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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
cent, or finely downy, slightly recurved, 6-10-seeded. Style sub- 
glabrous, penicillate at the tip. 
Parts used : — The root, root-bark and seeds. 
Uses : — Native works on Materia Medica describe this plant 
as deobstruent and diuretic, useful in cough and tightness of 
the chest, bilious febrile attacks, obstructions of the liver, spleen 
and kidneys. They recommend it as a purifier of the blood and 
for boils, pimples, &c. The author of the Makhzan mentions its 
use in combination with Cannabis Indica leaves (two parts of 
the former to one of the latter) as a remedy for bleeding piles, 
and with black pepper as a diuretic, especially useful in gonor- 
rhoea (Dymock). 
The root is bitter and given by Native practitioners in 
dyspepsia and chronic diarrhoea (O’Shaughnessy). 
The plant is used internally as a purifier of the blood, and 
is considered a cordial. An infusion of the seeds is given as a 
cooling medicine (Dr. Stewart). 
The plant appears to act as a tonic and laxative 
(Dymock). 
In Ceylon, it is employed as an anthelmintic for children 
(Th waites). 
In the Punjab, an infusion of the seeds is believed to be 
cooling (Stewart.) 
Fresh root-bark, ground and made into a pill, with a little 
black pepper, is frequently given in cases of obstinate colic, 
with marked success (Surgeon-Major Levinge of Madras, in 
Watt’s Dictionary.) 
362. T. villosa, Pers., h.f.b.i., ii. 113, Roxb. 587. 
Vern . : — Vaykkavalai (Tam.) 
Habitat : — From the Himalayas to Ceylon. 
Habit of T. purpurea, but stems lanceolate, firmer and more 
woody, clothed with short, adpressed white hairs. Leaves nearly 
sessile, 2 3in. long, stipules linear, ascending or reflexed. 
Leaflets 13-19, grey green, glabrescent above, persistently 
silky below, narrow, oblanceolate, often emarginate. Raceme 
half a foot or more 'ong. Lower flowers indistinct, fascicled, 
