1 Akum cam I'A'NuiATi.M — grows oh the lulls, tmd is
2 brought to'the vegetable market at Lahore, during the cold
3 season. This tubercular root is occasionally as large as a mans
4 head, and knobby. For culinary purposes it is prepared
5 variously, and is also converted into a pickle. In its crude
6 state, this root, possesses an acridity, to which the many medical
7 properties it possesses are attributable.
8 Arum-camp. ( II.) Boils. Cholera-morbus. Fever with
9 or without eruptions. Flatulency. Ophthalmia.
10 Pain in the umbilical region. Scalding urine.
11 Vomiting.
12 Ajunu Colocasia. Colocasia ewilmta —this tubercular root
13 is cultivated in India as well as in America, Egypt, and Greece.
14 When boiled, it constitutes as staple an article of food in Ir.lin,
15 as Potatoes in Ireland. Arum triph-ylhtM. Pectoral phthisis, a.
16 An Colocats. radix (I.) Catarrh. Colic
17 Arum gracjle, v. Ariscenm .
18 Asa onu’is, v. BenAote.
19 Asa r <p,Tin v, or AssAKO-rriDA {Ferula) - is cultivated in Af¬
20 ghanistan, Bcloochistan, Persia, and 'Thibet; and as all these are
21 hilly and cold countries, this important plant, probably, would
22 grow in Europe also. Besides the well-known gum-resin, which
23 is a drug of importance in trade, the root ot this plant, having a
24 similar odor with the gum, is used, medically, in Cashmere,
25 Thibet, etc., and is said, when prepared with vinegar, to he
26 one of the uest stomachics. The Hakims consider the gum also
27 as a ffomachic, and use it to disperse indurations, to carry off
28 urine, and to promote menstruation.
29 Asne fret, yummt (II.) Diarrhoea.
30 As ahum— of India (according to Dr. lioyh. is a species of
31 viola P) grows in the Cashmorean mountains, whence it is ex¬
32 ported to India. It is a fact, well-known to European physicians,
33 that the volatile acridity of the asarabacca roots (rhizome) di¬
34 minishes with age, and finally disappears. Therefore, in the fresh
35 state, it acts merely on the stomach and cutaneous system, pro
36 during vomiting and perspiration; but, when old, it operates simple