LAPHRÁ
Meaning in English2
s. m, plant (Salvia lanatá, S. Moorcroftiana, Nat. Ord. Labiatæ), which is common wild in the plains of N. W. Panjab, in the Salt Range and in the Himalaya. In the Salt Range its stalks are peeled and eaten, they are mawkishly sweet in taste, and there the root is given for coughs, the seeds for vomiting, and the leaves are applied to guinea worm. In Hazara the leaves are applied to itch. The leaves are used medicinally as farásiún, and its poultices under the name of Jániadam are applied to wounds. The seeds are the Kanochá of the shops. They are given in colic and dysentery, and are applied to boils, and in Lahore also for hæmorrhoids; Kálí Jírí.
Source:THE PANJABI DICTIONARY-Bhai Maya Singh