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A native article of diet, known as amchur or ambosi 
(Bom.), is made of green mangoes which have been skinned, 
their stones removed and the pulp cut up into pieces and dried 
in the sun, is recommended by the Inspector-General of Prisons, 
North-Western Provinces and Oudh, as a good and cheap 
antiscorbutic for native troops (Dr. Emerson). 
The flowers of the mango are used either in the form of 
tea or powder for catarrh of the bladder. The powder is also 
used in the form of fumigation against mosquitoes (Brazilian 
Drugs, Ph. J., Oct. 25, 1884). 
Introduced into America in the form of fluid extract, either 
from the fruit or the rind. Astringent with a specific tonic 
action on mucous membranes. Its effects are great in diphtheria 
and other malignant throat diseases. The fluid extract applied 
locally is very useful in haemorrhages. (I. M. G. February 1883, 
p. 56). 
The kernels of the seeds contain 47-5 per cent, of water, and 5-2 per 
cent, of fat, which melts at S6°C, ; acid valne, 12*3 ; Saponification value, 175 ; 
iodine value, 54*5 ; Reichert-Meissl valne, 0 2. The balk of the fat consists of 
oleodistearin. By adding alcohol to the ether solution of the fat until 
turbidity occurs, this crystallises out in fine needles ; m. pt. about 44°C ; 
readily soluble in ether, sparingly so in alcohoL 
[J. Ch. I. May 31, 1911, p. 834], 
The gum contains 1657 per cent, of moisture and 3'357 per cent, of ash, 
and the dry substance is soluble in water to the extent of 39-36 per cent., the 
solution having [a] d— 25 33°. The gum contains an oxydase, yielding a red 
colour with guaiacol solution. 
It contains 71*42 per cent, of sugars, including 25'33 of galactose, and 
85'095 of pentoses (arabinose was also separated). 
The portion insoluble in water contains moisture 10'51 ; and in the dry 
substance, galactose 32'08 ; pentoses 42-87 ; total galactoses, 80-28 per cent., 
having «d-|-64'89°. 
(P. Lemeland, J. Pharm. Ohim. (1904) J. Ch. S. Vol. LXXXVI, pt. II., p. 
583 
327 . — Anaeardium occidentale, Linn., h.f.b.i., 
ii. 20, Roxb., 342. 
Vern. : — Kaju (H.) ; Hijli-Mdam (B.) ; Kottaimundi, Rolla 
mavu (Tam.); Kdjucha-bi, kajii (Mab.); gidi-mamedi, munda- 
