| Content | | Ashtabandham is the mixture of eight materials that are used to fix the Murti of a Hindu deity in the sanctum sanctorum of a temple or at sacred place. | | For pooja purpose only,Kungumam (Thalam poo) is a powder used for social and religious markings in India. | | Sans.-Karpoor; Ghausar. Eng.-Camphor; Guj & Mab.-Kapur, Tam.-Karpooram; Bom.-Bhimseni Kapur; Kafoor; Arab & Urdu.-Kafoor; Fr.-Camphre; Ger.-Kampher.
Uses.-Camphor is of a very peculiar fragrant and penetrating odour,bitter,pungent,and aromatic taste. It is extermely volatile and inuammable burning with a bright light and must smoke. It is good typhoid class; also in measles,ferbrile delirium, whooping cough,hiccup,spasmodic asthma,hysteria,nymphomania dysmenorrhoea,puerperal mania,chorea,epilepsy,atonic gout,melantholia,bronchitis,diarrhoea etc. It is used in rheumatic pains of joints and muscles and externally used as a shimulants and counter irritants. |
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