Taru - Background
TARU PRAMANA (1): The Balinese Pharmacopoeia by Dr. Wolfgang Weck TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN ORIGINAL by Thomas Reuter 1993
In the usadas (2) which are found on the island of Bali countless prescriptions are
mentioned for the treatment of all kinds of illness. In their compositions plants naturally
take a prominent role. However, were one to expect that, out of their frequent mention,
conclusions can be drawn about the specific uses of certain plants, one would soon
realize that a whole number of them are in fact used simultaneously to treat entirely
different symptoms. It is not even uncommon to find that plants with opposite effects are
mixed together in the same prescriptions.
Such contradictions could lead one to reject the entire Balinese collection of
prescriptions as meaningless or not worth considering; a conclusion which one indeed
finds in the European literature. However, in reading the Usadas, one must not forget that
prescriptions contained therein are not homogeneous but that they reflect the opinions of
particular balians (3) (dukuns) and the different teachings about the meaning of medicines
1) Taru = plant, pramana = power, life force.
2) From the Sanskrit word "osadhi" medicinal herbs: medicinal lontars (texts on dried palm leaf strips),
which contain descriptions of illnesses or merely the names of illnesses or their symptoms, together with
the remedy in the form of a prescription.
3) Balinese doctors and healers.
which they represent. Namely, while there are healers who attribute an effect to each of
the individual constituents of their recipes, others see them merely as vehicles for the
conveyance of magical forces. (4) It is not necessarily the case that the consistent use of
the same plants, or of plants from a limited selection, for this latter purpose is an
unnecessary step. One can imagine that for the transportation of particular forces,
corresponding carrying mediums are also required. One should consider in this context
the doctrine of transmigration and signature.
Since these healing mediums or medicinal plants are listed in the usadas
irrespective of the viewpoints of the different balians from whom they originate, a
colourful jumble is created. Proper medicines are found next to magical ones or next to
magical incantations and other mystical things. In order to extract out of the recipes of the
usadas the healing effects that are attributed to particular plants in Balinese opinion, one
would first have to order them according to the above criteria. What I have been trying to
illustrate is that one cannot simply regard these recipes in their totality as a Balinese
Pharmacopoeia. This has been a common mistake.
There is, apart from the usadas, another lontar text which well deserves the label
of "Pharmacopoeia" since it lists medicinal plants together with a description of their
characteristics, properties and applications. This text is meant for the use of such balians
who assume that there are specific healing powers in a number of plants. The text names
these properties and mentions at the same time, as an example of their application, a
disease or a group of symptoms against which the plant material can be applied in a
particular way. This text is named "Taru Pramana" or "Pramana ning Taru", that is, `the
life force of plants'. This lontar is considerably more difficult to obtain than other lontars
4) Apart from this, a number of balians are fundamentally opposed to the usage of medicines of any form
and apply only holy water [lit.: `water that has been spoken upon'] (as the medium of magical forces) or
magical formulae. For more details see Weck, Heilkunde und Volkstum in Bali, 1937).
in Bali since it does not enjoy as wide a distribution as the usadas and is only in few
hands. Insofar as we understand the handling of medical lontars among Balinese, such a
precious possession is much more jealously guarded and is not readily accessible to the
general public.
One edition of the entire treatise, after a brief introduction, lets the medicinal
plants appear as speaking entities in front of a learned ascetic and the gods in order to
speak themselves about their effects. In the other editions (5) two parts can be
distinguished: general theoretical reflections and a list of individual plants with their
respective descriptions. the general part develops as a support a philosophical system
which can be traced back to the Indian Veda, and which has had an effect on the current
opinions of different groups of healers in Bali. One of these text expresses itself as
follows (6): "Out of the rays of the sun emerge those plants which form branches, from the
rays of the moon emerge those which form creepers (7), from the rays of the stars, those
5) I have had before me five different editions of the same texts, or parts thereof, under the same title. Two
of them I owe to the Kirtya Liefrink Van der Tuuk lontar collection in Singaraja. The list of medicinal
plants at the end of the document appears to be a compilation from two lontars since several names have
been mentioned twice.
6) It is difficult to draw quotation from Balinese lontars without detailed explanations since almost every
line contains expressions which may be familiar to the Balinese and the initiate and which evoke in front of
his mental eye a wealth of different associations and symbols. The latter must be explained to the outsider
by many detours. The above text begins by mentioning that " the origin of plants can be traced back to
snatryo". This (Kawi) term is interpreted there as a combination of "sna" = to originate from, "tri" = three
and "yo" = sunya = emptiness / void, oneness. (Elsewhere "sna" means `shine', "ya" means `to originate
from', whereby one could also arrive at a plausible explanation.) The text continues to explain that the
trinity ("tri") refers to the syllables A-U-Ma, whereby the A represent the sun, U the moon, and Ma the
stars. The three sillbles are nothing than those in OM (AUM), the sound blended holy root syllable of the
Indians, from which the Balinese have fashioned ONG (AUNG). The symbolic character for ONG is ó and
is refered to by the Balinese as "ULUCANDRA" (head of the Moon). It is common in all Balinese text and
mantras (magical incantations). Written above the single vowels A-E-I-O-U, it produces a nasal tone ANGENG-
ING-UNG and special magical power. It symbolizes apart from the trinity of sun - moon - stars
mentioned above, all kinds of other trinities such as Brahma - Visnu - Iswara, female - male - neuter, hot -
cold - lukewarm. The middle part of the symbol has particular significance as a symbol of the unity of the
trinity, as a circle, drop, unification of the male and female principles, as mental concentration in yoga and
so on. It is called "Windu" which, according to Balinese exegesis, is a contraction of the Kawi words "waindu"
= sun-moon. (Indu is also the falling drop of the sacred soma drink, symbol of the full moon.) The
expression "Windu" will be encountered frequently in this text.
7) Amongst these are also numbered all plants with aerial roots.
which have no branches." And further, "what comes out the sun, moon and stars,
becomes one in the windu (6a), turns into cloud and brings forth the rain which brings life
to all living creatures. And Sang Hyang Surya (the sun), Sang Hyang Wulan (the moon),
Sang Hyang Lintang (the stars) together enter into each plant". So each pant unifies
within itself all of the three elements of the trinity (sun-moon-star), even if it is associated
in another sense with only one of them as described above. The further elaborations in the
text show that the three qualities of plants which result from this classification are `heat',
`coldness' and `lukewarmness'. (8) These qualities have their seat in the different parts of
the plant. In the Taru Pramana these parts are: the juice (sap), roots, trunk (stalk), bark,
wood (flesh), leaves, flowers and fruit.
The criteria for determining the effect of a plant are its colours, consistency, smell
and flavour. The most systematic classification on the basis of colour and consistency is
given for the `juice' [Germ. `Saft'] (9) of plants. In this system the colour of the juice is
said to depend on the influence of the sun, moon and stars which is explained as follows:
"In all plants which have red juice, Sang Hyang Surya enters into the roots, Sang Hyang
Wulan into the stem and Sang Hyang Lintang into the leaves. In all plants which have
yellow juice, Sang Hyang Wulan enters into the roots, Sang Hyang Lintang into the
trunk, Sang Hyang Surya into the leaves. In all plants which have white juice Sang
Hyang Lintang into the roots, Sang Hyang Surya into the trunk, Sang Hyang Wulan into
the leaves. (10) In this context nothing further is mentioned about the efficacy of plants in
relation to the colour of their juice [or sap]. This information is supplied in the
6a) Refer to Note 6.
8) The same concept of the three functions of plants is found in many other Balinese text. The diseases also
are divided into three such groups.
9) `Juice' generally refers to the sap or the liquid coming out of the trunk or stalk of a plant in response to an
injury. If it refers to something other than the plant's sap, it is more precisely defined. It does not refer to
the liquid obtained from the pressing out of particular parts of the plant.
10) I have been unable to find an explanation why in this case the colours red - black - white, and the
corresponding gods, Brahma - Wisnu - Iswara, are not chosen as they otherwise always are.
continuation of the text where a whole number of colours and shades, other than the
above mentioned colours red, yellow and white, are enumerated together with their
associated functions. No reason is given to explain why different colours have a
particular meaning for the evaluation of the juice. However, an explanation can be
discovered easily in the mystical associations which exist between these colours, cardinal
direction, gods, and the already mentioned sacred root syllable `Om' (`Ong') (see Note 6).
Numerous Balinese texts refer to these relations. According to the texts, the `Windu' (see
Note 6), symbol of the mental concentration of the god Siwa during the creation of the
world, radiates forth images through his yoga which become gods. Out of such
emanations are created, one after the other, the gods Brahma, Wisnu, Iswara, and further
Mahadewa, Rudera, Sangkara, Sambu and Mahisora, that is, eight in all. These position
themselves at the four main cardinal points, south, north, east, west, and the four
intermediate cardinal points, north-east, south-east, north-west, south-west, grouped
around Siwa who thrones in the centre. To the above cardinal points and their gods
correspond the colours red, black, white, yellow, and blue, pink, green, orange, which
united or mixed together form the multicoloured or crystal clear centre (Siwa).
The same eight colour varieties (or nine together with the center) are also
perceived in plant juices by the Balinese. However, the effects which are attributed to
them, in correspondence to this scheme, are limited to three qualities, which is only
logical considering their origin (see note 6). These effects are `hot', `cold' and
`lukewarm'(11): the plant juice [sap] is hot if it has a `southerly' colour, that is, red, pink or
11) Concerning deseases (compare Note 8.), more detailed distinctions of the lukewarm conditions are made.
Namely, heat + coldeness, that is, one part of the body is hot, the other cold; the body is hot on the outside
and cold on the inside or vice versa; the heat (in the whole body or a particular place) is enveloped in
coldness or, vice versa, the coldness is enveloped by heat. It is remarkable in this context that the yellow
and the red coloring of the conjunctiva of the eyes indicates heat on the inside of the body, blue or gray
coloration indicates coldness, white or pale coloration indicates a total lack of inner warmth. With these
conditions, it is nevertheless possible that there be external heath in certain parts of the body or the whole
body.
orange, it is cold if it has a `northerly' colour, that is, black, blue or green, it is lukewarm
if it is a mixture of a warm (southerly) and a cold (northerly) colour.
The `easterly' white and the `westerly' yellow are also, like their mixture, regarded
as hot(12); mixed with red they are always hot, with other colours they are lukewarm. (13)
The colour of the center is clear like water, crystal clear is cold, when it shines
very cold.
So much about the colours of the juice [sap]. About consistency it is said that:
sticky thick sap is always hot; thin, stringy (slimy) sap is cold. Apart from this it is also
said that the bark of all plants which have sticky sap is hot.
The discussion of the other parts of a plant, such as the flowers, fruit, root, bark,
wood or flesh, takes two forms. On the one hand, in the list of medicinal plants, they are
labelled as hot, cold or lukewarm without further explanations. On other occasions they
are used for the classifications of the particular plants. This takes place in a special
chapter of the lontar text "Usada Ratu Ajhana" which has the title "Taru Pramana".
Therein is mentioned that, in order to judge the character of the medicinal plant, one must
pay attention to the flowers or, or in their absence to the fruits, furthermore to the odour
and flavour of the wood (flesh). If the flowers of the plant are white, yellow or green it is
hot; if they are red or blue it is cold, and if they are multicoloured it is lukewarm. Sweet
or sour tasting wood or flesh identifies the plant as hot, bitter or pungent flavour as cold.
(14)
12) The white and yellow shine of Iswara (east) and Mahadewa (west) are described as `flaming', sun rise
and sun set.
13) There are some rare exceptions caused by the consistency or some other characteristic of the juice.
14) A strong or pungent odour, however, characterizes a plant as hot with a cooling flavour (supplementary
oral communication).
In this edition of the Taru Pramana a fundamentally different viewpoint is
adopted insofar as a plant as a whole is considered to be either cold, hot or lukewarm on
the basis of a single characteristic. The view that there are three different qualities in the
particular parts of the same plant is based on purely philosophical speculations. However
the present teaching takes a more magical perspective. That these two viewpoints coexist
and are fused together in Bali is well known.
However, since any teaching according to the Balinese should be understood cum
grano salis, the Taru Pramana also contains a lot of complicating criteria, which may
have been added later. These must be considered and can provide a good means of escape
from embarrassment if it turns out that hypothesis and reality are irreconcilable. Such
criteria are for example the season and the time of the day (15) during which the medicine
is collected. (That a favourable day in the calender is to be chosen is taken for granted).
So it is said that in the sixth (Balinese) month the life force of plants is distributed as
follows: in the tip is heat, below (in the root) is coldness, in the middle (trunk, stalk) is
lukewarmness. It is also emphasized on this occasion that in the bast, below the bark of
tree, is coldness while further within, in the soft wood (splint), is heat. Concerning the
leaves it is said that old leaves are hot, semi-mature leaves are lukewarm, and the young
sprouting leaf tips are cold.
Concerning the hour of the day one must consider that a large tree, the well know
waringin (Ficus benjamina) is apparently chosen as an example, is cold during the time
after sun rise during the first hour, approximately between 6.00 and 7.30 am. In the third
hour between 9.00 and 10.30 am. the tree is cold in the south and hot in the north. In the
fourth hour between 10.30 and noon it is completely hot. Then, after 12 p.m. it becomes
15) The Balinese divide a day, between 6am. and 6pm., into eight hours.
cold in the east (16) until in the evening it is cold in all parts. According to the same source
all parts of a plant are cold in the morning, in the first hour, and lukewarm in the second
hour, hot at noon and cold in the evening or at night. It must be mentioned that this
dependence of the temperature conditions on the daily temperature variations due to the
position of the sun, has little to do with the mystical hypothesis about the colour of the
juice, for example. Apart from that it must be considered that the warming of a large tree
on the north side due to the position of the sun takes place during the larger part of the
year, due to the somewhat southerly position of the island of Bali, but not during the
fourth months that the sun moves to the south in Bali, during which the tree would
therefore have to be hot in the south and cold in the north.
Whichever version of the Taru Pramana is looked at it is made clear in each of
them that it is essential for the balian to know whether plants substance should be
addressed as hot, cold or lukewarm. This knowledge is important for him because all
diseases, in his opinion, can be divided into the same categories. The fundamental
principle is that "cold diseases" are treated with hot plants or parts of plants, hot diseases
with cold plants, and lukewarm diseases with lukewarm plants or a mixture of hot and
cold ones (see Note 11).
Although this is not really part of the topic I would like to mention finally that the
"Taru Pramana" emphasizes that there are no diseases of plants. What is meant are
internal diseases. Destruction or damage of plant growth, crop failure due to insects or
other parasites or through the curse of the gods, are of course known to the Balinese.
Internal diseases cannot occur in plants because, even though they have an atma (soul)(17),
16) Added to this is the unexplained rule, that the medicine has to be obtained from the western part of the
tree.
17) The doctrine of the migration of souls also through plants which had long been abbandoned in ancient
India by the time of the Hindu invasion to Bali, did not reach Bali. According to the Chandogya-Upanishad
on the Samaveda, a certain category of souls is mentioned which reach the moon after cremation through
their atma is not accompanied by Kala and Dewa as is the atma of human beings. Dewa
and Kala, good and evil, not only regulate the character and behaviour of a human being
but he becomes under there rule either a "leyak" (18) and sick, or a "dukun" (see Note 3)
and "medicine" (i.e. he remains healthy and impervious to diseases).(19)
The effects and characteristics of particular medicinal plants, as I have already
mentioned elsewhere (see Note 3), are explained in the following ways:
Firstly the plants appear before Siwa and the other gods to inform them "because the
Gods did not possess the ability to heal sick people, in which they were no match for the
Taru Pramana and for which reason Siwa asked the plants to instruct him." Secondly,
they step in front of the ascetic Sang Prabhu Empu Kuturan who was given the power to
call the plants and ask them about their uses as medicines by the goddess Durga, on Siwa
instruction, after he had performed forty-two days of ascetic practice on a burial ground.
The same was achieved by another ascetic, younger brother of the above, Sang Prabhu
Pungung Tiwas, who was given this boon by the god Ludera, who wrote it on his tongue.
After the plants had been questioned their words were recorded by the nephew of
Kuturan Sang Prabhu Narajasa, who was also well versed in the teachings and ascetics.
The enumeration of plants below is nothing other than the protocol which was taken by
Narajasa of their conversation with Kuturan. The monotonous repetition of the same
words at the appearance of each new plant is only interrupted by the "Kepu" tree
(Bombase Malabaricum) who responded to Kuturan's question: "now, Kepu, what are
you useful for?" with the counter-question: why, oh lord, do you ask at this time for all
the smoke (by detours). From there they return by the way they have come to the ether, from the ether into
the wind, after they have become wind they turn into smoke and from that into fog. After they have become
fog, they turn into a cloud and thereafter they rain downward. They are then born as rice and barley, herbs
and trees, sesame and beans. It is difficult for them to escape this conditon except by being consumed as
food and ejected as sperm in which case they can develop further. (Dr.P. Deussen, 60 Upanishads of the
Veda).
18) What is peculiar of a leyak, a term perhaps best translated as `werewolf', is the inversion of all concepts
of good and evil.
19) From the lontar text "Sang Gana Pati" among others.
plants to appear in front of you? That I ask you.". He receives the response from the
ascetic that he was given the power by the goddess Durga to summon all plants and ask
them about their medicinal usage. In response to these words the Kepu tree bowed and
spoke: "Yes, master, I myself cannot be used in any way as a medicine but I have a
relative called Kepuh (Sterculia Foetida) who may be considered a medicine." The latter
then appears and the questioning continues.
Those expression which are constantly repeated I have omitted and only listed the
Balinese names along with their botanical purpose. (20) In the same order as they are listed
in the Taru Pramana. I would like to emphasise that this list does not contain all of the
medicinal plants used by the Balinese.
Some comments about Balinese expressions frequently occurring in the list and
their translations should be made before they are listed. Where I use the term "character"
[Wesen] in reference to a plant, it corresponds to words "daging" (high Balinese), "isi"
(low Balinese) and "hawa" (Kawi). These terms are used in the text along side each other
and do not indicate, in this case, anything substantial but an inner character (Mal. Arab
"dzat"). Learned Balinese explained to me that the meaning is also equivalent to
"pramana" or "kekwatan".
The Balinese terms for hot, cold, and lukewarm in reference to plants are other
than those in reference to diseases. Heat in relation to the disease is "panas" or "kebus"
while in relation to plants one speaks of "hanget", which actually means warming.
Coldness of the body is "nyem" (henyem) which means cold or fresh. Coldness in plants
is called "tis" (hetis) meaning moist cold, cooling. Lukewarmness of the body is
"sebaha", actually the body's natural temperature, lukewarmness in a plant is
20) The same difficulties are encountered here as in other areas (such as the terms for different diseases).
The same term may denote different plants in different areas [in Bali] and the same plant is denoted by
different terms in different areas.
"dumalada". These terms correspond, it seems, to European instructions which also use
the terms `cooling' and `warming'.
The terms "uwap", "urap", and "boreh" (hodak) indicate a mixture, a kind of
paste, ointment or grease, prepared from ground solid substances with addition of juicy,
liquid or oily ingredients and used for smearing or rubbing onto the body or particular
parts of the body. "Uwap" is applied to the stomach, "urap" to the throat and head, and
"boreh" to the entire body and limbs.
Some substances are taken regularly as a "medicine", even where there are no
symptoms of disease. They are considered to be strengthening and prophylactic. For the
same reason some "boreh" are also used daily.
BALINESE NAME AND
BOTANICAL
IDENTIFICATION
CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE PLANT
APPLICATION
1. Slagwi,
silaguri, sidaguri.
Sida rhombifolia
Linn.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
As a drink for
infants during
the first five
days of life.
As `uwap' onto
the stomach of
infants.
2) Dapdap, dadap.
Erythrina
lithosperma Miq.
Character: cooling
Bark: cooling
Onto the skin of
the abdomen,
mixed with ketumbar
(Coriandrum
sativum) and 11
seeds of bebolong
(Malaleuka
leukadendron)
and black salt
(salt mixed with
charcoal);
against bloated
stomach.
3. Kelor
Moringa oleifera
Lamk.
Character: cooling
Juice: red
Root: warming
Leaves are
mashed for eye
diseases
together with
the juice of
djeruk nipis
(Citrus
aurantifolia)
and black salt
(cf. 2) for eye
drops.
4. Bila
Aegle Marmelos
Corr.
Character: warming
Leaves: warming
Root: lukewarm
Juice: warming
Mixed with kesuna
djangu (Allium
sativum + Acorus
calamus) and
vinegar, for
swollen legs.
5. Klotjo,
Klentjing
Spondius pinnata
Kurz.
Character: warming
Leaves: warming
Root: lukewarm
See 4.
Juice: warming
Bark: cooling
6. Kepuh
Gossampinus
heptaphylla Bakh.
Not usable
6a. Kepah
Sterculia foetida
Linn.
Leaves: warming
Root: cooling
Bark: lukewarm
Against
paralysis, mixed
with chalk
powder and djeruk
nipis (see above).
7. Blatung gada
Euphorbia
antiquorum Linn.
Character:
`alkaline'
Juice: white
Juice with
(local) arak, kunir
(Curcuma longa,
C. domestica)
and gamongan
(Zingiber
americanus)
against "Ila" (all
kinds of skin
afflictions).
8. Pakel
Mangifera foetida
Lour.
Character: warming
Juice: red
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
For abortion,
mixed and taken
with white
pepper and chalk
powder (sieved).
9. Sumaga, Semangka
Citrullus vulgaris
Schrad.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: lukewarm
Against
rheumatic pains;
mixed with
vinegar and
three slices of
temu tis (Curcuma
Zedoaria).
10. Kepundung
Baccaurea racemosa
Muell.
Character: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: white,
warming
Applied on
swollen cheek,
mixed with masuwi
(Massoia
aromatica) and
sintok (Cinnamonum
Sintok).
11. Poh Character: warming Mixed with musi
(see 119.) and
Mangifera Indica
Linn.
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: red, warming
red sulphur,
spat onto the
pit of the
stomach, against
maketug (cramps in
the pit of the
stomach area)
12. Tjenangga
Tjananga odorata
Character: cooling
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: red
Medicine to be
taken orally
(further
information
missing).
13. Suren
Toona sureni Merr.
Character: lukewarm
Root: warming
Leaf tips mixed
with 11 slices
of temu tis (see
above) for
application on
swellings.
14. Sentul
Sandoricum Koetjape
Merr.
Root: warming
Juice: white
Root, leaves and
bark mixed, with
three slices of
temu tis (see
above), spat
onto the
stomach, for
diarrhoea.
15. Sotong
Psidium Guajava
Linn.
Character: warming
Juice: white
Flavour: `juicy'
Leaf tips ground
and applied to
the navel as a
means of
containing
watery
diarrhoea, mixed
with ketumbar (see
above), 3 seeds
of bebolong (see
above) and old
vinegar.
16. Gatep
Inocarpus edulis
Forst.
Character: cooling
Juice: red
Root: cooling
Leaves: warming
Bark mixed with
candy sugar, to
be taken against
dysentery.
17. Pule
Alstonia scholaris
Character: lukewarm
Juice: warming
Leaf tips with
sugar and
roasted coconut,
R. Br.
Root: cooling
to be taken
against
stomatitis.
18. Tjempaga
Michelia champaga
Linn.
Character: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: white
Root: lukewarm
The juice of the
leaves is mixed
with dust from a
cross-road and
dripped into the
eyes, against
mental illness
caused by a
trauma.
19. Kliki, djarak
pager
Jatropha Curcas
Linn.
Character: warming
Juice: white
Leaves: cooling
The root is
taken against
pyuria, also the
leaves mixed
with roasted
tamarind and temu
tis (see above).
Leaves mixed
with onion and
adas (Foeniculum)
as "uwap".
20. Naka, nangka
Artocarpus integra
Merr.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Juice: white
Against a stitch
three leaves are
grounded with
red pepper and
placed on the
pit of the
stomach as
"uwap".
21. Awar-awar
Ficus septica Burm.
Character: warming
Bark: warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: white,
warming
Root: cooling
Bark mixed with
honey and tjendana
(Santalum
Album)- juice to
be taken against
rheumatic pains
with fever.
22. Jeruju
Dilivaria
ilicifolia.
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Roots or leaves
mixed with onion
and "adas" (see
above) as "uwap"
against
rheumatic pains.
23. Pulet Character: lukewarm Leaves are
Urena lobata Linn. Leaves: warming
Root: cooling
Juice: warming
placed onto
swollen fingers,
the root as
"uwap".
24. Blingbing
Averrhoa Bilimbi
Linn.
Juice: white Against
shortness of
breath, leaves
are spat onto
[the patient].
Bark mixed with
temu tis (see
above), five
ketumbar (see
above) and lengkwas
(Alpinia
Gelanga) as well
as three slices
of kunir (see
above) to be
taken.
25. Delima
Punica granatum
Linn.
Character: lukewarm
Leaves: warming
Root: cooling
Juice: white,
warming
The fruits are
mixed with an
egg from a black
hen, honey and
two slices of temu
tis, to be taken
against stomach
pains.
26. Tangi
Lagerstroemia
speciosa Pers.
Character: warming
Juice: lukewarm
Leaves: cooling
Root: warming
Bark mixed with
coconut oil and
eleven dried
sirih leaves,
against
restlessness.
27. Kekopoh
Physalis angulata
Linn.
Bark: lukewarm
Leaves: cooling
Juice: white
Root: cooling
Leaves mixed
with pulasai
(Alyxia
Stellata) and
white onion, as
"uwap" onto the
stomach of
pregnant women.
28. Buyung-buyung
putih
Spilanthes Acmella
Character: warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Roots and leaves
mixed with masuwi
(see above),
white pepper and
Murr.
Bark: cooling
Juice: cooling
black salt (see
above), to be
spat upon the
pit of the
stomach against
cramps.
29. Tabia dakeb
Capsicum annuum
Linn.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Bark: warming
Leaves mixed
with dry sirih,
pepper, tamarind
and two slices
of temu tis, to be
taken orally (no
further
information).
30. Kepel
Cynometra ramiflora
Linn.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Juice: white
Bark mixed with
duck excrement
and sugar, to
induce
contractions in
childbirth.
31. Blingbing manis
Averrhoa carambola
Linn.
Leaves: warming
Root: warming
Juice: white
Mixed with gamongan
(Zingiber
Americanus) and
garlic, to be
spat on to the
stomach of the
pregnant.
32. Kesimbukan
Paederia foetida
Linn.
Anotis hirsuta Miq.
Character: warming
Juice: white
Mixed with clay
obtained from
the cell built
by an ichneumon
fly, which must
be located
inside a
houseyard
temple. As an
external
application onto
the fontanelle
against child
cramps.
33. Gandola
Basella rubra Linn.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Juice: red
11 leaves mixed
with vinegar and
5 slices of
lengkwas (see
above), as a
draught against
cholera.
34. Kepepe
Oxystelma
esculentum (?)
Character: warming
Juice: white
Mixed with kemenyan
(Styrux
Bezoica), djeruk
nipis, (see above )
and tjendana juice
(see above), as
a draught
against cholera.
The bark with
vinegar and
spices as "boreh"
against cholera.
35. Paya, paria
Momordica Charantia
Linn.
Momordica tristis.
Character: lukewarm
Leaves: warming
Root: cooling
Juice: white
21 leaves mixed
with honey,
candy sugar and
11 white
peppercorns to
be taken against
"limuh" (`weak
nerves').
36.Tuwung, terong
Solanum Melongena
Linn.
Character: warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: cooling
Root mixed with
masuwi (see
above), sintok
(Cinnamomum
sintok) and
powdered chalk
as "boreh".
37. Uyah-uyah
Ficus alba Reinw.
Ficus quercifolia
Roxb.
Character: warming
Root: cooling
Juice: white
Bark: warming
Leaves are
ground with
arsenic and
powdered chalk,
against
pustulous
eczema.
38. Sumanggi
Oxalis corniculata
Linn.
Character: cooling Leaves ground
and boiled, the
decoction is
used for washing
eczema caused by
scabies.
39. Pancar sona
Tinospora coriacea
Beumee.
Character: warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Juice: white
Juice mixed with
sulasih mihik sanstum,
tamarind and
three slices of
lengkwas (see
above) against
nausea. Yellow
leaves with
black salt (see
above), ground
(no further
information).
40. Juwet, jwet,
duwet
Eugenia cumini
Merr.
Character: warming
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
Juice: white
Bark ground,
onto syphilis
ulcers on the
genitals. Juice
also, mixed with
arsenic and djeruk
nipis (see above).
41. Nyuh gading
Cocos nucifera
Linn.
Against all
impurities of
the body,
including
psychic ones,
most usually
inscribed with
magical symbols
or drawings.
42. Tjereme,
tjarmen, tjremen
Phyllantus acidus
Skeels
Character: warming
Root: cooling
Juice: white
Bark, ground
finely with
coconut oil and
heated; applied
to cracked skin
on the hands and
fingers.
43. Manas, Nenas
Ananas comosus
Merr.
Character: warming
Leaves: cooling
Fruit: cooling
Root: cooling
Fruit juice
squeezed out,
against
gonorrhoea.
44. Sempol
Hedychium
coronarium Koen.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves: lukewarm
As `uwap' mixed
with onion and
fennel, against
fever.
45. Miyana cemeng
Coleus
atropurpureus
Benth.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
16 leaves half
cooked in
coconut oil (no
further
information).
46. Angcak
Ficus Rumphii Bl.
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Bark and juice
mixed with masuwi
(see above),
Juice: white
djebug-arum
(Myristica
fragram) and
tjengkeh (Eugenia
aromatica), as
`boreh' onto the
legs against
fatigue.
47. Wani
Kemang magnifera
Mangifera caesia
Jack.
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: warming
The juice is
dripped into the
ears if there is
pussy discharge.
Bark mixed with
kemenyan idem (see
above).
48. Taru bang
Pterocarpus indica.
Willd. (?)
Character: like
fire
Root: lukewarm
Juice: white
Leaves are
placed onto
eczema, also
juice mixed with
cob webs from
the kitchen, djeruk
nipis (see above)
and chalk
powder.
49. Kakara manis
Dolichos Lablab
Linn.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Root mixed with
kemiri (Aleurites
molucana) and
roasted
tamarind. Leaves
are drunk with
water (no
further
information).
50. Gedang
Carica papaya Linn.
Bark: lukewarm
Leaves: cooling
Sap: warming
Root: cooling
Root mixed with
honey and
sandalwood sap,
as "uwap" against
abortus [disease
caused by Bang's
bacillus?].
51. Ketimun gantung
Cucumis sativus
Linn.
Character: cooling Fruit juice, to
be taken. When
used for the
treatment of
abortus [see
50.], it is
mixed with candy
sugar and the
water from a
yellow coconut
and taken
orally.
52. Keladi
Colocasia esculenta
Schott.
Leaves: cooling
Juice: cooling
Root: cooling
Mixed with onion
and tamarind and
rubbed onto the
legs; against
restlessness.
53. Legundi,
Liligundi
Vitex trifolia
Linn.
Character: warming
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Leaves are
brought to boil
in coconut oil
once and applied
externally;
against heat [of
the body?].
54. Base
Chavica betle
Chavica auriculata
Character: warming
Leaves: warming
Root: warming
Mixed with an
egg from a black
hen, honey and 7
slices of lengkwas
(see above),
against weakness
of the nervous
system and
dizziness. The
young leaves are
used as a drink.
55. Djamuh-djamuh
[?]
Character: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves mixed
with onion and
fennel, as `uwap'
for lying-in
women.
56. Tebu
Saccharum
officinarum Linn.
Character: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: warming
11 small pieces
of bark mixed
with pressed out
cane juice;
against
haemorrhoids.
57. Terong
Solanum Melongena
Linn.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Juice: warming
Leaves mixed
with pulasai (see
above); against
`sarab'
(children's
disease of the
lower abdominal
area).
58. Madja gau Character: lukewarm Against nausea.
Aquillaria
malaccensis Lamk.
Juice: warming
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Leaves mixed
with vinegar and
black salt (see
above).
59. Lemo
Citrus amblyocarpa.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Juice: cooling
Grated bark
taken against
tingling
sensations.
Juice mixed with
11 white pepper
corns, to be
taken orally.
60. Ketjubung
Datura fastuosa
Linn.
Character: warming
Juice: warming
Bark: warming
Roots and leaves
finely ground,
against illness
caused by magic.
Also, juice and
bark mixed with
water from a
water jug from a
cemetery.
61. Skape
Dioscorea hispida
Dennst.
Character: cooling
Flowers: cooling
Root: cooling
Juice: cooling
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Leaves and bark
mixed with onion
and fennel,
applied
externally to
ulcers on the
knee.
62. Pangi
Pangium edule
Reinw.
Character: warming
Root: lukewarm
Juice: lukewarm
Leaves: warming
Bark: warming
Fruits are
inserted into
the nose against
nose bleeding.
Leaves and bark
mixed with candy
sugar.
63. Ikut lutung
putih
Acalypha hispida
Burm.
Character: lukewarm
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Finely ground
leaves are
placed on top of
bubonic plague.
Mix juice with
onion and
Juice: white,
warming
fennel.
64. Legundi kebo
Vitex trifolia
Linn. (?)
Character: warming
Root: warming
As `boreh' against
paralyses. 16
leaves ground
and mixed with
garlic and
vinegar.
65. Sembung
Blumea balsamifera
DC.
Character: warming
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Against `sebaha'
(inner heat with
cool skin). Root
and leaves mixed
with pisang batu
(wild banana),
tamarind and
lengkwas.
66. Kemiri
Aleurites moluccana
Willd.
Character: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Root: warming
Juice: warming
Fruits applied
onto the navel
of small
children. Root
and juice mixed
with salt and
coconut oil.
67. Api
Tetracera scandens
Merr.
Character: warming
Juice: red
Juice is brushed
on against `ila'
(various types
of skin rash).
Edge an image of
Durga onto a
copper plate,
then scratch it
off and mix with
black goat hair,
vinegar, `red
sulphur' and
arsenic.
68. Penjisih
[?]
Character: as mild
as the October wind
Root: the same
Leaves: the same
Juice: like fire
Juice mixed with
djeruk nipis (see
above) and `tabia
bun'(a variety of
capsicum),
inserted into
the nose.
69. Pahang, pawang Character: warming Insert juice
Clerodendron inerme
Gaertn.
Juice: red
mixed with oil
and vinegar into
the nose to
restore
consciousness.
Roots and leaves
as a drink.
70. Mawar
Rosa damascena
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Flowers mixed
with menyan madu
(Styrax beng).
Water from
yellow and green
coconuts dripped
into the nose
against crying
and trauma.
71. Tjenangga
(same as 12.)
Character: cooling
Bark: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Root: red
Juice: red
Bark made into a
drink against
stomatitis in
children. Mixed
with dry coconut
and candy sugar
and made into a
drink.
72. Sambung tulang
Vitis quadricornuta
Miq.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Bark: warming
Juice against
eczema. The rash
is rubbed with
leaves of alang-alang
(Imperata
cylindrica),
which are then
glued on with
the sap.
73. Jali (djali)
Coix Lacryma Jobi
Linn.
Character: lukewarm
Root: warming
Leaves: cooling
Bark: cooling
Root mixed with
sari lungit (see
above) and pulusai,
inserted into
the eyes against
oncoming
blindness.
74. Unggi
[?]
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Juice: red, warming
Mixed with onion
and fennel and
finely ground as
`uwap' onto the
eyelids against
oncoming
blindness.
75. Kroya
Ficus glabella Bl.
Character: like a
spring
Leaves and root
mixed with masuwi
(see above) onto
which the image
of Kala has been
drawn is used
against loss of
consciousness
with cramps as a
strengthening
agent. The
medicine is
chewed and spat
three times onto
the fontanelle,
5 times onto the
pit of the
stomach and 3
times onto the
forehead.
76. Uwut-uwut
[?]
Character: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Root: red
Juice: red
As a bandage for
bone fractures.
Leaves onto the
broken limb.
Root and bark
with onion,
fennel and
`spoken upon'
[holy] water in
an earthen ware
pot, applied as
a pressure pad.
77. Tengulun
(tenggalun)
Protium javanicum
Burm.
Character: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Constipating
agent for
dysentery. Root
and leaves mixed
with ketumbar (see
above), bebolong
(see above) and
temu tis, with water
as a drink to be
taken.
78. Muring, puring
Codiaeum variegatum
Bl.
Graptophyllum
pictum Griff.
Character: warming
Root: lukewarm
Against
deafness. Leaf
tips smoked with
kemenyam (see
above) blown
into the ears.
79. Kayu mas
Sarcocephalus
undulatus Miq.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Put into the
nose against
dysentery.
Equally, the
fruit juice with
candy sugar.
80. Tehep
[?]
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: lukewarm
Juice to be
brushed onto the
tongue, equally
the bark mixed
with honey.
81. Paspasan
Coccinia cordifolia
Cogn.
Leaves: cooling
Bark: cooling
Leaves and bark
mixed with lengkwas
(see above), kunir
(see above) and
wild banana (no
further
information).
82. Piling
Abrus praecatorius
Linn.
Character: warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Juice: white
Root: white
Root as medicine
(?). The bark is
soaked and mixed
with the water
of a young
coconut.
83. Bunut bulu
Ficus glabella Bl.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: white
Juice: white
11 leaves mixed
with garlic
against
shortness of
breath.
84. Jepun
Acacia farnesiana
Willd.
Plumiera acuminata
Character: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: warming,
white
Root: lukewarm
Leaves are laid
on for pain in
the lumbar
region.
Equally,. juice
mixed with chalk
powder.
85. Silikaya
Anona squamosa
Character: warming
Root: lukewarm
Root with
vinegar and
spices applied
Linn.
Juice: lukewarm
Leaves: warming
Bark: warming
externally
against fatigue.
86. Tjendana
Santalum album
Linn.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Juice: red
Bark: cooling
As `boreh' mixed
with vinegar
against [small]
pox.
87. Kale ayan
[?]
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: white
Bark: white
Mixed with lengkwas
(see above) and
kunir (see above)
against
diarrhoea.
88. Tjrangtjang
[?]
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice mixed with
djahe (Zingiber
officinale) as a
poultice onto
syphilis ulcers
on the genitals.
89. Teter
Mallotus moluccana
Muell.
Juice: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Against fever.
Against toothache
the root,
mixed with
`trusi'(copper
sulphate), is
placed on the
tooth.
90. = 11.
91. Bawang-bawang
Allium sp. div.
Root: cooling
Juice: cooling
Bark: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Mixed with onion
and fennel as
`uwap' against
dysentery.
92. Putjuk Leaves: cooling Leaves mixed
with a fresh
Hibiscus Rosasinensis
Linn.
Bark: cooling
Root: cooling
chicken egg in a
drink to further
the [? Germ.:
`Gebung'= the
giving].
93. Kayu Pahit
[?]
Leaves: warming
Root: warming
Bark: warming
Juice: warming
Bark mixed with
djangu (Acorus-
Calamus) against
snake bite.
94. Suri
[?]
Character: cooling
Juice: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Leaves mixed
with red rice
are taken for an
upset stomach.
95. Basa-basa
Amomum Cardamomum
Willd.
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: warming
Mixed with sepetsepet
(apustular
skin of the
coconut shell)
and applied onto
the navel
against
diarrhoea.
96. Uduh
Glochidion
Borneense Boerl.
Character: warming
Juice: warming
Leaves and bark
mixed with white
pepper and put
into the nose
during states of
shock
[excitement].
97. Klampuwak
Psidium Guajava
Linn.
Character: lukewarm
(and cooling)
Leaves and roots
mixed with
honey, to be
taken as a
drink, equally
the juice and
bark.
98. Gedang
Carica papaya Linn.
(comp. to 50.,
where other
information is
given)
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice mixed with
chalk against
snake bites.
99. Pancar sonar = [?] To burn and
39. overcome all
illness caused
by the [magical]
influence of a
`Pandita' or a
Brahmin.
100. Galing-galing
Vitis trifolia
Linn.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Leaves mixed
with onion,
fennel and sari-lungit
(see above), as
`uwap' against
dysentery.
101. Dagdag
Pisonia silvestris
T and B.
Character: warming
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark mixed with
vinegar as `boreh'
against cramps
in the calves.
102. Sela kutuh
Manihot utilissima
Pohl.
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Root mixed with
masuwi (see
above), vinegar,
onion, fennel
and 11 corns of
white pepper;
against pain
throughout the
entire body.
103. Krasi,
lempuyak (?)
Lantana Camara
Linn.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Juice: lukewarm
Juice mixed with
water and egg
against
drunkenness.
104. Kenari
Cannarium commune
Linn.
Cannnarium
amboinense Hochr.
Cannarium
moluccanum Bl.
Character: warming
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: white, warm
Bark: lukewarm
Bark mixed with
vinegar, honey,
arak, water and
juice of djeruk nipis
(see above), as
a draught
against
headache.
105. Bawang-bawang
Brahma, Bulun baon
(like 91. ?)
Character: cooling
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Juice: warming
Leaf tips mixed
with pulasai (see
above), burnt
onion, ketumbar
(see above) and
11 corns of
bebolong. Put into
the nose to stop
nose bleeding.
106. Keladi guak
Turpina pomifera
DC.
Character: lukewarm
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
Juice mixed with
water that has
been used to
wash red rice,
juice of djeruk nipis
(see above) and
chalk powder to
be applied to
scabies eczema.
107. Manggis
Garcinia Mangostana
Linn.
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: warming
Juice mixed with
the excrement of
a sugem (wild
dove), 21 pepper
corns, arsenic
and 11 dry sirih
leaves, applied
externally to
shingles.
108. Tjempaga
kuning
Michelia Champaca
Linn.
Character: warming
Leaves: warming
Root: warming
Bark: lukewarm
Juice: lukewarm
Bits of grated
bark mixed with
11 slices of
masuwi (see
above), 15
pepper corns,
kunjit (see above),
isen (Alpina
Galanga), temu tis
(see above),
ketumbar (see
above) and
bebolong; against
suddenly
appearing
illness.
109. Kaliombo
Borassus
blabellifer Linn.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: white, cold
(!)
Bark: cooling
Juice against
tooth-ache. Bark
mixed with deringo
belerang (Averrhoa
Billimbi) and
masuwi (see
above); finely
ground and
applied to the
cheek on the
spot where the
tooth-ache is
[located].
110. Djempiring
Gardenia augusta
Merr.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Juice: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Fragrant flowers
mixed together
with the dust
from the house
stairs (bed
chamber) and
sandalwood
powder are spat
into the face of
a child who acts
apathetic. Apart
from that, a
cross is painted
between the
eyebrows with
the ash from the
burnt hair of a
black cow.
111. Palit sedang
Pelet sedangan
[?]
Character: warming
Juice: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: lukewarm
Bark is mixed
with coconut
oil, isen (see
above) and the
leaves. All this
is ground,
heated, squeezed
out and
strained. The
juice, once it
has cooled down,
is inserted into
the eyes to
treat eye
infections.
112. Gadung kasturi
Dioscorea hispida
Dennst.
Character: warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Juice: white
Bark: warming
A little juice
mixed with the
egg of a black
hen, a swallows
nest and honey
from kela-kela (a
small type of
bee). 11 pieces;
press out and
take the syrup
[Germ. `Saft']
against cough.
113. Awar-awar
Ficus septica Burm.
Character: lukewarm
Juice: white, warm
Root: cooling
Bark mixed with
roasted isen (see
above) and
coconut milk,
ground and
squeezed out;
the juice
(liquid) is used
against vomiting
and diarrhoea.
114. Meritja
Piper nigrum Linn.
Character: warming
Bark: warming
Juice: warming
Leaves mixed
with tabia bun (see
above) and masuwi
(see above) to
be spat on
against
headache.
115. Gamongan
Zingiber americans
Bl.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Root tuber mixed
with coconut oil
and ash from the
kitchen; to be
applied to
hardened
tumours.
116. Kayu manis
Sauropus androgynus
Merr.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Leaves mixed
with coconut
milk and onion
as a tonic for
children with a
sore throat.
117. Keliki
Recinus communis
Linn.
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: cooling
Juice mixed with
chalk and
applied to pussy
finger
infections
(panaritium).
118. Kedondong
Ficus hispida Linn.
Character: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: warming
Juice: warming
Fruit: warming
Bark ground and
mixed with
totally red kunjit
(see above) and
water from
[washing] red
rice; applied to
pustulous
eczema.
119. Nenas merah
Annanas comosus
Merr.
Character: lukewarm
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
The juice
derived from
grating and
squeezing out
fruits with the
water from a
young coconut
and a green
coconut and
spices; inserted
into the nose
(no further
information).
120. Musi
Carum carvi
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: lukewarm
Leaves mixed
with garlic to
be spat on the
skin against
infectious
eczema.
121. Ingan-ingan
Flemingia
strobilifera R. Br.
[?] The stalks of
the leaves are
used to whip the
legs of children
who learn too
late how to
walk; to remedy
the fatigue of
the legs.
122. Tigaron
Crataeva nurvala
Ham.
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: lukewarm
Bark: warming
Leaves mixed
with vinegar,
meyang (see above)
and ketjubung
(Datura
fastuosa)
fruits, inserted
into the eyes
against mental
illness.
123. Pengengpengeng
[?]
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: warming
Leaves mixed
with onion and
garlic and
placed on the
forehead against
headache.
124. Tilap
[?]
Character: warming
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: warming
Juice: warming
Leaves mixed
with arak,
vinegar, hot
spices and white
pepper as a
tonic against a
bloated stomach.
125. Teter = 89. Character: warming 11 little pieces
Mallotus mollucana
Muell.
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Bark: warming
Juice: warming
of bark mixed
with musi (see
120.), tjengkeh (see
above) and
spices; to be
spat on against
a stitch.
126. Bohok
[?]
Leaves: warming
Root: warming
Bark: warming
Juice: white, warm
Bark mixed with
kayu winten (djinten? =
Carum carvi)
against
depression;
water has to be
used with this
has to be
obtained from
the spring in
the morning.
127. Pohon merak
Caesalpinia
pulcherrima Sw.
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: lukewarm
Flowers: warming
(yellowish red)
Flowers mixed
with kemenyan (see
above) and selasih
mihik (see above),
to be applied to
the fontanelle
of children at
the age of 42
days, if they
often cry at
night.
128. Teleng
Clitoria Ternata
Linn.
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: warming
Bark: warming
Leaves mixed
with masuwileaves,
inscribed with
the image of
Durga. To be
spat onto the
face to restore
consciousness
and also against
cramps.
129. Empelas
Tetracera indica
Merr.
Juice: white,
warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Juice mixed with
pulasai and burnt
onion, applied
to larger
abscesses.
130. Kasa Root: cooling Root mixed with
a fresh egg
Amomum Cardamomum
Willd.
Leaves: cooling
Juice: lukewarm
yolk, taken to
facilitate
birth.
131. Hudak
[?]
Character: warming
Juice: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Bark and leaves
mixed with 7
corns of white
pepper, salt,
charcoal
(pulverised) and
roasted
tamarind,
against
(hysterical?)
cramp conditions
with claws like
a tiger.
132. Kamurugan
Coccinia cordifolia
Cogn.
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: warming
Bark: warming
Leaves mixed
with masuwi (see
above), ketumbar
and bebolong (see
above), chewed
and spat on the
forehead against
headache.
133. Kuanta
Barleria prionitis
Linn.
Root: warming
Bark: warming
Juice: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Leaves mixed
with garlic and
temu tis (see
above), to be
spat on the
chest against
breathing
difficulties.
134. Peron
Anamirta cocculus W
and A.
Character: warming
Fruit: warming
Bark: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: warming
Fruits mixed
with masuwi (see
above) and 11
dry sirih
leaves, ground
and placed on
the head of
infants against
insufficient
hardening of the
seams of the
cranium.
135. Beligo
Beningcasa hispida
Cong.
Fruit: cooling
Root: cooling
Fruit mixed with
candy sugar,
water from a
green coconut
Character: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: lukewarm
and grated
sandal wood; to
be given to sick
children who
constantly cry
and do not reply
to questions.
136. Sikep
[?]
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Bark: cooling
21 leaves from
the tip mixed
with pulasai (see
above) and sintok
(see above);
spat on against
cramp
conditions.
137. Djerak, djerak
pagar
Jatropha Curcas
Linn.
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: warming
Leaves and root
mixed with
vinegar, pepper
and temu tis (see
above); to be
inserted into
the ears against
deafness. Bark
for `spitting
on'.
138. Kangkang yuyu
Ipomoea reptans
Poir.
Character: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: warming
Bark: warming
Root mixed with
coconut flowers,
fragrant selasih
(see above) and
gamongan (see
114.), to be
spat on against
asthma
(breathing
difficulties).
139. Kesurung
[?]
Root: warming
Leaves: warming
Juice: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Leaves mixed
with the
sediment at the
bottom of a
sirih container
and hot spices,
spat onto
cracked skin.
140. Sesawi merah
Brassica juncea
Brassia nigra Koch.
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
Stalk: warming
Tip mixed with
the bones of a
bush chicken
[?], vinegar,
`berem' (an
alcoholic
beverage) and
pepper corns; to
be taken against
breathing
difficulties and
heart
palpitations.
141. Paku sayur
Alsophila glauca
Aspidium reptans J.
Sm.
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
Stalk: cooling
Young leaves
mixed with
white, sticky
rice and burned
onion; against
lack of
appetite.
142. Pulir
[?]
Stalk: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark: warming
Root: warming
Bark mixed with
pidjar (sprouting
coconut) and
semanggi-leaves
(see 38.);
against
palpitations of
the heart and
arteries,
inserted into
the nose.
143. Kapas
Gossypium arboreum
Linn.
Stalk: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: warming
Juice: warming
Tip mixed with
temu tis (see
above), ketumbar
(see above),
bebolong (see
above) and
coconut water as
a pad onto the
navel; against
inner heat.
144. Kepasilan
djuwuk
Drynaria sparsisora
Moore.
Character: warming
Leaves: lukewarm
Leaves mixed
with honey and
lengkwas (see
above); against
vomiting,
inserted into
the nose.
145. Samlung
[?]
Character: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Root mixed with
onion and fennel
as `uwap' against
epilepsy.
146. Belimbing besi Root: lukewarm Fruit mixed with
11 white pepper
Averrhoa Bilimbi
Linn.
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark: cooling
corns; against
anxiety
[claustrophobia?
], inserted into
the nose.
147. Pala
Dipterocarpus
trinervis Bl.
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Juice: white,
cooling
Bark: cooling
Bark mixed with
red rice, masuwi
(see above) and
roasted coconut;
to be taken
against colic
(in the
stomach).
148. Kusuh
Ceiba tentandra
Gaertn.
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
Bark: lukewarm
Juice: lukewarm
The tip of a
young branch is
mashed and the
liquid mixed
with roasted pidjar
(see above); to
be taken against
`Soor' [cf
Oidium albicans,
a type of fungus
??].
149. Kaliasih
[?]
Leaves: cooling
Bark: cooling
Juice: white,
cooling
Root: cooling
Tip mixed with
the blood of a
black hen, red
kunjit (see above),
the liquid from
grated sandal
wood and honey;
inserted into
the nose,
against
dysentery.
150. Kenarak
[?]
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark: cooling
Bits scraped
from the stalk,
mixed with 11
bebolong (see
above), 9 dry
yellow sirih
leaves and 7
tjengkeh-fruits (see
above); to be
spat onto the
pit of the
stomach, against
an upset stomach
and nausea.
151. Kenar
Canarium commune
Linn.
Juice: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Root: cooling
Bark mixed with
musi (see 119.),
honey, coconut
milk and temu poh
(Curcuma
mangga);
inserted into
the nose against
congestion.
152. Poh ampelen,
Mangga manis
Mangifera indica
Linn.
Juice: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Bark mixed with
kentjur (Kaempferia
rotunda), masuwi
(see above) and
hot spices; to
be spat on,
against
congestion.
153. Bambu ampel
gading
[?]
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Bits scraped off
the trunk mixed
with red sulphur
and masuwi (see
above); to be
spat upon
oedemata with a
sting [?],
beforehand the
skin is rubbed
with snake fat.
154. Tinga-tinga
Strobilanthes sp.
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Stalk: warming
Root mixed with
coconut milk, isen
(see above) and
kunjit (see above);
against
insatiable
thirst, put into
the nose.
155. Kesahi
Brassica rugosa
Prain.
Character: cooling
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Juice: white,
lukewarm
Bark: warming
The tip mixed
with flowers of
semangka (Citrullus
vulgaris), honey
and candy sugar;
to be taken
against puss in
the faeces.
156. Tijih Root: lukewarm Root tuber mixed
with djasun (Allium
Amorphophallus
campanulatus Bl.
Leaves: lukewarm
Juice: white
Bark: cooling
sp. div.) and
deringo (see
above), ground
to a fine paste
and cooked well
together. Then,
still hot,
applied to
callouses under
the soles of the
feet.
157. Paspasan (=
81.)
Cocinia cordifolia
Cogn.
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Root mixed with
honey, juice of
delima (Punica
granatum)-
fruits and fresh
chicken egg;
against pussy
faeces, inserted
into the nose.
158. Awar-awar
Brahma
Ficus septica Burm.
(with red fruit)
Leaves: warming
Root: warming
Juice: white,
warming
Bark: [warming?]
Leaf tip mixed
with masuwi (see
above), red
sulphur and
arsenic; all
ground well
together and
applied to snake
bites.
159. Pasipadi
[?]
Root: lukewarm
Bark: lukewarm
Leaves: cooling
Leaves mixed
with masuwi (see
above) and temu tis
(see above), to
be spat on,
against swollen
face with
bloodshot eyes
and [excessive?]
appetite.
160. Paku lelipi,
pakis besar
[?]
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Tip mixed and
ground with
chalk, salt and
masuwi (see
above); applied
to scorpion
stings.
161. Serikaya Jawa
Anona muricata
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
Young leaves
mixed with
djebugarum (see
Linn. above), spices
and temu tis (see
above), spat
upon the stomach
against
bloatedness and
constipation.
162. Raso
Pandanus helicopus
Kurz.
Root: lukewarm
Leaves: lukewarm
3 tips (shoots)
are used to whip
the body of a
child who
constantly cries
and will not
respond to
comforting
words.
163. Tapis-tapis
Gomphrena tapis (?)
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Leaves mixed
with vinegar,
ground fragrant
[?], isen (see
above), kunjit (see
above) and red
rice; finely
ground and
applied onto
swollen thighs.
164. Tandjung
Mimusops Elengi
Linn.
Leaves: lukewarm
Root: lukewarm
Bark: warming
Juice: white
Character: cooling
Bark mixed with
21 white pepper
corns, masuwi (see
above), djebungarum
(see above),
ketumbar (see
above) and bebolong
(see above); to
be spat onto the
stomach against
bloatedness
[colic?].
165. Kembang kuning
Cassia surrattensis
Burm.
Leaves: warming
Root: warming
Bark: lukewarm
Juice: white,
warming
11 tips mixed
with arak,
vinegar, honey,
ketumbar (see
above) and bebolong
(see above);
against
breathing
difficulty,
inserted into
the nose.
166. Ketimun wuku
Cucumis sativus
Linn.
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Leaves mixed
with red kunjit
(see above),
gamongan (see 114.)
and grated
sandal wood; to
be spat upon the
abdomen of
pregnant women
if they
experience
intense pain
during the third
month of
pregnancy.
167. Tebu malem
Saccharum
spontaneum Linn.
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
Water (sap):
lukewarm
The water in the
stalk is
obtained through
grinding and is
mixed with the
egg of a black
hen, candy
sugar, aren
[palm] sugar and
isen (see above);
against a
bloated stomach,
inserted into
the nose.
168. Kesegseg
Portulaca oleracea
Linn.
Root: cooling
Leaves: cooling
60 leaf tips
mixed with honey
from kela-kela (see
above) and arak;
against a colic
of the stomach,
inserted into
the nose.
Taru Premana Translation, continued from page 266
[...] = comments, not part of the original text.
43. Bark, ground finely with coconut oil and heated; for application onto cracked skin on
hands and fingers.
43. Fruit juice squeezed; against gonorrhoea.
44. As `uwap' mixed with onion and fennel, against fever.
45. 16 leaves cooked half way in coconut oil (no further information).
46. Bark and juice mixed with Mesuwi (see above), djebug-arum (Myristica fragram-
Muscat) and Tjengkeh (Eugenia aromatica) as `boreh' onto the legs against fatigue.
47. The juice is inserted into the ears in case of pussy excretions; bark mixed with
Kemenyan idem (see above).
48. Leaves are placed on top of excema, also juice mixed with spider webs from the
kitchen, djeruk nipis (see above) and chalk powder.
49. Root mixed with Kemiri (Aleurites molucana) and roasted tamarind; Leaves are
drunk with water (no further information).
50. [missing]
51. Fruit juice, to be taken. When used for the treatment of Abortus (?), it is mixed with
candy sugar and the water from a yellow coconut and taken.
52. Mixed with onion and tamarind and rubbed onto the legs; against restlessness.
53. Leaves are brought to boil in coconut oil once and applied externally; against heat [of
the body? climate?].
54. Mixed with an egg from a black hen, honey and 7 slices of lengkwas (see above);
agains weakness of the nervous system and dizziness. The young leaves are used as a
drink.
55. Leaves mixed with onion and fennel as `uwap' for lying-in women.
56. 11 small pieces of bark mixed with pressed out cane juice; against haemorroids.
57. Leaves mixed with pulasai (see above); against `sarab' (children's diseases in the
lower abdomen region.
58. Against nausea. Leaves mixed with vinegar and black salt (see above).
59. Grated bark taken against tingeling sensations [lit.
`ants running']. Juice mixed with 11 corns of white pepper to be taken.
60. Roots and leaves finely ground, against illness caused by magic.
61. Leaves and bark mixed with onion and fennel to be applied to ulcers on the knee.
62. Fruits are inserted into the nose against a bleeding nose. Leaves and bark mixed with
candy sugar.
63. Finely ground leaves are placed on top of bubonic
plague. Juice mixed with onion and fennel.
64. As `boreh' against paralyses. 16 leaves ground and mixed with garlic and vinegar.
65. Against `Sebaha' (inner heat with cool skin). Root and leaves mixed with pisang batu
(wild banana), tamarind and lengkwas.
66.Fruits apllied to the navel against ... [missing].
67. Juice is brushed on againts `ila' (varios types of skin rash). Edge an image of Durga
onto a copper plate, then scratch off and mix with black goat hair, vinegar, `red sulphur'
and arsenic.
68. Juice mixed with djeruk nipis (see above) and `tabia bun'(a variety of capsicum),
inserted into the nose.
69. Insert juice mixed with oil and vinegar into the nose against loss of consciousness.
Roots and leaves as a drink.
70. Flowers mixed with Menyan madu (Styrax beng). Water from yellow and green
coconuts inserted into the nose against crying and over excitement (trauma).
71. Bark made into a drink against stomatitis in children. Mixed with dry coconut and
candy sugar and made into a drink.
72. Juice against excema. The rash is rubbed with leaves of Alang-alang (Imperata
cylindrica), then glued on with the juice (sap).
73. Root mixed with sari lungit (see above) and Pulusai, inserted into the eyes against
blindness.
74. Mixed with onion and fennel and finely ground as `uwap' onto the eyelids against
blindness.
75. Leaves and root mixed with Masuwi (se above) onto which the image of Kala has
been drawn is used against loss of consciousness with cramps as a strengthening tonic.
The medium is chewed and spat three times on fontanelle, 5 times on the pit of the
stomach and 3 times on the forehead.
76. As a bandage with bone fractures. Leaves onto the broken limb, root and bark with
onion, fennel and holy (`spoken upon') water in an earthen ware pot, applied as a pad.
77. Astringent with dysentery. Root and leaves mixed with Ketumbar (see above),
babolong (see above) and temu tis with water as a drink to be taken.
78. Against deafness. + Leaf tips smoked with Kemenyam (see above) blown into the
ears.
79. Put into the nose against dysentery. Equally fruit juice with candy sugar.
80. Juice to be brushed onto the tongue, equally bark mixed with honey.
81. ... [missing] Kunir (see above and wild banana (no further information).
82. Root as medicine (?). Barks is soaked and mixed with the water of a young coconut.
83. 11 leaves mixed with garlic against shortness of breath.
84. Leaves used on pains in the lumbar region [or hips?]. Equally juice mixed with chalk
powder.
85. Root with vinegar and spices applied externally against fatigue.
86. As `boreh' mixed with vinegar against [small] pox.
87. Mixed with lengkwas (see above) and Kunir (see above) against diarrhoea.
88. Juice mixed with Djahe (Zingiber officinalis) as a pad on syphillis ulcers on the
genitals.
89. Against fever. Against tooth-ache the root, mixed with `trusi'(copper sulphate), is
placed on the tooth.
90. = 11
91. Mixed with onion and fennel as `uwap' against dysentery.
92. Leaves mixed with a fresh chicken egg in a drink to further the Gebung [vomiting?].
93. Bark mixed with djangu Acorus-Calamus against snake bite.
94. Leaves mixed with red rice is taken for an upset stomach.
95. Mixed with sepet-sepet (apustular skin of the coconut) and applied on the navel
against diarrhoea.
96. Leaves and bark mixed with white pepper and put into the nose during states of shock
[excitement].
97. ... [missing] to be taken as a drink, equally juice and bark.
98. Juice mixed with chalk against snake bites.
99. To burn and overcome all illnesses caused by the [magical] influence of a `Pandita' or
a Brahmin.
100. Leaves mixed with onion, fennel and Sari-lungit (see above).
101. Bark mixed with vinegar as `boreh' against cramps in the calves.
102. Root mixed with Maswsi (see above), vinegar onion fennel and 11 corns of white
pepper; against pain throughout the entire body.
103. Juice mixed with water and egg against drunkenness.
104. Bark mixed with vinigar, honey, arak, water and juice of djeruk nipis (see above) as
a drink [draught] against headache.
105. Leaf tips mixed with Pulasai (see above), burnt onoion, Ketumbar (see above),
babolong 11 corns. Put into the nose to stop nose bleeding.
106. Juice mixed with the water yused to wash red rice, juice of djeruk nipis (see above)
and chalk powder to be applied to scabis excema.
107. Juice mixed with the excrement of a Sugem- bird (wild dove), 21 pepper corns,
arsenic and 11 dry sirih leaves applied to Gurtelrose [a disease in which a red circle
forms on the skin around the lower back, like a `belt of roses' (lit.), don't know the
English term].
108. Bits of grated bark mixed with 11 slices of Masuwi (sse above0, 15 pepper corns,
Kunjit (see above), Isen (Alpina Galanga), Temu tis (see above), Ketumbar (see above)
and Babolong; against suddenly appearing illness.
109. Juice against tooth-ache. Bark mixed with Deringo Blerang (Averrhoa Billimbi) and
Masuwi (see above); finely ground and applied to the cheek on the spot where the toothache
is [located].
110. Fragrant flowers mixed together with the dust from the house stairs (bed chamber)
and sandalwood powder are spat into the face of a child who acts apathetic. Apart from
that, a cross is painted between te eyebrows with the ash from the burnt hair of a black
cow.
111. Bark is mixed with coconut oil, Isen (see above) and the leaves. All this is then
heated, squeezed out and strained. The juice, once it has cooled down, is inserted into the
eyes to treat eye infections.
112. A little juice mixed with the egg from a black... [missing] ..11 pieces; press out and
take the juice (syrup?) against cough.
113. Bark mixed with roasted Isen (see above) and coconut milk, squeezed out; the juice
(liquid) is used against vomiting and diarrhoea [simultaneous].
114. Leaves mixed with Tabia bun (see above) and Masuwi (see above) to be spat on
against headache.
115. Root-bulb mixed with coconut oil and ash from the
kitchen; to be applied to hardened tumours.
116. Leaves mixed with coconut milk and onion as a tonic for children with a hoarse
voice (sore throat).
117. Juice mixed with chalk and applied to pussy finger infections (Panaritium).
118. Bark ground and mixed with totally red Kunjit (see above) and water from
[washing?] red rice; applied to pustulous excema.
119. The juice derived from grating and squeezing out fruits with the water from a young
coconut and a green coconut and spices; inserted into the nose (no further information [ie
in relation to the use of this potion]).
120. Leaves mixed with garlic to be spat on the skin against infectuous excema.
121. The stems from the leaves are used to strike the legs of children who learn how to
walk too late; to remedy the fatigue of the legs.
122. Leaves mixed with vinegar, Meyang (see above) and Ketjubung (Datura fastuosa)
fruits, inserted into the eyes against mental illness.
123. Leaves mixed with onion and garli. and placedon the forehead against headache.
124. Leaves mixed with arak, vinegar, hot spices and white pepper as a tonic against a
bloated stomach.
125. 11 little pieces of bark mixed with Musi (see #120), Tjengkeh (see above) and
spices; to be spat on against a stitch.
126. Bark mixed with Kayu winten (djinten? = Carum carvi) against depression; water
has to be used with this which has been obtained from a spring in the morning.
127. Flowers mixed with Kemenyan (see above) and Selasih Mihik (see above) to be
applied to the fontanelle of children at the age of 42 days, if they often cry (scream) at
night.
128. Leaves mixed with Masuwi-leaves, painted with the image of Durga. To be spat
onto the face against unconsciousness and ... [missing].
130. Root mixed with a fresh egg yolk, taken to facilitate birth.
131. Bark and leaves mixed with 7 corns of white pepper, salt, charcoal (pulverised) and
roasted tamarind against (hysterical?) cramp conditions with claws like a tiger.
132. Leaves mixed with Mesuwi (see above), Ketumbar Bebolong (see above), chewed
and spat on the forehead against headache.
133. Leaves mixed with garlic and Temu tis (see above)to be spat on the chest against
breathing difficulties.
134. Fruits mixed with Mesuwi (see above) and 11 dry sirih leaves, ground and placed on
the head of infants against insufficient hardening of the seams of the cranium.
135. Fruits mixed with candy sugar, water from a green coconut and grated sandal wood;
to be given to sick children who constantly cry and don't reply to questions.
136. 21 laves from the tip mixed with Pulasai (see above) and Sintok (see above); spat on
against cramp conditions.
137. Leaves and root mixed with vinegar, pepper and Temu tis (see above); to be inserted
into the ears against deafness. Bark for `spitting on'.
138. Root mixed with coconut flower, fragrant selasih (see above) and Gamongan (#114)
to be spat on against asthma (breathing difficulties).
139. Leaves mixed with the sediment at the bottom of a sirih box and hot spices, spat
onto cracked skin.
140. Tip mixed with bones of a bush chicken [?], vinegar, `Berem' (an alcoholical
beverage) and pepper corns; to be taken against breathing difficulties and heart
palpitations.
141. Young leaves mixed with white, sticky rice and burned onion; against lack of
appetite.
142. Bark mixed with Pidjar (sprouting coconut), Semanggi (#38)-leaves; against
palpitations of the heart and arteries, inserted into the nose.
143. Tip mixed with Temu tis (see above), Ketumbar (see above), Benolong (see above)
and coconut water as a pad onto the navel; against inner heat.
144. Leaves mixed with honey and Lengkwas (see above); against vomiting, inserted into
the nose.
145. Root mixed with onion and fennel as... [one line missing].
146. [one line missing] ... pepper; against breathlessness [claustrophobia?], inserted into
the nose.
147. Bark mixed with red rice, Mesuwi (see above) and roasted coconut; to be taken
against colic (of the stomach).
148. The tip of a young branch is mashed and the liquid mixed with roasted Pidjar (see
above); to be taken against Soor [? is this Balinese?].
149. Tip mixed with the blood of a black hen, red Kunjit (see above), the liquid from
grated sandal wood and honey; inserted into the nose, against dysentery.
150. Bits scraped from the stem mixed with 11 Bebolong (see above), 9 dry, yellow sirih
leaves and 7 Tjengkeh- fruits (see above); to be sat onto the pit of the stomach, against an
upset stomach and nausea.
151. Bark mixed with Musi (#119), honey, coconut milk and Temu poh (Curcuma
mangga); inserted into the nose against congestion.
152. Bark mixed with Kentjur (Kaempferia rotunda), Masuwi (see above) and hot spices;
to be spat on, against congestion.
153. Bits scraped off the trunk mixed with red sulphur and Masuwi (see above); to be
spat upon Odeme [?] with a sting, before that the skin is rubbed with snake fat.
154. Root mixed with coconut milk Isen (see above) and Kunjit (see above); against
insatiable thirst, put into the nose.
155. The tip mixed with flowers of Semangka (Citrullus vulgaris), honey and candy
sugar; to be taken against puss in the faeces.
156. Root bulb mixed with Djasun (Allium sp. div.) and Deringo (see above), ground to a
fine paste and cooked well together. Then, still hot, applied to callouses under the soles of
the feet.
157. Root mixed with honey, juice of Delima (Punica granatum)- fruits and fresh chicken
egg; against pussy faeces; inserted into the nose.
158. Leaf tip mixed with Masuwi (see above), red sulphur and arsenic; all ground well
together and applied to snake bites.
159. Leaves mixed with Mesuwi (see above) and Temu tis (see above), to be spat on,
against swollen face with reddened face and [excessive?] appetite.
160. Tip mixed with chalk, salt and Masuwi (see above); ground together and applied to
scorpion stings.
161. Young leaves with Djebugarum (see above), spices and Temu tis (see above), mixed
and spat upon the stomach against bloatedness and constipation.
162. 3 tips (shoots) are used to strike the body of a child who constantly cries and will not
respond to comforting words.
163. [one line misssing] ... red rice; finely ground and applied on swollen thighs.
164. Bark mixed with 21 white pepper corns, Masuwi (see above), Djebungarum (see
above), Ketumbar (see above) and Bebolong (see above); to be spat onto the stomach
against bloatedness.
165. 11 tips mixed with arak, vinegar, honey, Ketumbar (see above) and Bebolong (see
above); against breathing difficulty, put into the nose.
166. Leaves mixed with red Kunjit (see above), Gamongan (#114) and grated sandal
wood; to be spat upon the abdomen of pregnant women if they experience intense pain
during the third month of pregnancy.
167. The water in the stem is obtained through grinding and is mixed with the egg of a
black hen, candy sugar, aren[palm] sugar and Isen (see above); against a bloated stomach,
put into the nose.
168. 60 leaf tips mixed with honey from Kela-kela (see above) and arak; against a colic
of the stomach, put into the nose.