108  - UMBELLIFERA. 
general health. In the Pharmacopeia of India it has been — 
made official, and is described as an alterative, tonic and local 
stimulant, more especially useful in syphilitic skin diseases, in 
which it may be used both as an internal and local remedy. 
Directions for making a powder and poultice are given. More 
recent reports from Europe (1885) confirm this statement, and — 
there has been some enquiry for the drug in Bombay which 
has led to its cultivation on a small scale. In the neighbour 
hood of Bombay the plant is rare in a wild state, bub m 
often be seen in gardens ; it is a popular remedy for the slig 
dysenteric derangements of the bowels to which children 04 
subject ; 3 to 4 leaves are given with cumin and sugar, and 
the pounded leaves are applied to the navel. In the Conc 
one or two leaves are given every morning to cure stutterin, 
and the juice is applied to skin eruptions supposed to 
from heat of blood.* Dr. Clement Daruty de Grandpré ( 
veaux Remédes, 8th April, 1888,) states that this plant is 
abundant in Mauritius that it serves as forage for cattle, w 
milk it improves ; it is also greedily eaten by pigs and o 
domestic animals. He says it should be very carefully dri 
and bottled to preserve the volatile oil which is the acti 
The dose is 10 grs. of the 
der three times a day ; in short, this drug is in small dc 
powerful stimulant, especially of the cutaneous system, with 
results above described in the case of lepers. In large 
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* Generally as a ép with Cadamba bark, Ghi, and Black Camin 
