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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
as a remedy for gonorrhoea (Pharm Ind .) It has of late been 
prescribed at a substitute for copaiba in modern European 
medicine. ( Pha'macographia .) The author of Malthzan-vl- 
Adwiya describes the wood as cold and dry, cardiac, tonic, 
astringent, alexipharmic, anti aphrodisiac, a resolvent of inflam- 
matory swellings, &c. He recommends an emulsion in bilious 
fever on account of its cooling and protective influence over the 
heart, brain, stomach, etc. As an external application a paste 
made with rose-water and camphor, or with sarcocolla and 
white of egg, may be applied to relieve headache ov to any 
kind of inflammatory swelling or skin affection. (Dymock.) 
In cases of morbid thirst the powder of the wood is recom- 
mended to be taken in coeoanut water. A bolus of ground 
sandal checks hietnoptysis in its mild form, when taken twice a 
day for two or three days. 
The seeds contain an oil which is used in skin diseases. 
The seeds are also eaten. (B. D. Basu.) 
The wood yields an essential oil the amount of which, on the average, 
varies from 3 to 6 per cent. It has been observed that the wood growing on 
hard and rocky soil is richer in oil than those growing on comparatively 
fertile soil. (Paran Singh). 
The constants of the oil made by mixing the products obtained in the 
distillations are as follows : 
Specific gravity at 26°C ... ... ... '9785 
Optical rotation ... ... ... ... — 15*6° to — 16° 
Saponification number before acetylation .. G'72 
Saponification number after acetylation ... 21-13 
Santalol content ... ... ... ... 99'4 
1111 . Osyris arboreOt, Wall., h.f.b.i., v. 232 . 
Vern.: — Bakardharra, bakarja (Kumaon) ; Popli (Belgaum) ; 
Jhuri (Nepal). 
Habitat:— Outer Himalaya, Sub-Himalaya-Tract from the 
Sutlej to Bhutan. Central Provinces, West Coast from the 
Konkan south-ward to the top of the Ghats, ‘also , in the Hill 
ranges of South India, Shan Hills, Burma ; Ceylon. 
An evergreen shrub or tree, twiggy, as a rule glabrous. 
Bark dark, greyish-brown, rough, with shallow, vertical fissures. 
Wood red, hard, close-grained (Gamble). Branches numerous, 
stiff, virgafe. Brauchlets 3-sided, with prominent, sharp angles. 
