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Royle, in 1838, brought Rusot: more prominently to the notices j 
employed as a tonic and febrifuge. The root-bark of Barberry 4 
- Rusot mixed with opium, alum, rock salt, chebulic myrobalans, 
_and ulcerations of the skin, and mixed with milk it is ¢ 
pains and diarrhcea. Is safd to cause contraction of the intes- 
Be Wery. neefual’ in Ba dyspepsia secompanied = a foleil 
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of Europeans ; since then if has been pretty extensively — 
is now Official in the Pharmacopeeia of India, it is noticed in the 
Tuhfat-el-muminin under the name of Arghis, and is said to 
possess all the properties of M4mfrén. Surgeon-General Cornish, 
of Madras, states that the Nilgiri Barberry bark (Mullu-kulla- 
puttai T’am.,) has been used in oh teeatinent of ague with good 
results. A similar generally held by medical 
menin India, In the facaars thé stem, extractand fruit are always 
obtainable; the two first are considered cold and dry, and are © 
prescribed in combination with other bitters and aromatics, 
as tonics and antiperiodics, especially when bilious symptoms 
and diarrhoea are present ; they are also used in menorrhagia, 
orbit in painful affections of the conjunctiva ; it is also us 
mixed with honey as an application to aati has and abrasions 
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into the eye in conjunctivitis. The fruit is cooling 
tines and of the anleotis and to lessen oxidation — in the blood. 
