Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 243
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170520452
Description
Every one should possess an elementary knowledge of home remedies. Even this elementary knowledge of home remedies will go a long way in alleviating a diversity of human suffering and saving valuable lives. All cannot afford to pay the doctor’s bill and purchase costly patent medicines. The results achieved by chamberlain’s Cough Remedy or Venos Lightening Cough Cure can be very easily obtained by a decoction of the vegetable Ladies-finger at the cost of a few pies, or a lozenge made out of black pepper, sugar-candy, liquorice and honey.
This book supplies a handy list of Home Remedies and a list of very useful, practical, potent prescriptions made up from them. There are very good prescriptions for diarrhoea, dysentery, fevers, malaria, indigestion, flatulence, constipation, debility, influenza, bronchitis, cough, scurvy, rtheumatism, biliousness, liver, kidney, lung troubles, etc.
Contents
PUBLISHERS’S NOTE
PREFACE
INTRODUCTORY: THE INDIAN MEDICINAL HERBS
PART-I
Section-I
CHAPTER I
Abrus
CHAPTER II
Ajowan
CHAPTER III
Asafoetida
CHAPTER IV
Aswagandha
CHAPTER V
Babchi Seeds
CHAPTER VI
Betel Leaf
CHAPTER VII
Black Pepper
CHAPTER VIII
Butea Seeds-I
CHAPTER IX
Camphor
CHAPTER X
Cardamom
CHAPTER XI
Catechu
CHAPTER XII
Cinnamon
CHAPTER XIII
Coriander Seeds
CHAPTER XIV
Country Ipecacuantia Tylophora
SECTION -II
CHAPTER XV
Datura
CHAPTER XVI
Edible Hibiscus
CHAPTER XVII
Four O’ Clock Flower
CHAPTER XVIII
Galls or Galla
CHAPTER XIX
Holy Basil
CHAPTER XX
Indian Parselane
CHAPTER XXI
Jatamanji
CHAPTER XXII
Kuppameri
CHAPTER XXIII
Lime Fruit
CHAPTER XXIV
Malabar Night Shade
CHAPTER XXV
Mudar
CHAPTER XXVI
Opium
CHAPTER XXVII
Physic-nut Plant
CHAPTER XXVIII
Ponnangkani
CHAPTER XXIX
Rice
CHAPTER XXX
Sesamum
CHAPTER XXXI
Tamarind
CHAPTER XXXII
Vernonia Seeds
PART-II
CHAPTER XXXIII
ANTISEPTICS AND BAZAAR DRUGS
CHAPTER XXXIV
Dressings and Liniments
CHAPTER XXXV
Patent Ointments and Other Ointments
CHAPTER XXXVI
Patent Medicines for Internal Use
CHAPTER XXXVII
Powders for Inernal Use
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Powders For Exernal Use
CHAPTER XXXIX
Prescriptions
CHAPTER XL
Purgatives and Laxatives
CHAPTER XLI
Tablets for Internal Use
CHAPTER XLII
Tinctures For External Use
CHAPTER XLIII
Piles, Scorpion Sting, Snake Bite, Warts
CHAPTER XLIV
Equipment for Home Remedies Cup-Board
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I - APPENDIX-III