The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s22.t1: Pinus Webbiana, Wall.

The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s22.t1

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Pinus Webbiana, Wall.

c5.s22.t1.1

*Syn. Abies Webbiana, Lindl.* *Sans.* तालीशपत्र, *Tálisapatra, Vern. Tálispatra Beng. Hind.*

THE dried leaves used by Kavirajas under the name of *tálisapatra*, were identified at the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden to be the leaves of *Pinus Webbiana*. They are single, spirally arranged all round the branchlets, flat, narrow, linear, one to three inches long, one line broad, narrowed into a short terete petiole, under side with two longitudinal furrows on either side of the raised midrib, upper side shining. The Sanskrit term *tálisapatra* has been hitherto translated by most writers on Botany and Materia Medica, as *Flacourtia cataphracta*. The error originated probably in Wilson's Sanskrit-English dictionary and has since been repeated by subsequent writers. This medicine is regarded as carminative, expectorant and useful in phthisis, cough and asthma.

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The powdered leaves are given with the juice of *Justicia* *Adhatoda (vásaka)* and honey in cough, asthma and hæmoptysis.¹ A confection called *Tálisádya churna* is prepared with *tálisapatra*, black pepper, long pepper, ginger, bamboo-manna, cardamoms, cinnamon, and sugar, and is used in the above mentioned diseases.² These leaves enter into the composition of numerous complex prescriptions.

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¹ तालीशचूर्णसंयुक्तः पेयः क्षौद्रेण वासकस्वरसः। कफपित्ततमकश्वासस्वरभेद‌रक्तपित्तहरः। चक्रदत्तः।

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² तालीशाद्यं चूर्णम्। तालीशं मरिचं शुण्ठीपिप्पलीवंशलोचना। एकद्वित्रिचतुःपञ्चकषैर्भागान् प्रकल्पयेत्। एलात्वचोस्तु कर्षाद्धं प्रत्येकं भागमावहेत्। द्वात्रिंशत्कर्षतुलिताप्रदेयाशर्करा बुधैः। तालीशाद्यमिदं चूर्ण पाचंनं रोचकं स्मृतम्। कासश्वासज्वरहरं छर्द्यतीसारनाशनम्। शोषघ्नाम्हर प्लीहगुल्मपाण्डुरोगजित्। पक्वां वा शर्करां चूर्णं क्षिपेत् स्याद्गुटिका ततः। शार्ङ्गधरः।

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Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit
Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā — Śārṅgadhara (physician), Sanskrit