HAJARUL YAHUD
English : Fossil encrinite/Jerusaleem stone/Judaicus stone
Urdu : Baer pather/Hajar-ul-Yahud
Telugu : __                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Description :
It is a stony growth or stone resembling long jujube fruit having as a petrified oblong, obtusely pointed structure with a stalk. It is about 1-4 cm long, having longitudinally ribbed surface.Each rib is tuberculated.Externally the colour is dirty-grey but internally, it is greenish white.
Action and Uses:
It is diuretic, anti-spasmodic and lithontriptic. It is used in kidney, ureter and bladder stones.
It relieves renal colic, splits the stones and excrete or their pieces.It is also used in retension of urine.
It is used alone or with other diuretic and lithontriptic drugs e.g Fish Head stone horse-gram and
turnip salt. It is also incinerated and used for the treatement of kidney’s stones.
Ibn Sina’ s View:
It is lithontriptic and expels kidney stone and also bladder stone. It checks rectal bleeding. It lessens appetite.