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used in the cure of intermittent fever. It constitutes an ingre- 

 dient in the dasamul or ten roots. "Used on the Malabar Coast 

 in hypochondriasis, melancholia, and palpitation of the heart." 

 (Rheede.) 



(d) The leaves are made into poultice, used in the treat- 

 ment of ophthalmia, and the fresh juice diluted is praised in 

 catarrhs and feverishness. 



(e) The astringent rind of the ripe fruit is used in dyeing 

 and tanning. It is also sometimes used medicinally, 



The expressed juice of the leaves is used in ophthalmia 

 and other eye affections. In Malabar a decoction of the leaves 

 is valued in asthmatic complaints. A hot poultice to the head 

 is used in delirium of fevers. 



A water, distilled from the flowers, is said to be alexiphar- 

 mic. 



A decoction of the root of lEgle Marmelos is given with 

 sugar and fried rice for checking diarrhoea and gastric irrita- 

 bility in infants. 



" The fresh juice of the leaves is given, with the addition 

 of black pepper, in anasarca, with, costiveness and jaundice. In 

 external inflammations, the juice of the leaves is given internally 

 to remove the supposed derangement of humours" (U. K. 

 Dutt). 



" The Mahomedans consider the ripe fruit to be hot and 

 dry, the very young fruit to be cold in the second degree, and 

 the half-ripe fruit cold in the first and dry in the second degree ; 

 its properties are described in the Makhzan-el-Adioiya as car- 

 diacal, restorative, tonic and astringent ; it is directed to be 

 combined with sugar for administration to prevent its giving 

 rise to piles. * ® * In the Concan the small unripe fruit is 

 given with fennel seeds and ginger, in decoction, for piles. 

 •:•:- * -:•:- ^wo t i as f the juice of the bark is given with a little 

 cummin in milk as a remedy for poverty of the seminal fluid" 

 (Dymock). 



" The pulp of the unripe fruit is soaked in gingelly oil for 

 a week, and this oil, smeared over the body before bathing, to 



