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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Of the two pair of spines, one pair is long and one short. The 
cocci are very variable. Stigmatic lobes larger than the dia- 
meter of the styles. 
Parts used : — The entire plant, and especially the fruit and 
leaves. 
Uses : — In Hindoo Medicine, the fruits are regarded as 
cooling, diuretic, tonic and aphrodisiac, and are used in painful 
micturition, calculous affections, urinary disorders and im- 
potence. They form one of the ten ingredients which constitute 
the Dashamtila of the Hindoo physicians (Dutt). 
They are considered astringent, and Bellew states that 
they are taken by women to ensure fecundity, and an infusion 
of the stems taken for gonorrhoea (Stewart). 
In the Gujrat district of the Punjab, it is used in diseases 
of the kidneys, suppression of urine, also in cough and diseases 
of the heart (Ibbetson,. 
In South of Europe, it is used as an aperient and diuretic. 
(O’Shaughnessy). 
In Southern India, t he fruit is highly valued as a diuretic. 
In many cases where this has been tried, the result was quite 
perceptible in the increase of the urinary secretion. There is 
another method of administration, in which * the fruit and the 
root boiled with rice to form a medicated water, which is 
taken in largo quantities (Ph. Ind.) 
-According to Moodeen Sheriff, the fruit and leaves are 
demulcent, diuretic and useful in cases of strangury, gleet 
and chronic cystitis. He.reco’mmends a decoction and the fresh 
juice of the leaves. 
An infusion made from the fruit has been found very 
useful as a diuretic in gout, kidney disease and gravel ; 'also 
used largely in the Panjab as an aphrodisiac (F. F. Perry, in 
Watts’ Dictionary). 
205. T. alatus, Delile. h.f.b.i , i. 423. 
Vern. : — Nindo-trikund, gokhuri-kalan (H. ) ; Lotak, bakh- 
ra, hasak (Pb.) ; Latak (Sind). 
Habitat : — Sindh and Punjab, at Multan. 
