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2 Arum campanu latum — grows on the hills, and h
3 brought to the vegetable market at Lahore, during the cold
4 season. This tubercular root is occasionally as large as a man’s
5 head, and knobby. For culinary purposes it is prepared
6 variously, and is also converted into a pickle. In its crude
7 state, this root possesses an acridity, to which the many medical
8 properties it possesses are attributable.
9 Arum. camp. (II.) Boils. Cholera-morbus. Fever with
10 or without eruptions. Flatulency. Ophthalmia.
11 Pain in the umbilical region. Scalding urine.
12 Vomiting.
13 Arum Colocasia. Colocasia esculenta — this tubercular root
14 is cultivated in India as well as in America, Egypt, and Greece.
15 When boiled, it constitutes as staple an article of food in India,
16 as Potatoes in Ireland. Arum triphyllum. Pectoral phthisis, r.
17 Ari Colocas. radix (I.) Catarrh. Colic.
18 Arum gracile, v. Ariscema.
19 Asa dulcis, v. Benzoes.
20 Asa F(etida, or Assaf(etida (Ferula) - is cultivated in AfF-
21 ghanistan, Beloochistan, Persia, and Thibet ; and as all these are
22 hilly and cold countries, this important plant, probably, would
23 grow in Europe also. Besides the well-known gum-resin, which
24 is a drug of importance in trade, the root of this plant, having a
25 similar odor with the gum, is used, medically, in Cashmere,
26 Thibet, etc., and is said, when prepared with vinegar, to be
27 one of the best stomachics. The Hakims consider the gum also
28 as a stomachic, and use it to disperse indurations, to carry off
29 urine, and to promote menstruation.
30 Asae feet, gummi (II.) Diarrhoea.
31 Asarum — of India (according to Dr. Royle, is a species of
32 viola ?) grows in the Cashmerean mountains, whence it is ex-
33 ported to India. It is a fact, well-known to European physicians,
34 that the volatile acridity of the asarabacca roots (rhizoma) di-
35 minishes with age, and finally disappears. Therefore, in the fresh
36 state, it acts merely on the stomach and cutaneous system, pro-
37 ducing vomiting and perspiration; but, when old, it operates simply