MENISPERMACEZ— - —s 
_- reported in’ which it was used to facilitate the commission of 
‘theft. The symptoms ‘are stomach ache, nausea, yomiting, 
tetanic convulsion, insensibility and sometimes | delirium, : 
Dr. Burton Brown notices its use asa poison in the Punjab. ~ 
Commerce.—Cocculus Indicus is brought to the Western 
ports in large quantities for exportation to Europe ; it is hardly 
ever used in India; and is-seldom to be seen in the druggists’ 
a ae Value, Rs. 3 per Surat maund of 37} Ibs. 
_ CISSAMPELOS ‘PAREIRA, Linn. 
4 Fig, —Bentl. ‘wed Trim., A408. 
Hab. —Tropical and sub-tropical India. — ii f 
_ warm regions. The root. — 
.. Vernacular.—Dakhnirbish{, Pahari, Hise (Hind, ), Rabies 
7 mil: (Mar.), Pata (Tel.), Tikri, Katori (Sind, poet 
4 _ Karandhis we ), Ponmutootai (Tam.). 
| History, Uses, &cC.—The plant appears to have been — 
_ long in use as a bitter tonic and diuretic in Northern and 
_ Southern India, and is mentioned by Ainslie. Chakradatta 
- recommends it in fever with diarrhoea and in internal: inflam- 
mations; it is combined in native practice with bitters and ~ 
aromatics. In Europe it has never been an article of commerce, 
though for a long time it was supposed to produce the Pareira 
root of the shops (confer. Pharmacographia, p.'25). The 
Sanskrit names are Ambashta, P&éth4é. and Venivela (braided | 
creeper), Rahadamula and Akanédi. In the. Punjab agd Sind 
__ the leaves and roots are employed in the cure of ulcers and in 
4 _ Pudukota for dysentery. The drug is not used in Europe; it 
; appears to act-as a mild tonic-and diuretic, ‘It ig Pe to 
he antilithie. 
+ Description. —The sobka is shat here an inch in — : 
q bark hight brown, marked with longit and trans- _ 
__ verse eens, sometimes very ; crooked and knotty, from z 
