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Yellow Orpiment

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OTHER NAMES

Tamil: Thalakam
English: Yellow orpiment
Telugu: Talakam
Malayalam: Talakam
Kannada: Ardala
Marathi: 
Hindi: Hartala
Sanskrit: Haritala

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description & usage

This is arsenic trisulphide. It is yellow in color, occurs in two forms, one lumpy and the other flaky. Emmenagogue, antiperiodic, alternative and depilatory in properties. Used in incipient phthisis, asthma, paraplegia, hemiplegia, monoplegia, facial paralysis, gonorrhoea, epilepsy, dropsy and skin diseases.

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