[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877) › c5.s22.t1.2 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s22.t1.2 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s22.t1.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s22.t1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.2) 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. - [Previous: c5.s22.t1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.1) - [Next: c5.s22.t1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.3) - [Up: c5.s22.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.2) · Pramāṇa