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2 cold season so abundant, that animals are fed with them, and
3 it is believed that when a horse has been fed upon carrots for a
4 month, it will remain free from disease for a year at least.
5 Carot. semina (I.)
6 Carpesium — Pur gas of Cashmere, is not officinal; and
7 from the sample I have brought with me to Europe, botanists
8 have not been able to classify it.
9 Carpesium racemosum — is but little used in Cashmere.
10 Carpes. rac. radix (I.)
11 Carpobalsamum — is officinal in Arabian practice. The
12 Hakims use the seeds in epilepsy, complaints of the stomach,
13 liver, and intestines ; as in colic and hernia.
14 Carpobals. (I.) Vomiting.
15 Carpopogon pruriens, v. Dolichos pruriens.
16 Carthamus tinctorius. — The bastard saffron is officinal
17 at Lahore. Its active principle (which is an acid resinous sub-
18 stance of a superb red color) or its salts — Carthamates — are
19 deserving of trial in medicine. The fixed oil prepared from
20 this plant, is, externally applied, useful in rheumatic pains, and
21 paralytic affections The seeds are laxative. The dried flowers
22 cure jaundice. (Ainslie.)
23 Cartham. tinctor. semina (I.) Diarrhoea.
24 Carvi semina — which are brought from Cashmere to Lahore
25 are a good substitute for Car urn nigrum. The Hakims use these
26 seeds as a stomachic, carminative, and diuretic. It is believed
27 they possess vermifuge properties, and are able to destroy
28 the poison of serpents. They are also administered in neuralgia.
29 Carvi sem. (I.)
30 Caryophyllus aromaticus. — Cloves are considered by the
31 Hakims as strengthened of the stomach (tonic)- and liver,
32 and as sweeteners of the breath.
33 Caryoph. arom. (I.) Diarrhoea. Spinal pains.
34 Cascarji.la — is not officinal at Lahore. What I used was
35 procured from a druggist’s shop at Agra.
36 Cascar. cortex (I.) Accumulation of mucus in the
37 throat. Costiveness. Pain of the joints.
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