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“ . . . I have generally used the medicine during the 
period of the menses, commencing from two days before its 
appearance (when the pain precedes the flow) three days 
during the flow and two days after its cessation. In case of 
no premonitory pains, the medicine is given from the first day 
of the flow for seven days successively with equally good 
results. 
‘ A single administration during the menses generally cures 
the disease and brings on conception in young married 
women 
“ Attempts have been made to administer the drug in the 
more acceptable forms of tincture, pill or powder, but none 
prove so efficacious as the fresh viscid sap in substance, in which 
form I have used it with wonderful results. 
“Menstrual disorders, and notably the varieties of dysme- 
norrhcea, are very prevalent in this country, and it seems nature 
has supplied it with a simple efficacious medicine by endowing 
the roots of an indigenous plant with such singular virtues. 
It is noteworthy that the roots branch out in numerous tender 
offshoots, superficially under the ground, and can be easily taken 
out in abundance.” 
Dr. J. H. Thornton considers that it is useful in the 
congestive and neuralgic varieties of dysmenorrhoea, and that 
it regulates the menstrual flow and acts as an uterine tonic. It 
should be given during menstruation, with black pepper. The 
dose is said to be half a drachm of the fresh viscid juice of the 
root-bark (Am. Journ. Med. Sci., p. 276, 1873). 
The infusion of fresh leaves and stems in cold-water is de- 
mulcent, and very efficacious in gonorrhoea (Surgeon Meadows, 
in Watt’s Dictionary.) 
187. Guazuma tomentosa, Kunth, h.f.b.i., 
I. 375. 
Vern. : — Nipal tunth (Beng.) Of the bark : — Bandoq-ke- 
jhar-ki chhal (Dec.) ; Tain-puchli-pattai (Tam.) ; Udrik-patta 
(Tel.) ; Rudrakshi (Kan.). 
