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Characters. Dense heavy billets, outwardly dark "brown, 

 internally variegated with dark 'and lighter red rings, if cut 

 transversely. Powder "blood-red, of a faint peculiar odour, and 

 an obscurely astringent taste. Also chips of the same. 



Substances resembling Sandal Wood : Logwood, less dense. 



Composition. Red sandal wood contains a blood-red 

 crystalline principle, santalic acid, or santalin, insoluble in I 

 water. 



Red Sandal Wood is contained in Tinctura Lavandulse Com- $ 

 posita. 



USE. 



Red sandal wood is used only to give colour to the Compound \ 

 Tincture of Lavender. 



Kino KINO. The inspissated juice obtained 

 from incisions made in the trunk of Pterocarpus 

 Marsupium. Imported from Malabar. 



Character s. In small angular brittle glistening reddish- I 

 black fragments, translucent and ruby-red on the ecL 

 inodorous, very astringent. When chewed it tinges the saliva 

 blood-red. 



Composition. Kino contains 75 percent, of kino-tannic acid, 

 Ci 8 Hi 8 8 , giving a greenish precipitate with persalts of ir- 

 brenzcatechin, a derivate of catechin (see Catechu Pallidum, } 

 270) ; and kino-red, formed from kino-tannic acid by oxydati 



Dose. 10 to 30 gr. 



Preparations. 



1. Pulvis Kino Compositus. Kino, 15 ; opium, 1 ; cinnamon, $ 



4 (1 of opium in 20). Dose, 5 to 20 gr. 



2. Tinctura Kino. 1 to 10. Dose, % to 2 fl.dr. 



Kino is also a constituent of Pulvis Catechu Compositus, 

 Iin5. 



ACTION AND USES. 



Kino closely resembles tannic acid in its action, and may 

 be used for the same purposes. (See page 337.) It is chi' 

 employed in the form of astringent gargles, and as a con- 

 stituent of mixtures for diarrhosa. 



Balsaniiiiii Peruvianum BALSAM OF PEEU. 

 A balsam obtained from Myroxylon Pereirse. If ' 

 exudes from the trunk of the tree after the bark ha? 



