1122 INDIAN MEDICINAL fLANTS. 



Uses : — It is given with milk to children in colic (Stewart). 

 It possesses properties similar to those of E. pilulifera and E. 

 thymifolia iS. Arjun). Dr. W. Zollickoffer (in Am. Journ. of 

 Med, Soc. XL 22) recommends an infusion of the dried leaves 

 as a remedy in dysentery, diarrhoea, menorrhagia, and leucor- 

 rhoea, and finds that it affects the system as an astringent and 

 feeble narcotic. 



1113. E. pilulifera, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 250. 



Syn. :— E. hirta, Linn. Roxb. 394. 



Vern. :— Bum keru (B.) ; Dudhi (EL); Pusi-toa (Santal) ; 

 Gordon (C. P.) ; Nayeti (Bomb.) ; Dudhi or mothidudhi (Mar.) ; 

 Dudheli (Guz.) ; Atnumpatchay-arissi (Tarn.) ; Bidarie, nana- 

 beeam, nanabala (Tel.). 



Habitat :— Throughout the hotter parts of India from the 

 Punjab eastwards and southwards to Ceylon and Singapore. 



An annual herb, erect or ascending, hispid with copious, 

 crisped hairs. Stem and branches l-2ft. Leaves very short, 

 opposite, elliptic-oblong, obovate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 toothed or serrulate, i-l|in. long; base usually narrow and 

 obliquely cordate ; nerves distinct. Stipules minute, linear ; 

 petiole distinct, very short. Involucres numerous, in axillary 

 and terminal dense-fid, sessile or peduncled cymes, minute, 

 about jbin., pubescent ; limb or glands very narrow or 

 obsolete ; glands small, globose. Capsule ^m. diam., appres- 

 sedly or patently hairy. Seeds pale-brown, acutely-angled, 

 transversely, shallowly rugulose, ovoid. 



Uses. — Reported to have been successfully used in asthma 

 and chronic bronchial affections. It is used in the forms of 

 decnctf.oj or concentrated essence (Christy's New Plants and 

 Drugs No. V., p. 61, 1882 ; No. VI., p. 93, 1882 ; No. VII., p. 47, 

 1884 ; No. VIII., p. 55, 1885 ; No. IX., p. 35, 1886). " Dr. Daruty 

 informs me that the juice of both the Euphorbia pilulifera and E. 

 hypericifolia is given with benefit in dysentery and colic, and 

 that the milk is applied to destroy warts" (Christy, N. C. P., 

 No. IX., p. 36). 



The plant is chiefly used in the affections of childhood, in 

 worms, bowel complaints and cough. Sometimes prescribed 



