The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s27: Nat. Order Smilaceæ
The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s27
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- c5.s27.t1 Smilax China, Linn. — 3 parts
Nat. Order Smilaceæ
Smilax China, Linn.
c5.s27.t1.1
Sans. चोबचिनि, Chobachini. Vern. Chobchini. Hind:
c5.s27.t1.2
FLUCKIGER and Hanbury state that "the use of this drug as a remedy for syphilis was made known to the Portuguese at Goa by Chinese traders about A.D. 1535." If this statement, which is given on the authority of Garcia d'orta, is correct, the history of this drug will enable us to fix the approximate age of the latest and most comprehensive treatise on Sanskrit Medicine, namely, the Bhávaprakása. In this work China root is described under its vernacular name of chobchini, as a root like Acorus Calamus, brought from a foreign country and useful in rheumatism, epilepsy, insanity and particularly in syphilis.² It is used in modern Hindu medicine as an alterative along with anantamul and other drugs of reputed efficacy in syphilis and rheumatism.
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² चोबचिनि। द्वीपान्तर वचा किञ्चित् तिक्तोष्णा वह्निदोप्रिकत्। विवन्धा-घ्मान शूलघ्नकन् मूत्रविशोधिनो । वातव्याधिन पञ्चारसन्मादम् तनुवेदनाम् । व्यपोहति विशेषेण फिरङ्गमयनाशिनो । भावप्रकाशः ।
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- Bhāvaprakāśa — Bhāvamiśra 1550, Sanskrit