FERULA ASAFOETIDA
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Kayam ; Perungayam
English: Asafoetida Telugu: Inguva Malayalam: Hingu Kannada: Hingu Marathi: Hing Hindi: Hingra Sanskrit: Bhutnasan ; Hingu |
description & usage
This small plant (herb) grows wild in Punjab, Kashmir, Persia and Afghanistan.
Uses:
It is a valuable remedy for hysteria and nervous disorders of women and children, flatulence, flatulent colic and spasmodic affections of the bowels especially when connected with hysteria, in fainting and emotional states, nervous palpitations, hypochondriasis and other affections due to hysteria, in the spasmodic, and the obstinate coughs of childhood remaining after attacks of inflammation and also in the advanced stages of whooping cough, pneumonia and bronchitis of children, and in the chronic bronchitis and asthma of adults.
How to Use:
For hysteria and allied complaints pills prepared from asafoetida and aloes 1.5 grains each and a little honey are very beneficial. A tea-spoonful of a mixture 1 in 50 of water or thin gruel, with a little omum water added is often very effective in relieving the flatulent colic of children. Take of fried asafoetida, ginger, long-pepper, black-pepper, ajowan, cumin seeds, nigella seeds and rock-salt equal parts ; reduce them to powder and mix. Dose- ten to twenty grains, to be taken with the first morsel of rice and clarified butter taken at breakfast. In action this oil is internally, intestinal antiseptic, laxative, respiratory, stimulant and antiseptic. Externally, antiseptic, and stimulant to foul ulcers. For ringworm asafoetida is applied as a paste ; it is also a good application over scorpion bites.
Parts Used:
Resine
Taste:
Bitterness
Action:
Stimulant, carminative, diuretic, aphrodisiac
Uses:
It is a valuable remedy for hysteria and nervous disorders of women and children, flatulence, flatulent colic and spasmodic affections of the bowels especially when connected with hysteria, in fainting and emotional states, nervous palpitations, hypochondriasis and other affections due to hysteria, in the spasmodic, and the obstinate coughs of childhood remaining after attacks of inflammation and also in the advanced stages of whooping cough, pneumonia and bronchitis of children, and in the chronic bronchitis and asthma of adults.
How to Use:
For hysteria and allied complaints pills prepared from asafoetida and aloes 1.5 grains each and a little honey are very beneficial. A tea-spoonful of a mixture 1 in 50 of water or thin gruel, with a little omum water added is often very effective in relieving the flatulent colic of children. Take of fried asafoetida, ginger, long-pepper, black-pepper, ajowan, cumin seeds, nigella seeds and rock-salt equal parts ; reduce them to powder and mix. Dose- ten to twenty grains, to be taken with the first morsel of rice and clarified butter taken at breakfast. In action this oil is internally, intestinal antiseptic, laxative, respiratory, stimulant and antiseptic. Externally, antiseptic, and stimulant to foul ulcers. For ringworm asafoetida is applied as a paste ; it is also a good application over scorpion bites.
Parts Used:
Resine
Taste:
Bitterness
Action:
Stimulant, carminative, diuretic, aphrodisiac
