MEDICINAL PLANTS ANlD DRUGS. 185 



excited my surprize. The success with which the natives employ them, 

 in these complaints, has induced some European pra<5litioners to adopt the 

 practice, and I hope it will come into general use„ The mode of employ- 

 ing the leaves is simple. A quantity of them, pulled fresh from the tree, 

 is put into an earthen pot, and heated over the fire, to as great a degree 

 as daii Be b6rne without pain. They are then applied to the part affected, 

 in as large a quantrty as can be conveniently kept on hy a proper bandage, 

 and the application is repeated,' three or four times a day, until the tumor 

 IS dispelled,- 



U.^^mEDICIJsrAL DRUGS. 



L,;VEGETABLE, 



THE following vegetable drugs are imported into Hindustan from the 

 neighbouring countries, none of the plant^ which yield them being either 

 indigenous, or found in. ?L, cultivated state in the P^-ninsula, The drugs 

 themselves, however, are in common use with the native practitioners, 

 and sold in all the principal bazars. 



Asa rmrtDA. Hing,(^) IL Hinga, S. 



T, , . ^ . (Murray, IV. 358, 

 Ferula Asa'tcetida: < 



<W00DV1LLE, I. 22. 



Benzoin, Luban,i~') H. and Arab. 



Styrax Benzoin. 



Gajepvt Oil. C«j«pttfM, Malay. 



, , , , ■■ ^ , (Murray, III. 313. 



Melaleuca Leucodendron. < 



(WoODVILLE, IV. 44. 



Murray, IV. 540 and 659. 



WOODVILLE, n. 200, 



(') Jlcaig. (2) Looban, 



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