[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 # 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 - **Language:** English ### Pinus Webbiana, Wall. ### [c5.s22.t1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.1) \*Syn. Abies Webbiana, Lindl.\* \*Sans.\* तालीशपत्र, \*Tálisapatra, Vern. Tálispatra Beng. Hind.\* ### [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. ### [c5.s22.t1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.3) 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. ### [c5.s22.t1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.4) ¹ तालीशचूर्णसंयुक्तः पेयः क्षौद्रेण वासकस्वरसः। कफपित्ततमकश्वासस्वरभेद‌रक्तपित्तहरः। चक्रदत्तः। ### [c5.s22.t1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1.5) 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। ## Cites (2) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gauda.cakradatta) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit - [Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.laghutrayi.sarngadharasamhita) — Śārṅgadhara (physician), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s22.t1) · Pramāṇa