Potluppu (or) Saltpetre (or) yavaksara

Description

( Sans.- Yavaksara;  Sainthava. Hind . Ben. Punj. & Duk . – Shora; Shorakhar. Eng.-  Saltpetre; Nitre; Nitate of potash; Purufied  Nitre. Arab.- Abkar; Ubkir.  Pers.- Shoraba; Shore. Hind. & Guj.- Shor. Mah.- Shora -mitha.  Tam.- pottil- uppu. Mah.- Veti- uppu. Can.- Patuppu; Sendur lavana.  Kon.- Sindurlavana. Sinh.- potlunu.  Malay.- Sundwa. Burm, Yandzeing; Yan- zing )

USES ;   It acts on the vascular system and thus reduces the  frarquency of the pulse. given the solive form or in concentrated solution it acts as irritent. It is useful also in the early stages of dropsy, in cases of smallpox, measles, influenza, catarrh, gonorrhoea,acute rheumatism,bleeding from the lungs, stomach, uterus or other internal organs attened by fever.