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SALVADORACE Ai. - 381- 
Hindus consider Bc fruit to be hot, digestive, lithontriptic, 
fattening and light; and to be benok asl in enlarged spleen, 
rheumatism, tumours and lithiasis; it is also thought to have 
alchemic or alterative properties. In Marwar and other parts 
_ of Northern India the berries of 9. oleoides and S. persica are 
largely collected and dried in the sun as an article of diet, 
When dry they resemble grape currants both in appearance 
and taste. From the seeds an oil is expressed, which is used 
as a stimulating application in painful rheumatic affections 
and after childbirth. The leaves of these trees heated and 
tied up in a cloth with those of Vitex trifolia are a favorite 
domestic remedy for rheumatic pains. 
The Arabs call the Salvadoras Ar4k and the Persians 
‘Darakht-i-miswak, ‘ tooth-brush tree,” short pieces of the root, . 
about the size of goosequill, being used to clean the teeth, 
On the coast of Persia bordering the Persian Gulf these shrubs 
are called Chiich, and are depastured by camels and buffaloes. 
They are said to render the milk very rich and thick. This 
property of the plant as a fodder is also known in India. The 
a author of the Makhzan-el-Adwiya describes the fruit as de- 
_ obstruent, carminative and diuretic, and remarks that a poultice 
of the leaves, which have similar properties, is used to 
_ Yelieve the pain caused by tumours, piles, etc. 
- Forskahl (Agypt-Arab., p. 82) has the following notice of 
vadora:—“In magno est pretio ; fructus (K abath) maturus 
edulis; folia contusa imponuntur tumoribus naram (@)5) dictis_ 
|. eb abd GhibuN: sed vis antitoxica adeo famosa, ut carmine 
quoque celebretur.” ‘Kabath is the Arabic name for 2 ripe 3 
a , fruit, when unripe it is called _,2» (barir). 
Ainslie gives Ooghat-putiai as the Tamil name of 8. persica, 
and RAYE... the bark, which is a little warm and somewhat 
_ acrid, is recommended by the Hindu doctors, in decoction, m 
of. 
: low fever, and as a tonic and stimulant in amenorrhea. 
: @ root when fresh acts as a vesicatory.” Gg (Mat. be 
Ds ). In the Pharmacopwia of India, we are told 
Ir rive emnleed the root-bark sngeeesialy a a = 
