1202 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



membranous inflated, gall and female flower intermixed ; 

 perianth toothed ; gall ovary, ovoid, rough. Achene granulate ; 

 stigma clavate. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Uses : — The leaves, bark and fruit are employed in native 

 medicine. The bark is given as an astringent and as a wash 

 for wounds. It is also employed to remove the poison from 

 wounds made by a tiger or cat. The root is useful in dysentery, 

 and a fluid obtained from it by incision is administered as a 

 powerful tonic. The leaves reduced to powder and mixed with 

 honey are given in bilious affections. The small blister-like 

 galls common on the leaves, soaked in milk and mixed with 

 honey are given to prevent pitting in small-pox. (Atkinson.) 

 The figs are considered astringent, stomachic and carminative, 

 and are given in menorrhagia and hemoptysis. The milky juice 

 is administered in piles and diarrhoea, and in combination 

 with sesamum oil in cancer. The fresh juice of the ripe fruit 

 is used as an adjunct to a metallic preparation which is 

 given in diabetes and other urinary diseases. In Bombay, 

 the sap is a popular remedy, which is locally applied to mumps 

 and other inflammatory glandular enlargements, and is given 

 in doses of four tolas with cumin and sugar for gonorrhoea. 

 (Dymock.) The bark is given to cattle when suffering from 

 rinder-pest. It is ground with onions, cumin, and cocoanut 

 spathes and mixed with vinegar. (Coimbatore Dist. Man.) 

 The sap of the root is used in diabetes. (T. R. Moodeliar.) 

 An infusion of the bark is much employed by the Tamil- 

 speaking people for menorrhagia. (Dr. Thomas in Watt's Die.) 

 Ghem. on analysis it was found to contain : 



Water ... ... ... ... ... 136 



Albuminoids* ... ... ... ... 7'4 



Oil... ... ... ... ... 5*6 



Carbohydrates! ... ... ... ... 490 



Fibre ... ... ... ... ... 17'9 



Ash;f; ... ... ... ... ... 65 



The alcoholic extract contains a strace of soluble tannin which gives a 

 light-green precipitate with ferric chloride.— (Agricul. Ledger, 1904— No. 4. 



* Containing nitrogen ... ... ... ... 119 per cent. 



| Ditto colouring matter .. t ... ... 8*5 



. f Ditto silica ... ... ... ... 0'25 



I \ Ditto phosphoric acid ... ... ... 0'91 



