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and pitachandana or the yellow variety. These varieties are 

 founded on the difference in the depth of colour in the heart- 

 wood and not on any specific difference in the plants. The use 



of sandal 



fragrant 



made from it, are too well known to need description here. The 

 Hindus use an emulsion of the wood in the worship of their idols 

 and for painting or anointing their bodies after bathing. Rich 

 natives sometimes use sandal wood for burning their dead 

 relatives. Rich or p3or, all add at least one piece of the wood to 

 the funeral pile. 



The essential oil of chandan (chua chandana) obtained by 

 distillation from the heart-wood and roots, is of a pale yellow 

 colour and has a peculiar fragrant smell best appreciated by 

 rubbing a few drops of it cm the hand. It is much used as a 

 perfume by the Hindus both for themselves and for their idols. 

 In Orissa it is a practice with the better olasses to rub a little 

 sandal oil in the spices which they take with their betel-leaf. 



Sandal wood is desoribed as bitter, oooling, astringent, and 

 useful in biliousness, vomitting, fever, thirst and heat of body. 

 An emulsion of the wood is used as a oooling application to the 

 skin in erysipelas, prurigo and sudamina. 1 Two tolas of the 

 watery emulsion of sandal wood, with the addition of sugar, 

 honey and rice-water, is given to check gastric irritability and 

 dysentery, and to relieve thirst and heat of body. 2 



NAT. ORDER EUPH0RB1ACE/E. 



PHYLLANTHUS EMBLIOA, Linn. 



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