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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
By the Maliomedan writers the juice is described'as caustic, 
a purge for phlegm, depilatory, and the most acrid of all milky 
juices. Medicinally, it is useful in ringworm of the scalp and 
to destroy piles ; mixed with honey, it may be applied to aphtlue 
of the meuth ; a piece of cotton dipped in it may be inserted 
into a hollow tooth to relieve the pain. Hakim Mir Abdul 
Hamid strongly recommends it in leprosy, hepatic and splenic 
enlargements, dropsy and worms. The milk is a favorite appli- 
cation to painful joints, swellings, &c., the fresh leaves also, 
slightly roasted, are used for the same purpose. Oil, in which 
the leaves have been boiled, is applied to paralysed parts, a 
powder of the dried leaves is dusted upon wounds to destroy 
excessive granulation and promote healthy action. 
In want of virility the following prescription is in vogue. 
Take 125 of the flowers, dry and powder, then mix with one 
tol& each of cloves nutmegs, mace and pellitory root, and make 
into pills of six massas each. One pill may -be taken daily 
dissolved in milk (Dymock). 
The root, bark, and juice of this plant are used in medicine 
for their emetic, diaphoretic, alterative, and purgative pro- 
perties. In the treatment of dysentery, the dried bark of the 
root is stated to be an excellent substitute for Ipecacuanha. 
The , bark, root, and dried milky sap may be used in small doses 
in certain cutaneous affections, such as leprosy and secondary 
syphilis ; the root-bark, in large doses, is an emetic It is 
administered to promote secretions, and is stated to be useful 
in enlargements of the abdominal viscera, intestinal worms, 
cough, ascites, anasarca, &c. The flowers are considered diges- 
tive, stomachic, tonic, useful in asthma, catarrh, and loss of 
appetite. The powder of the root in 3 to 5 grains promotes 
gastric secretion and acts as a mild stimulant and may be given 
with carminatives in dyspepsia. It is also given as a febrifuge. 
773 . C. procera, Br., h.f.b.i., iv. 18 . 
Sans. : — Alarka. 
Venn. : — Spulmei ; Spalmak ; Pashkand (Trans. Ind.) Ak 
