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KINO. 
powder, or made up in pills, in doses of ten to sixty grains ; or dis- 
solved in water, or in the form of the diluted tincture. 
Off. The Gum Resin. 
Off. Pp. Tinctura Myrrhae, L. E. D. 
It also forms one of the ingredients in several of the compound 
medicines of the Pharmacopoeias. 
KINO. 
In commerce there appears to be several varieties of this drug. The 
London college considers the best sort of Kino as the product of an 
African plant, a species of Pterocarpus (Erinacea), a native of Sene- 
gal. The Edinbvirjrh college, however, has inserted Kino as the 
inspissated juice of the Eucalypfns Resinlfera brown gum-iroA of 
Botany Bay; and the Dublin college (on the authority of Dr. Rox- 
burgh) have named the Butea Frondosa as the tree which yields the 
officinal Kino. Besides these, it appears there are several other 
plants which produce this substance.* Hence it appears, that the 
product of several different trees have, at various periods, been im- 
ported into this country under the specific name of Kino ; and that 
the chemical properties of these various kinds vary considerably, f 
Medical Properties AND Uses. Kino is a powerful as- 
tringent ; hence it is sometimes employed in obstinate chronic 
diarrhoeas and dysenteries, and also in uterine and intestinal hemoi-- 
rhages, fluor albus, and leucorrhaea, and other diseases arising from 
laxity of the solids. Externally it is applied as a styptic to check 
hemorrhages from wounds or ulcers, and to diminish the sanious 
discharge from ill-conditioned ulcers. It may be given in sub»tance, 
in doses of from ten to thirty grains ; or in the form of tincture, or 
the watery infusion : of the former, one drachm may be taken several 
times a day, and from one to two ounces of the latter. 
Off, Kino. 
Off. Pp. Tinctura Kino, L. E. D. 
* Vide Edin. DIsp. IKh ed. p. 379. Thomson's Lend. Disp. 4th ed. p. 507. 
•f' Want of room will not allow us to enter into the chemical properties of Kino ; 
we must, therefore, refer our readers to the London Dispensatory, by A. T. Thom/spn, 
•where this subject is treated at length. 
