ORUOIFER SZ. es 
ere é is called Radke in riibe Miérdarakht ; vat 
‘Tabriz, Darina. ©The plant has long leaves, without stwlka pe 
the branches are red, stiff and armed with a few prickles ; the 
seed is in a small pod, and of the shape of a lentil, but much 
“smaller; there are three varieties—red, yellow, and white; the — 
latter is the largest. ‘Towdr is hot in the second degree, and 
moist in the first: some say dry.. Properties aphrodisiac, fat- — 
- tening the body, and purifying the blood.” The drug is in 
general use for the abovementioned properties, which are 
attributed by the natives to most of the cruciferous seeds. 
Some of the Towdrf sced is doubtless ‘the produce of. 
Lepidium Iberis, Lian., a plant whose habitat extends from _ 
Southern Europe to Siberia. This plant was known to the 
ancients and ‘employed as a rubefacient in rheumatism, Xe. ; 
‘the seeds taken internally were prescribed in bronehitis and — 
_.dropsy.* According to Pliny they were first used by Damo- 
. erates. Corre and Lejanne state that L. Iberis is called Cresson = 
de Savane inthe Antilles, and is considered to have. all the : 
_ properties of water-cress. 
A tea made from JL. ruderale i is used in Suede; m n intermittent 
‘fevers. ‘A rare Peer found in some seaside aes in 
Britain, 
4 ieaetiption: xn fiicn Wide aro wees shape to ibe 
_. seeds of Candytuft; the so-called white variety is only somewhat — 
> paler than the red; a brown-coloured sort is sometimes met 
with under the name of “Black Towdr’.” When soaked in re 
water the seeds become thickly coated with mucilage. = 
Chemical composition. —Leroux (1837) obtained from ee 
flowering tops and seeds of Lepidiwm Iberis an amorphous — 
bitter principle which -he named Biase Phe jae also _ 
_ yields a sulphuretted volatile oil. a 
| Commerce. —It is imported from: Persia. "Value, Red, ne 
annas per lb.; White, 5 annas:per Ib.’ a’ 
* XemiBiov Dios. ii. 165. Piple. said by Paulus Egineta 3 in his Th 
App- Her b. 20. 
raminif 
same as Aemdiov. so Plin. 25, 49, 
