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Uses : — Sushruta describes the fruit as anthelmintic, altera- 
tive and tonic, and recommends their use along with liquorice 
root, for the purpose of strengthening the body and preventing 
the effects of age. Later writers regard it as carminative, 
stomachic, anthelmintic, and useful against intestinal worms, 
dyspepsia, and skin diseases. The berries enter into the com- 
position of several applications for ringworm and other skin 
diseases (Dutt). 
The Hakims consider it to be attenuant and a purgative of 
phlegmatic humors ; also a valuable anthelmintic, especially 
against tape-worms (Dymock). 
“ Vaivarang is common in the neighbourhood of Bombay, 
and is in high repute as an anthelmintic among the country 
people, especially in cases of tape-worm. The dose is a tea- 
spoonful of the powder, twice a day for a child, and a dessert- 
spoonful for an adult ; it can hardly be called a purgative ; the 
taste is rather pleasant, slightly astringent, and faintly aromatic 
The worm is expelled dead. A purgative should be given to 
prepare the patient for the drug. It is a common practice to 
put a few berries of the plant in the milk that is given to 
young children ; they are supposed to prevent flatulence 
(Dymock). 
Dr. Warden has separated an acid, named embelic acid, 
from the seeds. 
This drug would seem to richly deserve being experimented 
with in Europe. It is an undoubted anthelmintic, quite devoid 
of the nauseating property possessed by male fern (Watt). 
180 grains (a tola) of the powdered seeds administered at 
bed time in curdled milk, followed by a dose of castor oil on the 
following morning, has been found an efficacious remedy in 
tapeworm (Sakharam Arjun). 
718. E. robusta, Roxb., h.f.b.i., hi. 515 ; Roxb. 
197. 
Vern.: — Bayabirang (Hind.); Kalay bogoti (Nepal); Beb- 
rang'Oudh) ; Baya birang ; gaia (Dehra Dun), Kopadalli (Gond.) ; 
Bharangeli (Kurku) ; Ainti, ambat, barbatti (Bom.). 
Habitat : — E’rom the Himalaya, throughout India 
