392 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



and produces good effects in dysmenorrhoea. In inflammations 

 around the uterus (pelvic cellulitis and peritonitis) it has been 

 used with much benefit. 



" S. anacardium is a powerful diaphoretic. It is very useful 



in scaly skin diseases. 



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" It is believed by the Indians that if the drug betaken 

 internally in small, but gradually increasing, doses in the winter, 

 it makes one free from coughs and colds and senile degenera- 

 tions. 



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" Winter is the best season for the use of S. anacardium. It 

 being a very heating remedy, its dose cannot be pushed to any 

 length in summer. 



" I have been using this drug for more than six years, with- 

 out seeing any bad effect other than erythematous rash. In the 

 Campbell Hospital I have made many bed-ridden cases of 

 disseminated sclerosis walk about in the hospital compound. 

 As an alterative, it is very useful in secondary and tertiary stages 

 of syphilis. 



" I have used it successfully in two cases of epidemic dropsy 

 of the legs recently." 



332. Holigarna Amottiana, Hook f. h.f.bj., ii. 



36. 



Vern. : — Bibu ; hulgeri (Bom.) ; Holgeri (M.) ; Kagira, 

 Kutugeri (Kan.) 



Habitat :— Western Peninsula, from the Concan southward 

 on the Ghats. 



Leafy handsome trees with stout-branches, Leaves 6-9 by 

 2-3in., coriaceous shining above reticulated or glaucous not 

 beneath ; cuneate-obovate decurrent. Nerves 10-20 pair, 

 strong nearly straight ; petrole i-lin., rather slender. Panicle 

 of compound racemes, axillary and terminal, shorter or longer 



