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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Uses : — Citron rind is hot, dry, and tonic ; the pulp cold and 
dry ; the seeds, leaves and flowers hot and dry ; the juice refri- 
gerant and astringent. According to Theophrastus, the fruit 
is an expellent of poisons. It also corrects foetid breath 
(Drury.) The distilled water of the fruit is used as a sedative 
(Year-Book of Pharmacy, 1874, p. 623). 
The rind is made into a marmalade and is an antiscorbutic. 
It is made into a preserve and is used for dysentery (Watt.! 
Var. II. C. Limonum. The Lemon. 
Vern .: — Jimbira; bara nimbi!; pahari nimbu ; pahari- 
Kaghzi (H. and Dec.); Kama nebu ; gora nebu ; bara nebu 
(B.); kimti ; gulgul ; khutta (Pb. ); Meta limbu ; motu-limbu ; 
Motu nimbu (Guz.) ; Thorla-limbu (Mar.); Periya-elumich- 
cham-pazham (Tam.); Pedda-niiAraa-pandu (Tel.); Dodda-nimbe- 
hanun (Kan.) 
Habitat : — Cultivated in India. 
Leaflet ovate, petiole margined or winged, fruit middle-sized, 
ovoid, yellow, nobbed or mamillate, rind thin, pulp abundant, 
very acid. 
Officinal Parts : — 1. The outer part of the rind of the ripe 
fruit (Limonis Cortex ) ; 2 The essential oil of the rind (Limo- 
nis Oleum) ; and 3. The expressed juice of the ripe fruit 
( Limonis Succus.) 
Properties of the Rind . — Stomachic and carminative. 
Therapeutic Uses . — Similar to those of Cortex Aurantii 
(ante); it is, however, . principally employed as a flavouring 
agent. 
Oil of Lemon ( Oleum Limonis). Obtained either by distil- 
lation or by simple expression of the finely grated rind. 
It is carminative in doses of from two to four drops, but is 
rarely employed in this character. It forms an ingredient in 
Spiritus Ammonim Aromaticus, and in Linimentum Potassii 
Iodidi cum Sapone. It has been used as a local application 
in some forms of ophthalmia, but with doubtful results. 
Lemon oil mixed with glycerine is applied to the eruption of 
acne (Watt.) 
