherbet, and he himself was always in the habit of using the Phalsa sherbet on these occasions.
Should cholic be produced, the Oil of Almonds or other sweet oils, will remove the complaint; and a diarrhœa is to be cured by the use of the kernel; and a swelling of the abdomen, by milk, in which a little ginger has been mixed; or even ginger by itself will have the effect
A substitute for mangoe, as a medicine, may be had in Chobe Cheenee.
In general, it will be adviseable to abstain from the use of the mangoe, till 2 or 3 showers of rain have fallen; but those of a cold phlegmatic or melancholic temperament do not require to be so particular.
Those for whose complaints mangoes have been recommended, have in a few months derived great benefit from their use, by eating them with camel’s milk. There are many kinds of this fruit, and their names are as various; but the stronger the scent, the more effectual they are as a medicine. In Persian it is called Nugzuck.
2 Aramsheetul آ رام سيتل.—Pungent and cooling; useful in bilious and catarrhal complaints; also recommended in foulness of the blood.
3 Akaholie اكاهولى.—Vermifuge, also recommended in bilious and catarrhal disorders, in seminal weakness and gonorrhœa.
4 Adki ادكى.—Vide Arhir.
5 Anula آنولا. (nasal N.)—Or Amle, (Phyllanthus emblica, W. Murray IV. 127, Myrobolans.) The fruit round, like a plum. The tree like that of the tamarind, of a pleasant acid, and sweetish astringent taste. It is aperient, cooling, and drying; of great use in eruptions of the skin, arising from a redundance of bile. Other virtues ascribed to this fruit may be found in all Yunani works. It is also called Bidjee and Dhatri Phill, used by the natives for cleansing the hair.
6 Aru الو.—A variety of plum, much resembling the common sort, both in the tree and fruit; it however possesses more acidity, and is less easy of digestion.