N. 0. STERCULIACE^l. 211 



" . . . I have generally used the medicine during the 

 period of the menses, commencing from two days before its 

 appearance (when the pain precedes the flow) three days 

 during the flow and two days after its cessation. In case of 

 no premonitory pains, the medicine is given from the first day 

 of the flow for seven days successively with equally good 

 results. 



1 A single administration daring the menses generally cures 

 the disease and brings on conception in young married 

 women 



"Attempts have been made to administer the drug in the 

 more acceptable forms of tincture, pill or powder, but none 

 prove so efficacious as the fresh viscid sap in substance, in which 

 form I have used it with wonderful results. 



"Menstrual disorders, and notably the varieties of dysme- 

 norrhea, are very prevalent in this country, and it seems nature 

 has supplied it with a simple efficacious medicine by endowing 

 the roots of an indigenous plant with such singular virtues. 

 It is noteworthy that the roots branch out in numerous tender 

 offshoots, superficially under the ground, and can be easily taken 

 out in abundance." 



Dr. J. H. Thornton considers that it is useful in the 

 congestive and neuralgic varieties of dysmenorrhea, and that 

 it regulates the menstrual flow and acts as an uterine tonic. It 

 should be given during menstruation, with black pepper. The 

 dose is said to be half a drachm of the fresh viscid juice of the 

 root-bark (Am. Journ. Med. Sci., p. 276, 1873). 



The infusion of fresh leaves and stems in cold-water is de- 

 mulcent, and very efficacious in gonorrhoea (Surgeon Meadows, 

 in Watt's Dictionary.) 



187. Guazuma tomentosa, Kuntli, h.f.b.l, 

 i. 375. 



Vern. : — Nipal tunth (Beng.) Of the bark : — Bandoq-ke- 

 jhar-ki chhal (Dec.) ; Tain-puchli-pattai (Tarn.) ; Udrik-patta 

 (Tel.) ; Rudrakshi (Kan.). 



