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It is reported to have been used very successfully by Dr. 
Mascarel in cases of dropsy (La France Medicale, Oct. 8, 1889). 
He reduces the dried plant— stems, leaves and flowers — to a 
eoarse powder, and gives it in doses of one tablespoonful, 
beaten with an entire egg (yolk and white). He gives but one 
dose on the first day ; but on eacli of the following days he adds 
a tablespoonful, until seven or eight doses are being taken 
during the twentyfour hours. The diuresis is said to continue 
until oedema permanently disappears. 
Very little is known about the chemistry of this genus. Volatile oils nave 
been obtained from 4 American Species but with the exception of Solidago 
canadensis, L, nothing is known about their chemistry. Chemical Abstracts, 
Feb. 20 p. 521. 
633. Grangea niaderaspatana, Poir., h.f.b.i., 
hi. 247. 
Syn. — Artemisia niaderaspatana, Roxb. 600. 
Vern. — Mustard (Hind.) ; Namuti (Beng.) ; Afsanteen (Arab); 
Baranjasif kowlii (Pers.) ; Mashi pattiri (Tam.); Douana (Kan.) ; 
Nelampala (Mai.); Savi (Tel.) 
Habitat. — Throughout India, from the Punjab eastwards 
and southwards. 
Annual, stems numerous, spreading from centre, prostrate, 
6-12in., hairy branched, buds white woolly. Leaves numerous, 
l|- 25 in., sessile, deeply, sinnuately pinnatifid, with 2-4 pair of 
opposite or sub-opposite lobes, smaller towards the base, termi- 
nal part larger, all coarsely serrate, dentate, pubescent. Heads 
yellow, f-fin., depressed, globose, on short pedicels, usually in 
pair on leaf opposed peduncle ; involucre-bracts oval, obtuse, 
thick and rigid, pubescent. Corolla-tube campanulate above, 
persistent, lobes acute ; pappus hairs connate into a cylindric 
fimbriate tube. Achenes glandular, ^in., long including the. 
pappus tube. 
Uses. — The leaves are regarded as a valuable stomachic and 
to possess deobstruen't and antispasmodic properties, and are 
prescribed in infusion and electuary in cases of obstructed 
menses and hysteria. They are also sometimes U3ed in pre- 
