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the intestinal lining is found. Gardol seems to be excreted 
chiefly with the urine, but partially also with fasces. Applied 
on a small piece of lint to the skin of the breast, it raised 
a watery blister in 14 hours (Am. Journ. Pharm., 1882, 
Dymock). 
Between the laminae of the shell of the kernel there is a 
black caustic fluid, which contains an acrid, oily principle, 
cardol and a peculiar acid, anacardic acid. 
The spirit distilled from the expressed juice of the fruit 
may be used as a stimulant (Watt.) 
The kernel is nutritive, demulcent and emollient ; and the 
oil emollient. In the form of mixture, the kernel is useful for all 
the purposes for which the Mistura Amygdalas is employed, and 
also as a food in very weak patients suffering from incessant 
and chronic vomiting, with two or three minims of acid hydro- 
cyanic dil. i i each dose. The oil is a mechanical as well as a 
chemical antidote for irritant poisons. It not only protects, to 
some extent, the lining membrane of the stomach and bowels 
from the irritation of the poison, and prevents both the solution 
and absorption of it, but also neutralizes it by forming a soap 
with it, if it happens to be an alkaline. It is also a good 
vehicle for liniments and other external applications (Mooden 
Sheriff). 
The kernels yield a light, yellow, bland oil. Niederstadt (1902) found the 
saponification value to be 179*84, and the iodine value, 60 6. 
The pericarp or shell yields a black, acrid and powerfully vesicating oil. 
Crossley and Le Sueur determined the following constants : Specific gravity, 
0'9594 ; saponification value, 451 ; iodine value, 294*2 ; Reichert-Meissl value, 
1*26. Though it possessed an abnormally high iodine value, practical 
experiments showed it to be a non-drying oil. 
328. — Buchanania. latifolia, Roxb., h.f.b.j., 
ii. 23, Roxb. 365. 
Sans. : — Piydla ; Chdra ; Chirika. 
Vern. .*— Piydr, piyal, piyala, chironji (the kernel), (H.), 
Chironji, peal (the fruit), cliirunji (the kernel), piyal, pfal, pear 
(the tree), (B. ) ; Chirauli, chiraoli (the fruit', chironji, (Pb.) ; 
Pial, pavala, muria, katbhilawa, (Garhwal) ; Piar, peira, paira, 
paila, pairwa, perrah, (Oudli) ; Tarum, (Kol) ; Pial, (Bliumij) ; 
