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Kanda (black root) ; Sitasbringi (white-horned, ; Bhangura 
(frail) ; Upavishanika (tbe borns or rootlets turned upwards . 
Vern : — Atis (H.) ; Ati-vadayam (Tam.) ; Ati-vasa (Tel.) ; 
Moband-i-gujsafed ; liong-i-Safed (Kashmir) A’is (Bhotie) Sukhi- 
liari, Cbitijari ; Patris or Patis ; bonga (Pb.) ; Atavishni-Kali ; 
Ativisb or Ativakb (Guz.) ; Ativish (Mar.). 
Habitat -Common in tbeSubalpine and Alpine Zone of the 
Himalaya, from the Indus to Kumaon, from 6,000 to 15,000 ft.- 
Stem: — Erect, leafy, l-3ft., simple or branched from the 
base, glabrous below, puberulous above. . Leaves 2-4 in. broad 
ovate or orbicular. Cordate,- acute or obtuse ; cauline sharply 
toothed, tbe lowest loug-petioled and not amplexicaul. Racemes 
often panicled, many-flowered. Bracts sharply toothed, upper 
3-fid or entire. Flowers more than 1 in. long, bright blue, 
greenish blue, with purple veins. Helmet half as high as long, 
shortly beaked. Follicles 5, downy. Testa smooth. 
The roots contain an alkaloid, atisine, C S2 Hsi N 0 2 , (Alder 
Wright ) or C 40 II 74 N, Oj (Broughton). (See Sohn., p. 4,) and 
Aconitic acid, C 0 H 0 O n . 
In Dymock’s Mat. Medica. of W. I , (2nd edition, p. 7 , it 
is said: — “The English notices of this are to be found in 
Hindu works on Materia Medica, Sharangdhar and Chakradatt, 
where it is recommended as a remedy in fevers, diarrhoea, dys- 
pepsia and cough, also as an alexipharmic.” “ The author of 
the Makhzan-ul-Ad wiya says it is aphrodisiacal and tonic, checks 
diarrhoea and removes corrupt bile.” Dp to very recently, English 
physicians in India administered it as an antiperiodic in doses 
of about 30 grains, every 6 or 4 hours. Dr. M. Sheriff considers 
that the ordinary doses are onljj useful as a tonic, and that 2 
drams or more should be given as an antiperiodic. Probably, 
says Dr. Dytnock, the native estimate of the drug, as given 
above from the Makhzan, is not far from truth, viz., that it is 
tonic and digestive and often useful in dyspepsia with diarrhoea 
(Pharmacographia Indica, Vol. T., p. 16, 1890, Bombay). Dr. 
Tribhuvandas. M. Shah of Junagadh says it is anthelmintic and 
antifebrile, in doses of 10-30 grains. It can be given to children 
in fevers. 
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