N. 0. UMBELLIEEB/E. 619 
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In Bombay, it is a popular remedy for the slight dysenteric 
derangements of the bowels to which children are subject; 3 to 
4' leaves are given with cumin and sugar, and the pounded 
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leaves are applied to the navel. In the Goncan, one or two 
leaves arg given every morning to cure stuttering ; and the 
juice is applied (generally as a lep with Cadamba bark, ghi, 
and black cumin) to skin eruptions supposed to arise from heat 
of blood-(Dymock). 
^ In Java, according to Horsfield, the leaves are considered 
diuretic ; and on the Malabar Coast, the plant is one of the 
remedies for leprosy. 
Dr. A. Hunter, after trying it in the Madras Leper Hospital, 
came to the conclusion that it had no claim to consideration as 
a specific in leprosy, but found it most useful in ameliorating 
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the symptoms aod improving the general health. 
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The leaves are officinal in the Indian Pharmacopoeia and 
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described as alterative, tonic and local stimulant, more espe- 
daily useful in syphilitic skin diseases, both externally and 
internally. Recent reports from Europe (1885) confirm this 
statement, and there has been some enquiry for the drug 
in Bombay which has led to its cultivation on a small scale 
(Dymoclc). 
In some parts of India, the people are in the habit of taking 
powder of the dried leaves with milk for improving their memory 
and as an alterative tonic. 

567. Eryngium cceruleum, Bieb. ii.f.b.i., n. 669. 
Arab. — Shakakul-misri (Arab.) 
Pevs : — Gurs-dusti (Pers.) 
Vern : — Dhudhali (H.) ; Poli ; Mittua ; Kandfi ; Pahari g&jar ; 
Nurftlam (Pb.) 
Habitat : Kashmir. 
A spinescent, glabrous, erect, perennial herb. Stem 2-3ft , 
undivided below, corymbose and often bluish Ibove. Radical 
leaves 5 by lfin., petiole 2-6in.; lower cauline often similar, 
smaller, with shorter petioles, but more often subsessile, elliptic 
acute, undivided, serrae or subspinulose. Upper cauline sessile 
