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the two other myrobalans. The fresh fruits are globular, six- 

 striated, with a fleshy, acidulous pulp, A preserve of the ripe 

 fruits made with sugar, is considered a wholesome article of diet 

 and a preservative of health. The dried fruits are wrinkled, of a 

 blackish grey colour, and have an acidulous, astringent taste. 



The properties of emblio myrobalan are said to resemble 

 those of the ohebulio. The fresh juice is cooling, refrigerant, 

 diuretic and laxative. The dried fruits are astringent and useful 

 in hemorrhages. It is said that, the exudation from incisions 

 made on the fruits while on the tree, is a very useful external 

 application in recent inflammation of the eye. It is also used as 

 a collyrium. 1 



The following preparation is used as a cooling and stomachia 



drink in irritability of the stomach. Take of emblio myrobalan, 

 raisins, sugar and honey, eight tolas each, water half a seer ; rub 

 them together, strain through cloth and administer the strained 

 fluid in suitable doses. 2 



About two drachms of emblio myrobalan is recommended to 

 be given in the form of a paste, with the addition of honey for 

 checking monorrhagia and discharge of blood from the uterus. 

 The fresh juice of the ripe fruits is given with honey as a 

 diuretic. 8 A paste of the fruits is applied over the pubio region 

 in irritability of the bladder. 4 



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