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Indian MedioInal plants. 
and produces good effects in dysmenorrhoea. In inflammations 
around the uterus (pelvic cellulitis and peritonitis) it has been 
used with much benefit. 
“ S. anacardium is a powerful diaphoretic. It is very useful 
in scaly skin diseases. 
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“ It is believed by the Indians that if the drug betaken 
internally in small, but gradually increasing, doses in the winter, 
it makes one free from coughs and colds and senile degenera- 
tions. 
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“ Winter is the best season for the use of S. anacardium. It 
being a very heating remedy, its dose cannot be pushed to any 
length in summer. 
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“ I have been using this drug for more than six years, with- 
out seeing any bad effect other than erythematous rash. In the 
Campbell Hospital I have made many bed-ridden cases c f 
disseminated sclerosis walk about in the hospital compound. 
As an alterative, it is very useful in secondary and tertiary stages 
of syphilis. 
“ I have used it successfully in two cases of epidemic dropsy 
of the legs recently.” 
332 . Holigar.na Arnottiana, Hook /. h.f.b.i., ii.* 
36 . 
Vcrrt.: — Bibu ; hulgeri (Bom.); Holgeri (M.) ; Kagira, 
Kutugeri (Kan.) 
Habitat : —Western Peninsula, from the Concan southward 
on the Ghats. 
Leafy handsome trees with stout-branches, Leaves 6-9 by 
2-3in., coriaceous shining above reticulated or glaucous not 
beneath ; cuneate-obovate decurrent. Nerves 10-20 pair, 
strong nearly straight; petrole £-lin., rather slender. Panicle 
of compound racemes, axillary and terminal, shorter or longer 
