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it contains a resin, a bitter extractive, and a volatile oil. The 

 dose of the powdered root is about twenty grains, or it may be 

 given in infusion (two drachms of the bruised root to ten ounces 

 of boiling water), in doses of an ounce or more. As a medicine, 

 as far as is at present known, it is an article of very minor 

 importance. (Ph. Ind.) " The otto is given in two minim doses 

 to check the vomiting of cholera." (Dr. Houston.) "Used in 

 the form of cigarettes with benzoin, it relieves headache." 

 (Dr. Lancaster)— Watt's Die. 



1338. A. Iwarancusa, Jones, h.f.b.l, vii. 203. 



Syn : — A. laniger, Desf. 



Sans. :— Lamajjaka. 



Vern. : — Lamjak, bur, khawi, khoi, panni, solara, san, 

 ibharankusha, karan kusha, gbat-zari Miriya ban, ganguli, 

 bad, piriya (H. and Pb.) ; Karankusa, ibharankusha (B.) ; 

 Izkir Pivala-vala (Mar.) ; Pilo-valo (Guz.) 3 



Habitat : — Dry desert tracts, Lower Himalayan tract, extend- 

 ing to the plains of U. P. and Sind. 



Perennial, csespitose. Stems erect, thick and woolly below. 

 Leaves smooth, glaucous, stiff ; blades narrow and convolute. 

 Panicles erect, narrowly oblong, composed of distant fascicles 

 of spikes surrounded at the base by blunt boat-shaped yellowish 

 sheaths. Rachis and pedicels of the awnless male spikelets 

 densely clothed with white hairs. Flowering glumes of herma- 

 phrodite florets minute, transparent, bidentate, and with a 

 very slender bent awn from between the teeth. (Duthie.) 



Uses : — Used to purify the blood, and in coughs, chronic 

 rheumatism and cholera It is recommended as a valuable aro- 

 matic tonic in dyspepsia, especially that of children ; it is also 

 used as a stimulant and diaphoretic both by natives and Euro- 

 peans, in gout, rheumatism and fever. (Baden-Powell.) 



The Arabian and Persian physicians describe Idkhir as hot 

 and dry, lithontriptic, diuretic, emmenagogue, and carminative ; 

 they recommend it to be boiled in wine as a diuretic ; ground 

 into a paste it is said to be a good application to abdominal 



