Kushtha. Vern. Kur, Pάchak. Hind. Beng.

The Aplotaxis auriculata is a native of the mountains around Cashmere, and has been used in Hindu medicine from an early age. Its root is described as aromatic, stimulant and useful in cough, asthma, fever, dyspepsia and skin diseases. It enters also into the composition of some pastiles for fumigation.

Agnimuhha diurna.1 Take of assafoetida, one part, Acorus Calamus (vachά) two parts, long pepper, three parts, ginger, four parts, ajowan five parts, chebulic myrobalan, six parts, plumbago root, seven parts, and the root of Aplotaxis auriculata, eight parts. Powder the ingredients, mix and pass the powder through a cloth. Dose, twenty to forty grains with whey or wine in dyspepsia with loss of appetite.

A liniment composed of the root of Aplotaxis auriculata, kanjika and castor oil is recommended by several writers to be applied to the o rehead in cephalalgia.2 The fried root, mixed with mustard oil, is applied to the scalp in porrigo. Equal parts of the powdered root and of rock salt, mixed with mustard oil and fermented paddy water (kάnjika), are rubbed on joints affected with chronic disease.3