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10-30 grains. The stare! y matter is administered in gliee, or with 
molasses, or in sugar and water, or in milk. This information is 
collected from the works of Dr. Tribhuvandas Motichand Shah 
of Junagadh and Pandit Jaya Krishna Indraji of Porebundar. 
(1909-1910). 
In a paper, entitled “ A note on some Indian Drugs,” with 
exhibits of medicinal preparations, read before the section of 
Pharmacology of the 2nd Session of the International Medical 
Congress of Australasia, held at Melbourne (Victoria) in January 
1889, Surgeon K. R. Kirtikar made the following observations 
on T. cordifolia (Gulwel or garola). The preparation exhibited 
was a powder of the dried stem of the plant prepared by the 
late Mr. M. C. Pariera of Bandra, who was for a long time con- 
nected with the Government Medical Stores of Bombay, under 
the late Brigade-Surgeon W. Dymock. Surgeon Kirtikar said 
as follows : — “ The powder of the stem is used in making an 
infusion in the proportion of one ounce of the powder to ten 
fluid ounces of cold water. The medicinal value of the plant 
is due to a small quantity o'f Berberine. It is used as an 
alterative and tonic, and has enjoyed the reputation among 
ancient Hindu writers of being an aphrodisiac ; but as a 
drug it being never prescribed alone as an aphrodisiac, its 
reputation as such is of a doubtful nature. The dose of the 
infusion is one to three ounces., There is a starch obtained from 
the roots and stems of the plant which goes under the name 
Gulweliche-satwa (the starch of Gulwel), which is similar to 
Arrow-root in appearance and effect. It answers not only as 
i remedial medicinal agent in chronic diarrhoea and some forms 
of obstinate chronic dysentery, but it is also a valuable nutrient, 
when there is intestinal irritability and inability to digest any 
kind of food. I have myself had experience of the usefulness 
of this starch. Dr. Dymock says ‘ through not having been 
washed, the starch has been found to retain some of the 
bitterness of the plant.’ I have several times tasted the starch 
myself and have not found it bitter to any appreciable degree, 
probably from the fact that my specimens were different from 
those of Dr. Dymock (and perhaps fresh and better- washed) ; 
but I have no doubt that the starch has some medicinal property 
