1 96
2 pound, buried in borse dung in an
3 iron vessel for three weeks, stirred
4 once daily, and then sulphate of
5 copper one scruple, and Catechu one
6 drachm, added to the strained oil, to
7 blacken the hair) r. The natives
8 of the East also prepare different
9 compounds for blackening the hair,
10 from the juice of the green husks of
11 walnuts.
12 Junip. bacc. (applied with vinegar)
13 baldness. Tohf.
14 Laws, in ., and Indigofera Anil (v. vol. i.
15 p. 167.)
16 Leporineum (?) the blood of the hare
17 for several diseases of the hair, as
18 trichiasis, falling out or premature
19 greyness of the hair, &c. r.
20 Lini sem., powdered and boiled with
21 olive-oil ; to stimulate the growth
22 of hair. r.
23 Lycop., baldness.
24 Melia Azed., the buds pounded and
25 mixed with old dark-green leaves of
26 Calotr. gig., administered internally
27 for seven days, is said to blacken
28 even white hair, f .
29 Merc . v., half an ounce of quicksilver
30 put into a sour pomegranate through
31 a hole, then covered with its own
32 seeds (extracted through the hole)
33 and enveloped in paste, is suspended
34 for six weeks in a warm place.
35 Some of the so - prepared seeds,
36 mixed with rose-oil and used ex-
37 ternally, blacken the hair. r.
38 Nardost ., baldness.
39 Papav. rhcead. fl., with iron filings and
40 oriental sesamum-oil put into an
41 vessel, set in a warm place, and
42 stirred daily for three weeks ; after-
43 wards strained and kept for use.
44 Before each application of this
45 blackening dye, the hair should be
46 washed with the decoction of the
47 fruit of the Phyllanthus Emblic.
48 Phosph ., falling out of the hair.
49 Ran. Ian. rad., falling out of the beard.
50 Rath., loss of the hair of the head.
51 Rosmari, baldness, r.
52 Sennce fol., the continued use, is said
53 to preserve the blackness of the
54 hair. r.
55 Serp. ex., burnt to ashes, and then
56 mixed with vinegar and butter,
57 against the loss of hair. r.
58 Sesam. Or. fol., stimulating the growth
59 of hair (washed with its decoc-
60 tion). R.
61 Semina, macerated in the milky
62 juice of Cactus Tor; from these
63 seeds, when dried, the oil is pressed
64 out, this, if applied to black hair, is
65 said to make it grey.
66 Similar recipes are very numerous
67 in Oriental manuscripts ; but this
68 is not a fitting place to cite them.
69 Talc, n., loss of hair from eruptions.
70 Uvce ursi fol., strengthening and black-
71 ening the hair. r.
72 Hands and feet, feeling of heavi-
73 ness in, at noon.
74 Sisymbr. Irio
75 Hands and fingers — stiffness and
76 SPASMODIC CONTRACTIONS OF, V.
77 Palsy, &c.
78 Hardness of hearing, v. Ear — dis-
79 eases of,
80 Headache in general, as also hea-
81 viness of the head, and
82 Encf.phatitis or phrenitis {in-
83 flammation of the brain, or the
84 cerebral membranes).
85 Hemicrania {headache of one side)
86 &c.
87 Abelm. mosch. sem., hemicrania with
88 troubled sight.