Sans.

Trivrit.

Triputά.

Vern. Teori. Beng. Nisoth. Tarbud, Hind.

Two varieties of trivrit are described by most writers, namely, sveta or white and krishna or black. The white variety is preferred for medicinal use as a moderate or mild cathartic. The black variety is said to be a powerful drastic and to cause vomiting, faintness and giddiness. Trivrit has been used as a purgative from time immemorial and is still used as such by native practitioners, alone, as well as in various combinations. In fact this medicine is the ordinary cathartio in use amongst natives, just as jalap is among Europeans. The usual mode of administering it is as follows. About two scruples of the root are rubbed into a pulp with water and taken with the addition of rock salt and ginger or sugar and black pepper.

A compound powder called Nάrάcha churna,1 is thus prepared. Take of trivrit root two tolas, long pepper two tolas, sugar eight tolas; powder and mix. About a scruple of the powder is recommended to be taken before meals in constipation with hard faeces.

Tumburάdya churna,2 Take of the fruits of Xanthoxylum hostile (turnburu ), rock, vit and sonchal salts, ajowan, pachak root, yavakshara, chebulic myrobalan, assafoetida and babwang seeds, one part each, trivrit three parts; powder the ingredients and mix. Dose, about a drachm with warm water, in painful dyspepsia with costiveness and flatulence.

In anasarca supposed to be caused by deranged bile, a decoction of trivrit, gulancha, and the three myrobalans is recommended to be taken. Milk diet should be prescribed along with this medicine.3