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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



The leaves fall about March and April, the fresh foliage 

 comes out in June. Flowers, when the tree is leafless, some- 

 times before the old leaves fall or after the fresh appear. 

 Coppices well, and readily grows from the cutting (Brand is). 



" Uses : — The gum of this tree is used as a diaphoretic and 

 astringent, and is used in the preparation of ointment for sores. 

 It is also prescribed with clarified butter in syphilitic diseases ; 

 with cocoanut oil for sores ; and as a stimulant in pulmonary 

 diseases. The Olibanum is also given in bronchorrcea and 

 chronic laryngitis, employed both internally and in the form of 

 fumigation. An ointment has been prepared from it which is 

 said to be a good stimulant application to carbuncles, ulcera- 

 tions, boils, &c. The Mahomedans consider it hot and dry, 

 and to have dessicative, astringent properties " (Dymock). 



" The resin in tears is known is hundur, but in soft masses 

 it is called gundah-ferosah" (Modeen Sheriff.) In Bombay it is 

 known as gandaberoza. 



Mixed with gum acacia, it is used as a corrective for foul 

 breath. Used for any length of time in one drachm doses it is 

 said to reduce obesity. 



Dr. Moodeen Sheriff considers it to be an internal and ex- 

 ternal stimulant, expectorant, stimulant diuretic and stomachic. 

 It is also a slight hepatic stimulant. Useful in jaundice, not 

 depending on mechanical obstruction, and in some slight and 

 chronic cases of diarrhoea, dysentery, dyspepsia, pulmonary 

 affections and haemorrhoids. In the form of an oily solution, 

 it exercises some good influence over the growth of the hair ; 

 and in that of an ointment, it excites a healthy action in some 

 weak and unhealthy kinds of ulceration. 



" The gum-resin is used to promote the absorption of bubo, 

 and is applied locally. The oil in 10 or 20 minim doses is 

 useful in gonorrhoea, taken in demulcent drinks" (Surgeon 

 C. M. Russel, Bengal.) 



" Refrigerant, diuretic, and emmenagogue" (Saboona Lai, 

 Hospital-Assistant, Jubbulpore.) 



"Astringent, applied in the form of an ointment to chronic 

 ulcers, diseased bones, buboes, &c." 



