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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
The dried flower-heads are officinal, and are said to be 
stimulant, tonic and carminative. They are used in constitu- 
tional debility, hysteria, dyspepsia and intermittent fevers. 
The warm and strong infusion of the flowers is emetic, while a 
weak infusion acts as a tonic and febrifuge. In flatulence and 
colic, Chamomile oil is the most effectual of all remedies. The 
Indian Pharmacopoeia says, the baluna ka phul forms a perfect 
substitute for the European Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis). 
Analysis by Frederick B. Power and Henry Browning, Jr. of Wellcome 
Chem. Pes. Labs, published in the Journal Chem. Soc. for 1914. 
Tests for alkaloids were almost negative. 
It contains a blue essential oil, giving color reaction for furfural, and 
depositing, on keeping, probably umbelliferone Me ether. It also contains 
a resin. 
660. Cotula anthemoides, Linn, h.f.b.i., hi. 
316. 
Vern. : — Babuna (Pb. and H.); Tulobe (Cashmere). 
Habitat : — Gangetic Plain, from Rajmahal and Sikkim west- 
wards to the Punjab. 
An annual hairy, or glabrate, erect or diffuse, weak weed. 
Branches 3-9in., spreading. Leaves 2-pinnatifid or 2 pinnati- 
sect, segments decurrent-lobed, lobes triangular lanceolate, i-£ 
in. Petiole \ amplexicaul. Peduncles filiform, naked. Heads 
|-Jin. diam., terminal, solitary. Flowers female, many. Invo- 
lucre bracts, with ecarious margins. Receptacle nearly flat, 
tubercleu. Achenes ovate, with thick narrow wings. Achenes 
of the ray broad, flat. 
Use : — It furnishes part of the officinal babuna, which is 
heated wdth oil and applied externally in rheumatism, &c. 
(Stewart.) The infusion is used as an eye, wash in most diseases 
of the eye. 
661. Cent'rpeda orbicularis, Lour, h.b.f.j., hi. 
317. 
Syn. : — Myriogyne minuta, Lees., Arteinesia sternutatoria, 
Roxb. 
Vern. : — Nakk-chhikni ; Nag-downa ; Pachittie (H B. and. 
