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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Uses : — The fruit pounded and well mixed with warm cocoa- 
nut oil, forms a valuable application to sores under the ears and 
nostrils CAinslie.) 
The fruit is reckoned poisonous and, I am told, it is mixed 
with rice and employed to destroy crows (Roxburgh). 
The root is used as a cattle medicine in inflammation of the 
lungs (Wight). 
In Bombay, the fruit is smoked as a remedy for Asthma. 
The root, with an equal portion of Colocynth root, is rubbed 
into a paste and applied to carbuncles ; combined with equal 
portions of the three myrobalans and turmeric, it affords an 
infusion which is flavored with honey and given in gonorrhoea 
(Dymock). 
The juice of the fruit or the root-barks, boiled with gingelly 
oil, is used with good effect as a bath oil, for the relief of long- 
standing or recurrent attacks of headache (Surgeon-Major 
Thompson in Watt’s Dictionary). 
525 . T. cordata, Roxb, h.f.b.i., ii. 608 : Roxb, 
695 . 
Vern. : — Bhooe-koomra ; Bhumi-kfimara ; Bhi-kbflmba ; 
Patol (B.). 
Habitat From the base of the Eastern Himalaya in Sikkim 
and Assam to Pegu. Frequent in the Khasia Terai and Cachar. 
An extensive climber, with large tuberous roots and stout 
branching stems ; tendrills usually very stout, 3-fid. Leaves 
6-8 in., entire or obscurely angular, broadly ovate-cordate, 
acute or shortly acuminate, dentate-serrate, dark-green above, 
and with short scattered hairs on both surfaces ; petiole 2-4 in., 
stout. Male racemes few-flowered ; bracts large, elongate, 
sheathing at the base, obovate, entire, pubescent. Calyx-tube 
l|in., lobes acuminate, denticulate. Fruit as in T. palmata. 
(Dutliie). 
Parts used : — The root and flowers. 
Use : — The large tuberous roots are used as a valuable tonic 
and as a substitute for Calumba (Roxburug). In Patna, the 
