1256 . INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



Uses : — The seeds are stimulant and carminative, and are 

 useful in all the affections in which the common cardamoms are 

 indicated. They are also of great service in relieving tormina 

 and tenesmus, and even frequency of motions, in some cases 

 of dysentery, and, for this purpose, they must always be used 

 in powder with butter. They are administered in simple 

 powder and compound tincture, the latter being prepared in 

 the same way as the Tincture Cardamom Co. of the Pharma- 

 copoeia of India. Dose of the powder, from 20 to 40 grains, 

 and of the tincture, from 3i to 3ii. (Moodeen Sheriff, Khan 

 Bahadur, Madras.) 



1242. A. subulatum, Roxb., h.f.b.i., vr. 240. 

 Roxb. 15. 



Sans. : — Brihat upa kunchika ; Ela. 



Vern. :— Bari-ilacbf (H.) ; Bara-elach (B.) ; Elachi, elcho, 

 moto-ilachi (Guj.); Mote-veldode (Mar.) ; Periyaelakkay, kattu- 

 elak-kay (Tam.) ; Peddaelakayalu, adaviyela-kaya (Tel.) ; Dodda- 

 elakki (Kan.) ; Perelam, periya-elattari (Mai.). 



Habitat : — Eastern Himalayas. 



Root-stock perennial, widely creeping. Leafy stem 3-lft. 

 Leaves l-2ft. by 3-4in., green, glabrous on both surfaces, oblong, 

 lanceolate. Spike globose, very dense, shortly peduncled, 

 2-3in. ; bracts red-brown, outer ones lin., ovate, obtuse, with a 

 horny cusp, inner shorter and obtuse. Calyx and corolla-tube 

 lin. ; segments subulate, shorter than the tube. Lip obovate, 

 cuneate, emarginate, yellowish-white, rather longer than the 

 corolla-segments. Filaments very short, anther-crest entire, 

 small, truncate. Capsule densely echinate, lin., globose, red- 

 brown. 



Uses : — The seeds yield a medicinal oil. It is an agreeable, 

 aromatic stimulant. 



" It acts as a stomachic, and is said to allay irritability of 

 the stomach produced either by cholera or some other affections. 

 The decoction of cardamom is used as a gargle in affections of 

 the teeth and gums. In combination with the seeds of melons 



