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in it from the minute traces of berbevine which the plant is 
supposed to contain. I think also that this drug is useful where 
there is an acid diarrhoea, due to an acidity of the intestinal canal 
or acid dyspepsia. It is useful in relieving the symptoms of 
rheuinastism. There is another preparation of this plant— the 
suecus (juice), fresh prepared from the fresh plant. It acts as 
a powerful diuretic. It is prescribed by ancient Hindu physi- 
cians in gonorrhoea with advantage. Considering that in the 
earlier stages of gonorrhoea we now try to reduce the acidity 
of urine by alkaline mixtures, it is probable this drug acts by 
reducing the acidity of urine in gonorrhoea. Dose of the succus 
2-3 drams in water, milk or honey, thrice daily.” (See Congress 
Proceedings, Melbourne p. 947. 1889). 
In the Bombay Druggists’ shops the starch of Gulwel is 
found not unoften adulterated. ‘‘I was supplied not once, but 
several times, with the English-made powder of Zea Mays—our 
common Maka (corn-flour) for the Satwa of Gulwel. Sometimes 
I was given masses of the common Attah (wheat flour).” (See 
K. R. Kirtikar’s Presidential Address 5th All-India Ayurvedic 
Conference, Muttra, 1914, p. 14). 
Speaking of its employment as an autiperiodic, Waring states, 
that he employed it in twenty cases of ordinary quotidian fever 
in Burma; and in each case it prevented the accession of the 
cold stage, but it did not appear to diminish the severity, or 
prevent the regular return of the hot stage, a peculiarity, he adds, 
not observed by him in the use of any other remedy of the same 
class. Oulaneha is also regarded by the natives in certain parts 
of India as a specific for the bites of poisonous insects and veno- 
mous snakes. 
41 . Anamirta Cocculus, W. and A. h. f.b.i., i. 98 . 
Syn. A. Paniculata, Colebr. Menispermum cocculus, Linn. 
Habitat : — Eastern Bengal ; Khasia hills ; Assam ; amd from 
Concan and Orissa to Ceylon, up to 2,000 ft. 
Sansk. : — K&kam&ri. 
I 
Vern. K&kamari (H. and B.) ; Kakaphala ; V&toli (Bomb.) ; 
