The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t4.18

c5.s12.t4.18

PTYCHOTIS AJOWAN. The seeds of Ptychotis Ajowan have an aromatic smell and warm pungent taste. They are used for culinary purposes, as spices along with betel nuts and pan leaves, and as a carminative medicine. A tea spoonful of ájowan with a little rock salt, is a common domestic remedy for indigestion from irregular diet. The following compound powder is used in cases of colic or pain in the bowels. Take of ájowan, rock salt, sonchal salt, yavakshára, assafœtida, and chebulic myrobalan, equal parts; powder the ingredients and mix. Dose, grains ten to twenty, to be taken with wine.¹ A'jowan, taken daily with treacle, is said to cure urticaria within a week.² A'jowan, as well as the seeds of *Seseli Indicum* (*vanajamáni*), are much used as aromatic adjuncts in compound prescriptions.