The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t9.2

c5.s12.t9.2

The bark of Holarrhena antidysenterica constitutes the principal medicine for dysentery in the Hindu Pharmacopœia. Before the discovery of the efficacy of ipecacuana in this disease, many chronic cases which did not get well under European medical treatment, used to be cured by the Kavirajes, by their preparations of this bark. The seeds called Indrayava in Sanskrit and Indrajav in the vernacular, are also used in medicine, they being regarded as astringent, febrifuge and useful in fever, dysentery, diarrhœa, and intestinal worms.