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and saffron (z. turmeric) and apply them externally for various 

 pains and swellings. They will heat them over a torch until smoked 

 and then apply them as a poultice over the spleen in intermittent 

 fever. The root is powdered and applied to the gums in order to 

 relieve the pain of toothache. The flowers are dried and roughly 

 powdered with or without the leaves and rolled into cigarettes for 

 the relief of asthma. The plant is probably the commonest used 

 in criminal poisoning. 



Datura — Recipe for a stimulating liniment for aching of the spine, 

 take equal parts of the Daun Kachubong, Bawang merah (red onion) 

 and Haliya (Ginger) pound well and squeeze out the juice use four 

 or five times a day. (Serasa, Kelantan, Dr. GiMLETTE.) 



Moringa pterygosperma, L. (Moringese) " Morungei." The 

 horse-radish tree is used in a favourite rubefacient, which consists of 

 ginger, garlic, mustard, bark of the Morungei, all moistened with 

 vinegar. It is rubbed on the part affected. 



Justicia gendarusa, L. [Acanthaceoe). Gandarusa is cultivated in 

 all Malay villages, and used for a variety of ailments for which it 

 has a great reputation, but especially for rheumatism and lumbago. 

 The leaves are rubbed up with those of Bakung (Crinum Asiaticum) 

 and black pepper and applied to the loins for lumbago. 



Zingiber Cassumunaar, Roxb. {Scitamineoe) "Bonglei". A com- 

 mon village ginger somewhat aromatic but not as hot as ordinary 

 ginger. A poultice made of the rhizome pounded mixed with spirit 

 or arrack is used as a stimulant and rubefacient in contusions and 

 rheumatic pains (HOLMES). 



Dropsy. 



This among Malays includes Beri-beri. 



Rennellia speciosa, Hook, fil (Rubiaceae) "Mengkudu Rimbah", 

 " Lempedu Tanah". A small shrub with beautiful violet flowers, not 

 very common. A decoction of the roots is used for dropsy and 

 rheumatism, externally or as a bath externally. 



Gmelina vil/osa, Roxb. (Verbenaceos) Bulangan. The acid fruit 

 rubbed up with lime and garlic and the body rubbed with the mix- 

 ture is used in dropsy. 



Vitis, sp. " Akar Sabunka ", prob. V. cinnamomea. The root is 

 employed in the form of a decoction as an outward application in 

 oedema of the legs caused by anaemia (HOLMES.) 



Moringa pterygosperma^ Gaertn. (Moringece) Morungei. The root 

 is used as a diuretic in dropsy as in India (HOLMES.) 



Hydrocele and Orchitis. 

 Coesalpinia bonducella (Leguminosce) "Kelichi" is used for 

 hydrocele. The leaves are ground up with salt to form a drink, 

 which is administered, and to the part affected the leaves roasted and 

 put in a cloth are applied hot. 



The plant is a very thorny shrub climbing on the sea -shore with 

 yellow flowers and a prickly pod containing two or more round grey 

 seeds. 



