98 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANT.-, 



A coarse rough annual, edible., cultivated throughout 

 India in gardens. Root fleshy, pungent, variable in size and 

 form. Leaves roughly pilose ; lower ones lyrate. Flowers 

 variable, usually white or lilac, with purple veins. Pods in- 

 dehiscent, terete, 1 in, to 2ft. (R, caudatus), more or less 

 constricted between the seeds, prolonged beyond the valves in a 

 pointed beak, about half the length of the pod. Seeds 

 separated by pith. 



Parts used : — The seeds, and root. 



Uses:— The seeds are diuretic, laxative, and lithontriptic, 

 and the roots used for urinary and syphilitic diseases. Stewart 

 says the seeds are considered to be emmenagogue in the 

 Punjab. 



The seeds, in doses of one drachm, are useful in gonorrhoea. 

 The root is a reputed medicine for piles and gastrodynic pain 

 (Watt). 



The juice of the fresh leaves is also used as a diuretic and 

 laxative. 



In full and repeated doses, the seeds sometimes produce 

 vomiting, but this is so rare that they cannot be regarded as 

 an emetic (Moodeen Sheriff). 



N. 0. CAPPARIDE^]. 



86. Cleome viscosa, Linn. H.F.B.I., I. 170. 

 Roxb. 501. 



Syn, : — Polanisia icosandra, TI\ & A. 



Sans. : — Barbara, Karnasphota, Tilparni, Adityabhakta. 



Vern. : — Kanphuti, Hulhul, Purhur (H.) ; Boogra (Pb.) ; 

 Hoor-hooria (B.) ; Kathoree (Sind.), Kanphuti, Pivala tilavana, 

 (Bomb.); Nayavayhe, Nahikuddaghoo (Tamil); Kukaworainta, 

 (Teling.) ; Kat-kuddagho (Mai.) ; Jangli-hulvul, Choorai-ajwani, 

 (Dec.) : Tinmani, Tilwan (GuzA Wal-aba, Ran-manissa (Sin- 

 halese). 



Habitat : — Throughout tropical and warm India; Bombay, 

 Thana, Gujerat, Ceylon, 



