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to pound these articles to powder, to which we add a little 

 water and then ^pri.ikle all over the elephant's body for about 

 three consecutive days. 



Another remedy is to take the root of the red bung a 

 raia, and the root of the jar any songsang ; we chew them with 

 betel nut and betel leaf and squirt the mixture from our mouth 

 upon the elephant for three consecutive days or evenings. 



This is the medicine for an elephant which has the 

 diseases known as kesar ayer or kesar angin. 



We take about a gantang measure of rembiga leaves, 

 pound them to pulp and rub them over the elephant's body; 

 or, adding water, apply them as a wash— we do this for four 

 or five days. 



Another medicine for kesar ayer is as follows : of the 

 lenjuang puteh we take the roots, the leaves, and the cabbage 

 heart ; we take leaves of the sensitive plant, the bark of 

 the bongli, kunyit trus of both the black and white varieties 

 mesivi, red onions and white pepper. All these ingredients, 

 Ave chew with betel nut and betel leaf and squirt from our 

 mouth over the elephant's body; we do this for two or three days. 



This is a cooling lotion. We take the fruit of the knbong, 

 the leaves of the bimgkal and the cabbage-heart of the tebe- 

 rau ; we pound them to pulp and soak them in an earthenware 

 pot, andthen apply for about three consecutive days or evenings. 



As we apply it we repeat these words. 

 Om kak tiu tiu sak. 



Yet another remedy for kesar is this : we take leaves of 

 the sentang hantu, mataiang, and betel-nut tree ; pound 

 them to pulp and add a little whitewash, and rub the compound 

 over the elephant's body for four or five days. 



And yet another remedy : we take the red fruit that grows on 

 sand banks, and any kind of fruit of trees whose early leaves 

 are red, and give them to the elephant to eat with a little Siamese 

 salt. Of this medicine we give, in small quantities, as much as 

 the elephant will eat. 



R. A. Soc, No. 45, 1905. 



