chirata

Stedman's Medical Dictionary: A Practical Medical Dictionary · 1920 · p. 7

(che-rah'tah, ki-ra'tah) [Hindu.] N.F. and Br.) The dried plant, Swertia chirayita, chiretta, a gentian of the Him a lay as; stomachic and tonic in doses of gr. 10-30 (0.6-2.0).