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used in the cure of intermittent fever. It constitutes an ingre- 
dient in the dasamul or ten roots. “ Used on the Malabar Coast 
in hypochondriasis, melancholia, and palpitation of the heart.” 
(Rheede.) 
(d) The leaves are made into poultice, used in the treat- 
ment of ophthalmia, and the fresh juice diluted is praised in 
catarrhs and feverishness. 
(e) The astringent rind of the ripe fruit is used in dyeing 
and tanning. It is also sometimes used medicinally. 
The expressed juice of the leaves is used in ophthalmia 
and other eye affections. In Malabar a decoction of the leaves 
is valued in asthmatic complaints. A hot poultice to the head 
is used in delirium of fevers. 
A water, distilled from the flowers, is said to be alexiphar- 
mic. 
A decoction of the root of ffigle Marmelos is given with 
sugar and fried rice for checking diarrhoea and gastric irrita- 
bility in infants. 
“ The fresh juice of the leaves is given, with the addition 
of black pepper, in anasarca, with costiveness and jaundice. In 
external inflammations, the juice of the leaves is given internally 
to remove the supposed derangement of humours” (U. K. 
Dutt). 
“ The Mahomedans consider the ripe fruit to be hot and 
dry, the very young fruit to be cold in the second degree, and 
the half-ripe fruit cold in the first and dry in the second degree ; 
its properties are described in the Makhzan-el-Adwiya as car- 
diacal, restorative, tonic and astringent ; it is directed to be 
combined with sugar for. administration to prevent its giving 
rise to piles. ® ® ® In the Concan the small unripe fruit is 
given with fennel seeds and ginger, in decoction, for piles. 
® ® ® Two tolas of the juice of the bark is given with a little 
cummin in milk as a remedy for poverty of the seminal fluid” 
(Dymock). 
“ The pulp of the unripe fruit is soaked in gingeliy oil for 
a week, and this oil, smeared over the body before bathing, to 
