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unable to move at sea through the slippery mucus of some 

 great fish, being able to get away after pouring overboard a 

 decoction of the fruit. Hair dyes, diet drinks, and charms to 

 drive away all diseases are spoken of as made from them. The 

 seeds are mixed with white honey and used in eye diseases. 

 They are also used in coughs and dysentery. A decoction of 

 the leaves is carminative, demulcent, and astringent. 



THALICTRUM RUBELLUM.— ^ jg (Sheng-ma), 1132. 

 This is properly Aciea spicata (which see). These root-stocks 

 are met with as dark-brown, irregular pieces, bristled with 

 rootlets, and having more or less of the stems attached to them. 

 The taste is bitterish. The Indian Pharmacopoeia quotes the 

 native account of Thaliclrum foliolosuvi^ which is called Pilci 

 jari^ and which is a tonic and antiperiodic remedy, combining 

 some aperient properties, which are found in the root when 

 administered as a powder, or as an extract, prepared as is that 

 from gentian root. 



THEA.— ^" (Ming), :^ (Ch*a). See Camdia thca. 



THERMOPSIS FABACEA.— ^ ^ (Huang-hua). One 

 four-parted flower with gamapetalons corolla to each stalk. 

 The frost colors the flower more deeply yellow. The fruits 

 (pods) are the parts used in medicine for diseases of the mouth, 

 throat, and teeth. 



THLADIANTHA DUBIA.— 2 )^ (Wang-kua), ± ^ 

 (T*u-kua), :^> ;^ (Ch'ih-pao). This is a climbing plant, with 

 roundish leaves, small, yellow, five-cleft flowers, red fruit 

 which gives the name "red hail-stone" to the plant, and 

 a tuberous, starchy root. The young plant and root are both 

 used for food, and the root and seeds are used in medicine. 

 The former is considered to be alterative, cholagogue, galac- 

 tagogue, and diuretic, and is used in jaundice, urinary diflficul- 

 ties, constipation, alactia, amenorrhcea, fluxes, pimples on the 

 face, and deafness. The raw seeds are said to be tonic to the 

 heart and lungs and good for jaundice, and when roasted are 

 used as an astringent in fluxes and to relieve nausea and 

 vomiting. 



