use of colocynth

Colocynth, Coloquintida Bitter AppleHanzal (Unani)Arruthummati (Unripe fruit) (Siddha) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Mesue, Opera de Medica, 1589 Della Materia Medicinale, Andrea Valuassori, 1562 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914 (Köhler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1897) Above: Colocynth Fruit(A Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy, Kraemer, 1909) Right: Colocynth pulp1, Part of a compressed cake of colocynth pulp. 2,…