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with honey. A decoction of the root-bark is used as a wash for 
unhealthy ulcers, and is said to improve their appearance and 
promote cicatrization. ® 9 Rasot, mixed witli honey, is said to 
be^an useful application to aphthous sores ” (Dutt’s Materia 
Medicaof the Hindus). 
50 . B. Lyciuvi, Royie, h . f . b . l , i . 10 . 
Verti. : — The •same as those for 13. aristata. 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya, in dry, hot places, from Garh- 
wal to Hazara, Jaunsar, Tehri and Garlnval, outer Himalayas 
3-7,000 ft. Simla, 9,000 ft. 
An erect rigid shrub. Bark white or pale grey. Branches 
angular. Leaves sessile or subsessile, tough, coriaceous, narrowly- 
lanceolate, obovate, oblong, sub-persistent, not lacunose, Ij-flj 
by in., inner ovate, very spinulose, or the teeth few and 
small or entire (.Collett. ) ; upper surface bright green, lower 
paler; venation lax. Racemes shortly stalked, simple or com- 
pound, longer than the leaves, often corymbose, drooping, 
barely longer than the leaves. Flowers pale yellow, stalks 
slender, 5 in., style short, but distinct. Berry ovoid, violet, 
covered with bloom. 
Part used : — The extract, known as Rasout. 
Rasot or Rasavanti, used as an antidote against opium- 
habit, by Bhagwanlal Indraji (Pandit J. Indraji.) 
Dr. Royie says : — “ I have myself occasionally prescribed 
it, and the native mode of application makes it peculiarly eligi- 
ble -in cases succeeding acute inflammation, when the eye 
remains much swollen. The extract is, by native practitioners, 
in such cases rubbed into a proper consistence with a little 
water, sometimes with the addition of opium and alum, and 
applied in a thick layer over the swollen eyelids ; the addition 
of a little oil I have found preferable, as preventing the too 
rapid desiccation. Patients generally express themselves as 
experiencing considerable relief from the application." 
It is mentioned by the author of the Periplus, who lived 
about the first century, as an export from the Indies, and that 
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