230 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Of the two pair of spines, one pair is long and one short. The 

 cocci are very variable. Stigmatic lobes larger than the dia- 

 meter of the styles. 



Parts used : — The entire plant, and especially the fruit and 

 leaves. 



Uses : — In Hindoo Medicine, the fruits are regarded as 

 cooling, diuretic, tonic and aphrodisiac, and are used in painful 

 micturition, calculous affections, urinary disorders and im- 

 potence. They form one of the ten ingredients which constitute 

 the Dashamula of the Hindoo physicians (Dutt). 



They are considered astringent, and Belle w states that 

 they are taken by women to ensure fecundity, and an infusion 

 of the stems taken for gonorrhoea (Stewart). 



In the Gujrat district of the Punjab, it is used in diseases 

 of the kidneys, suppression of urine, also in cough and diseases 

 of the heart (Ibbetson). 



In South of Europe, it is used as an aperient and diuretic. 

 (O'Shaughnessy). 



In Southern India, t he fruit is highly valued as a diuretic. 

 In many cases where this has been tried, the result was quite 

 perceptible in the increase of the urinary secretion. There is 

 another method of administration, in which the fruit and the 

 root boiled with rice to form a medicated water, which is 

 taken in large quantities (Ph. Ind.) 



According to Moodeen Sheriff, the fruit and leaves are 

 demulcent, diuretic and useful in cases of strangury, gleet 

 and chronic cystitis. He recommends a decoction and the fresh 

 juice of the leaves. 



An infusion made from the fruit has been found very 

 useful as a diuretic in gout, kidney disease and gravel ; also 

 used largely in the Panjab as an aphrodisiac (F. F. Perry, in 

 Watts' Dictionary). 



205. T. alatus, Delile. h.f.b.i , i. 423. 



Vera. : — Nindo-trikund, gokhuri-kalan (H. ); Lotak, bakli- 

 ra, hasak (Pb.) ; Latak (Sindj. 



Habitat: — Sindh and Punjab, at Multan. 



