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; up into a medicine called Khairva are used to stop hemoptysis. 
_ (Irvine, Med. Top., p. 132.) The gum is too well known as an 
_ article of commerce to- require description. 
3 CASSIA FISTULA, Linn: 
Fig.— Wight Ic., t. 269; Bentl. and Trim., t, 87. Purg- 
ing cassia, Indian Laburnum (Eng.), Casse Canéficier (Fr.). 
Hab.—India, wild or planted. The fruit. 
 -Vernacular.—Amaltés, Kirvaéli (Hind.), Bhava (Mar.), Gur- 
mala (Guz.), Kakke-kayi (Can.), Ahalla (Cing.), Konraik-kai, 
_ Sharak-konraik-kai, Mambala-konnai (Tam.), Sondhali (Beng.), 
_ Réla-kéyalu (Tel.), Konnan (Mal.). 
s History, Uses, &c.—The Sanskrit names for the tree 
are Aragbadha, Suvarnaka (golden), and Rajataru, or Nri- 
 padruma (royal tree), on account of the beauty of the long 
ra 
- the ground and worshipped. In Hindu medicine the pulp 
_ is used as a cathartic, and the root is also sometimes given as 
- to be used by Chakradatta ; it contains Cassia pulp, Picrorrhiza 
_ Kurrow, Chebulic myrobalans, long pepper root and Cyperus 
— rotundus, (Dutt’s Hindu Mat. Med., p. 155.) In Mahometan 
Works the drug is called Khiyar-shambar, an Arabic corrup- 
tion of the: Persian Khiyar-chambar, and the pulp Asal-i- 
Khiyar-chambar (honey of Khiyar-chambar). Chambar means 
a necklace in Persian, and is probably an allusion to the 
_ structure of the pod. Persian dictionaries give Katha-el-Hind 
(Indian cucumber) as the Arabic name. Through the 
_ Arabians the drug became known to the later Greek physicians. 
Nicolaus Myrepsicus calls if ykueoxdAapoy. Joannes Actuarius, 
_ who practised at Constantinople towards the close of the 13th 
_ century, describes it minutely. * - In the Makhzan-el-adwiya 
hs --" # Meth. Med. v,2. 
wy laxative. A compound decoction (Aragbadhadi) is directed — 
