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of the stomach, dyspepsia, vomiting, pain in the liver or womb, 

 induration of the uterus, amenorrhoea, calculi, and nocturnal 

 spermatic discharges. 



Ainslie (ii., 170) says : "Kull-pashie is the Tamool name 

 given to a dried pale-coloured rock moss, which the Vytians 

 [Vaidyas] suppose to possess a peculiar cooling quality, and 

 prepare with it a liniment for the head." (Pharmacogr. Ind. 

 III. 627-628). 



" Some years since it attracted considerable attertion as a diuretic, for 

 which purpose it was first boiled in water, then beaten into a pulp or bruised 

 in a mortar, and placed as a poultice over the renal and lumbar regions. 

 Its efficacy in dropsical affections was attested by Dr. Stevenson, of H. M. 

 13th Dragoons (Calcutta Med. Phys. Trans., vol. v. p. 430), Dr. W. H. Radford 

 (Mad. Med. Journ. 1839, vol. i. p. 18), and others (Ibid. 1843, vol. v. p. 389). 

 According to these authorities the application of the lichen poultice was 

 followed by marked diuresis ; and dropsical cases which had resisted ordi- 

 nary means, improved or recovered under its use. Dr. S. Rogers (Ibid. vol. i. 

 p. 18), however, states that he tried it extensively at the Madras Native 

 Infirmary, and that in every instance he failed to observe that it produced 

 the least effect upon the kidneys. To test its alleged efficacy, it should be 

 tried in a series of cases simultaneously with another series treated with 

 an ordinary linseed or rice poultice ; and the probability is that the continu- 

 ous application of warmth and moisture by their means respectively would 

 be fonnd nearly equal." (Pharm. of India p. 260.) 



