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for medicinal use as a moderate or mild cathartic. The black 

 variety is said to be a powerful drastic and to oause vomiting, 

 faintness and giddiness. Trivrit has been used as a purgative 

 from time immemorial and is still used as such by native practi- 

 tioners, alone, as well as in various combinations. In fact this 

 medicine is the ordinary cathartic in use amongst natives, just as 

 jalap is among Europeans. The usual mode of administering it 



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About two scruples of the root are rubbed into a 



pulp with water and taken with the addition of rook salt and 

 ginger or sugar and blaok pepper. 



A compound powder called Ndrdcha chuma} is thus prepared. 

 Take of Trivrit root eight tolas, long pepper two tolas, sugar eight 

 tolas ; powder and mix. About a scruple of the powder is recom- 

 mended to be taken before meals in constipation with hard feces. 



Tumburbddya chuma. 2 Take of the fruits of Xanthoxylum 

 hostile ( tumburu ), rock, vit and sochal salts, ajowan % pdchdk root, 

 yavakshdra t chebulio myrobalan, aseafoetida and baberang seeds, 

 one part each, trivrit three parts ; powder the ingredients and 

 mix. Dose, about a drachm with warm water, in painful 

 dyspepsia with oostiveness and flatulence. 



In anasarca supposed to be caused by deranged bile, a 

 decoction of trivrit, gulancha, and the three myrobalans is recom- 

 mended to be taken. Milk diet should be prescribed along with 

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