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In fractures and contusions with extensive ecchymosis, 

 powdered arjuna bark is recommended to be taken internally 

 with milk. 1 A decoction of the bark is used as a wash in ulcers 

 and chancres. l 



NAT. ORDER. MYRTACE£. 



EUGENIA JAMBOLANA, Lam. 



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Syn. Syzygium Jambolanum, W. fy A. 

 Saiis. m*%> Jambu. Vern. Kdlajdm, Beng. Jdmun, Hind. 

 This tree, which yields an abundant crop of sub-acid edible 



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fruits during the months of July and August, is c 

 the country. In some places the fruits attain the size of a pigeon's 

 egg and are of superior quality. A vinegar prepared from the 

 juice of the ripe fruit, is an agreable stomachic and carminative. 

 It is also used as a diuretic in scanty or suppressed urine. A sort 

 of spirituous liquor called Jumbava is described in recent Sanskrit 

 works as prepared by distillation from the juice of the ripe fruits. 

 The bark is astringent, and is used, alone or in combination with 

 other medicines of its class, in the preparation of astringent 

 decoctions, gargles and washes. The fresh juice of the bark is 

 given with goat's milk in the diarrhoea of children. 2 The 

 expressed juice of the leaves is used alone or in combination with 

 other astringents in dysentery with bloody discharge, as for 

 example in the following prescription. Take of the fresh juice 

 of the leaves of jambu, mango and emblic myrobalan about a 



drachm each, and administer with coat's milk and honev. 3 





CARYOPHYLLUS AROMATICUS, Linn. Sans. *mr, La- 



vanga. CJoves, as might be expected, are much used in Hindu 



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