Dr. Avnish Jolly,18 June :"I have never observed any laxative effects from eating the ripe fruit or heard of its being eaten with this object; if true it would not be safe to eat the fruit in large quantities when cholera is prevalent, as it often is in India during the mango season.
the kemels of the seeds are sometimes roasted and eaten as food by the poorer classes in times of scarcity (Brigade Surgeon G. A Watson, Allahabad). "the dried flowers, either in the form of decoction or powder, are used as a useful astringent in looseness of the bowels, chronic dysentery, and gleet" (Assistant Surgeon S. Arjun Rovat, L.M., Girgaum, Bombay). " The gum of the mango tree is used for cracked feet with good effect" Surgeon-Major J. North, Bangalore). " The green fruit is softened by roasting, mixed with water and used by the natives of upper India in sunstroke and burning of the body. Amchur and pickles prepared from green fruit are issued to prisoners in jails as antiscorbutics. The kernel are dried and stored for medicinal use. In times of scarcity the flower of dried kemels is used by the poor as an article of diet" (Assistant Surgeon S. C. Bhattercharji, Chanda, Central Provinces).
"The kernel (powdered) with resin and kurchi is given in dysentery. I have seen several cases cured by this. Dose: Equal quantities of each ingredient mixed and about 15 grains given twice or thrice a day to adults" (Assistant Surgeon N.N. Bhattacharjee, Tirhoot State Railway, Somastipore). "The kemels powdered when thoroughly dry are used as food in the North-West, being made into chapattis" (Narain Msser, Kothe Bazar Dyspensary, Hosangabad, Central Provinces). "The unripe fruit cut and dried is a valuable antiscorbutic. It is now in use in Bengal jails" (Surgeon RL. Dutt., M.D.Pubna). "The ripe fmit is laxative. The kernel of the seed is used as an astringent in diarrhoea. This is one of the ingredients of Pogson’s Bael powder. The baked green fruit is made into a sherbet, and the pulp applied also extemally in sunstrokes" (Bolly Chand Sen, Teacher of Medicine). "If the small white kemel of the mango stone be steeped in a little water and reduced to the consistence of paste, it may be applied to any part of the skin which burns, and it will soon have a cooling effect" (Surgeon W. Wilson, Bogra). "The unripe fruit is used by the natives in the form of sherbet as a refrigerant and diaphoretic. The juice is used in fissures of the feet and between the toes and fingers" (Civil Surgeon J.H.Thornton, B.A, M.B., Monghyr). "The kemel of the stone has been frequently used in diarrhoea of children with success, in 1 to 3 grain doses alone or with dried bael" (Assistant Surgeon N.L. Ghose, Bankipore) (Dictionary of the Economic Products of India).
"I was lately told by a very intelligent patient that he had found the mango decidedly anthelmintic" Surgeon Major Farquhar, M.D., Otacamtmd). "Amchur is the very best antiscorbutic that I know. I have found it stamps out scurvy when lime juice and all other available remedies had been tried in vain" (brigade Surgeon C. Joynt, M.D., Poona). "The dried kemel of the ripe fmit is used as an astringent in diarrhoea" (Civil Surgeon R Gray, Lahore). "The liquid extract is as efficacious as bel in dysentery" (Civil Surgeon G.C. Ross, Delhi, Panjab). Flour made from the kemel of ripe mango seeds when dried, is made into chapattis, and eaten by men of low caste, in the North Westem Provinces" Surgeon AC. Mukerji, Noakhally). "the kernel is a constant and unfailing remedy for diarrhoea and dysentery amongst the hill tribes of the Sourah Mahlias. In my travels as Deputy Superintendent of vaccine, I had frequent opportunities of noting the effects of the drug. When the Sourahs came down to the plains and remained for a week or more , they were very subject to diarrhoea or dysentery, they then eagerly sought for the seeds and used half a kernel in the moming and half in the evening. this treatment they continued for two or three days with marked effect and perfect cure resulted in five days atleast" (Honorary Surgeon E. A Morris, Tranquibar).