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bed-time. According to Susruta, it is aromatic, carminative, 

 stimulant and astringent. It sweetens the breath, improves the 

 voice and removes all foulness from the mouth. According to 

 other writers it acts as an aphrodisiac. 



, ^ Medicinally it is said to be useful in diseases supposed to be 

 caused by deranged phlegm and its juice is much used as an 

 adjunct to pills administered in these diseases ; that is, the pills 

 are rubbed into an emulsion with the juice of the betle-leaf and 

 licked up. Being always at hand, pan leaves are used as a 

 domestic remedy in various ways. The stalk of the leaf smeared 

 with oil iB introduced into the rectum in the constipation and 

 tympanitis of children, with the object of inducing the bowels 



to act. The leaves are 



headache 



relieving pain, to painful and swollen glands for promoting 

 absorption, and to the mammary glands with the object of 

 checking the secretion of milk. Pan leaves are used as a ready 

 dressing for foul ulcers which seem to improve under them. 



NAT. ORDER CONIFERS. 



, PINUS WEBBIANA, Wall. 



Syn. Abies Wcbbiana, Ltndl. 



Sans. rrr#snr?, Tdlisapatra, Vern. 1'dlispalra Bmg. Mind. 



The dried leaves used by Kavirajas under the name of 

 tdlisapatra, were identified at the herbarium of the Royal Botam'o 

 Garden to be the leaves of Pinus Webbiana. They are single, 

 spirally arranged all round the branchlets, flat, narrow, linear, 

 one to three inches long, one line broad, narrowed into a short 

 terete petiole, under side with two longitudinal furrows on either 

 side of the raised midrib, upper side shining. The Sanskrit term 

 tdlisapatra has been hitherto translated by most writers on Botany 

 and Materia Medioa, as Flacourtia cataphrada. The error 

 originated probably in Wilson's Sanskrit- English dictionary and 

 has since been repeated by subsequent writers. This medicine 



arded as carminative, expectorant and useful in phthieiflt 

 and asthma. 



