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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
10-awned, awns longer than the Calyx, covered with stiff 
reflexed hairs. Flowers with the other species in the rainy and 
cool season. 
Generally distributed throughout Tropical and Sub-Tro- 
pical India. A Tropical weed. 
Parts used : — The root, seeds and leaves. 
Use: — A decoction of the root with ginger is given by 
Hindu physicians, in intermittent fever. It is also administered 
in fever accompanied by shivering fits and strong heat of body. 
The powder of the root-bark is given with milk and sugar for 
the relief of frequent micturition and leucorrhcea. In diseases 
of the nervous system the root is used alone, or in combination 
with other medicines. (Dutt.) 
The seeds are reckoned aphrodisiac, and are administered 
in gonorhoea. They are also given for colic and tenesmus 
(Stewart). In the Concan, the leaves, with other cooling leaves 
are applied in ophthalmia ; the root-juice is used to promote the 
healing of wounds, and the juice of the whole plant pounded 
with a little water is given in 1 seer doses for spermatorrhoea 
(Dymock.) 
155. Abutilon Indicum G. Don. h.f.b.i., 
i. 326. 
Syn. : — A. asiaticum, W . &. A. Sida Indica, Linn. Roxb. 
518. 
Sanskrit — Atibala, Kankatika. 
Vern. : — Kangbi, kungain, Tootree, Potaree (H.) ; simbul, 
Peelee-bootee (Pb. and Sind); Ati khirati-pala (Pb.) ; Potari, 
( B.) ; Miru baha (Santatl) ; Petari, madmi, Kanghai chakra- 
bhenda. (Bomb); Petari, Tupkadi, Tubocuty (Goa). Tatti, 
(Tam) ; Uram, Pettaka (Mai) ; Anona (Sinhalesi) ; Peruntutti, 
Vaddatuth (Tam.). The seeds, Balbij (Bomb). 
Habitat : — Throughout tropical India. Dry Country 
Ceylon. 
A semi-shrubby annual or perennial ; branches very finely 
downy ; Leaves f-1 in., broadly ovate, very cordate at base, 
