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and saffron (i.e. 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. GlMLETTE.) 
Moringa pterygosperma , L. ( Moringeee ) f ‘ 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 Wack 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. 
Gmelma villosa , Roxb. {V trbenaceoe) Bulangan. The acid fruit 
rubbed up with lime and garlic and the body rubbed with the mix- 
ture is used in dropsy. 
Vitis y 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. ( Moringeae ) Morungei. The root 
is used as a diuretic in dropsy as in India (HOLMES.) 
Hydrocele and Orchitis. 
Coesalpmia bonducella ( Legu minosos ) “ 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. 
