Should there be any subject on which you wish for information 
from Kelantan at any time, I hope you will let me know, as I always 
enjoy having some work of this kind on hand. 
Trusting that you will excuse my tjoubling you with this letter. 
1 have, etc,, 
H. >W. THOMSON. 
NOTES RE MALAY MATERIA MEDICA. 
Given by Haji Ahmad, Kampong Lipang, Kelantan. 
1. Minyak Jarak (Castor-oil). — Used for inflammation of 
muscles. 
2. Minyak Kayu Gharu. — Used for shooting pains in the 
stomach. 
3. Glang Pasir [Eugenia sp ). — Roots used for general debility. 
4. Bermin ( Herpestes monnieria ) . — Leaves used for thread-worms. 
5. Akar Tempu or Tempu Ranak [>Rubus moluccanus ). — Roots 
used in case of a mild stroke of paralysis. 
6. Akar Jolong Hitam. — Roots used for malarial fever. 
7. Poko’ Ekor Kuching and Poko’ Ekor Pari. — Roots used for 
pain about the kidneys. * 
8. Akar Kemian Hantu. — Roots used 4 for syphilis (? or for 
leprosy). 
9. Rumput Sabueh. — Used for relieving excess of phlegm, boiled 
with Kemian Arab, and the liquid drunk. 
10. Akar Sumpu Darah.— Roots used forj* colic 1 attended with 
constipation. 
11. Akar Priok Kra ( Nepenthes ). — Used for remittent fever 
rubbed on a grindstone and the liquid drunk while at the 
same time “ Klat Benar” pisangs are eaten. 
12. Ribu-ribu. — Used for fever with perspiration at nights — take 
the leaves together with Lalang leaves and spread them 
over the mattress. ■> 
13. Chendawan Merah. — Used for skin disease which causes the 
skin to peel off — heat it over a fire together with the 
feathers of Cotton Teal, add some oil of padi husk (? the 
^ volatilised essence), andr spread it over the patches of 
diseased skin. 
14. h’egaga [H ydrocotyle asiaticd ). — Leaves used for Asthma — 
take the leaves with some leaves of both kinds of Ruku ruku 
( Ocimum ) (R. padang and R. hutan), three strips of Bawang 
Puteh and three strips. of Halia Merah, chew them and spit 
them out on to the four “cardinal points” of the patient’s 
body (chest, back and sides). 
