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and others. The following may be taken as examples: Pepper,[1] lac, nard,[2] liquorice, assafœtida occimum, sanctum, bdellium, cinnamon, the chebulic myrobalans, calamus acorus, agallacha,[3] berberis asiatica,[4] myrrh, melia azadirechta, calotropis, (asclepias), and red sandal. To quote Gildemeister:
"Ex. hac Indiae parte asportatur agallochum Kumârense, quod inde nomen cepit." p. 156.
- ↑ Dioscorides also mentions the three peppers. Arabian physicians of the tenth century also describe their properties. See Dymock, Warden and Hooper's "Pharmacographia Indica," III. pp. 176-183.
- ↑ "Nardostachys jatamansi," the Nardin of Dioscorides, called also "Gangitis," because the Ganges flowed from the foot of the mountains where the plant grows: ibid II. p. 234.
- ↑ For the discussion of agallocha (sans. अगुरु), see also "Script. arab. de Reb. Ind.," pp. 65-72.
- ↑ The extract of the wood was also known to the Greeks under the name of Indian Lycium. "Pharm. Ind.," I. 65.
Cf. "Among the strictly Indian products, we have the two kinds of Pepper (long and round), Cardamoms and Ginger (?) ..... the "Dolichos," mentioned by Hippocrates and Theophrastus, as well as by later authors, is considered to be "Phaseolus Vulgaris, and to have been introduced from India in the time of Alexander." Royle: "Antiquity of Hindu Med.," Lond., 1837, p. 121.
