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34 : —— C ULACEE. * 
Cadena Hospital, Bombay, and found to be a good bitter tonit 
History, Uses, &c.—The genus Thalictrum is found in 1d 
the temperate and cold-northern regions of Asia, it is very rare 
in the South, but one species, I’. Dalzellii, is found on the moun- 
tains of the Western Peninsula. In Europe 7. flavum, und 
the names of Meadow Rue, Rue des prés, Fausse rhubar 
Rhubarbe des pauvres, Unachte rhabarber, Wiescurante a 
another. species from Avracan, —— been used for a simi 
purpose in India from an early date. It is, perhaps, the Pite 
of Sanskrit writers. We have been able to identify as Thal 
‘trum root the drug which is occasiénally to be seen im t 
shops under the name of Piaranga,* and which is treated 
at great length in the Makhzan-el-Adwiya as a root which 
brought from Arracan to Sylhet and Islamabad, and then 
distributed to other. parts of India. The people of Arrac 
appear to consider it as a panacea. The following inform 
as to the properties of Pilijari is contained in the Bengal I 
pensatory, where the result of a trial of the root, supplied 
the Saharunpore Gardens, is related —“Five grains of 
powder, or two grains of the watery extract given three tin 
a day in some cases prevented, and in others moderated, | 
accession of fever, and at the same time acted gently on the 
bowels. The only sensation experienced was warmth at th 
epigastrium and a general comfortable feeling.” (Beng 
— Disp. p. 161.) The Piaranga of the shops in the form of § 
. tincture has-been administered to some extent at the Europ 
Recently the root of I. foliolosum obtaitied from the Superit 
tendent of the Saharanpore Gardens has been used wit 
very satisfactory results in Bombay as a remedy for atoni 
dyspepsia accompanied with a febrile Bates of th 
system. (Dr. Pechey.) : 
Description.—Roots long, nesely straight, ee : ) 
lets, stout and woody, from 4 inch or more to 4 inch in diam: P 
* * Probably the same arog as the Pic iamnisg tach of. Ainslie 
