A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s24.7

v3.c43.s24.7

Uncommon names of plants forming part of Kālidāsa’s materia medica are: akimcanādhipa (16.121),681 ākulī (7.15, 19, 22),682 alarkāri (19.49),683 araṇyātulasī (17.12),684 bhūmisarpa (18.22),685 brahmaḍaṇḍī (18.11),686 gandhalakṣmī (13.42),687 haritamañjarī (6.28 and 72; 19.40),688 jharasī (4.5),689 kabarī (16.67),690 kāraskara (6.3; 11.56; 12.27; 13.26),691 karpūravallī (11.37),692 kikkisa (7.22; 16.121),693 kṣudranātha (16.105),694 kṣudrapappaṇa (7.7),695 kukkuṭaṇispāva (16.118),696 nagnajit (7.17; 11.43),697 papphaṇa (8.5),698 phalālika (19.55),699 pūlāsa (7.18 and 21; 11.33),700 rāhūcchiṣṭa (3.24),701 raktalaśuna (6.28),702 raktapuccha (19.55),703 sāgarā (7.21),704 śākinī (7.17; 16.110),705 siṃhalī (3.8),706 sthalaśṛṅgāṭa (7.3),707 śvetaparṇāsa (6.30),708 śvetapulāsa (16.9 and 57),709 talapoṭa (16.39),710 triśūlī (16.60),711 vairī (7.17),712 vātamūlī (11.34),713 yakṣadṛś (6.32; 8.5 and 16; 16.46), yakṣākṣī (6.31), yakṣalocana (6.6), yakṣanetra (6.15).714 Opium (6.3: ahiphena) and mercury (11.21; 18.9, 20, 21, 25) are prescribed by Kālidāsa.715