1122 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Uses: — It is given with milk to children in colic (Stewartl. 
It possesses properties similar to those of E. pilulifera and E. 
tbymifolia (S. Arjun). Dr. W. Zollickoffer (in Am. Journ. of 
Med. Soc. XI. 22) recommends an infusion of the dried leaves 
as a remedy in dysentery, diarrhoea, menorrhagia, and leucor- 
rhoea, and finds that it affects the system as an astringent and 
feeble narcotic. 
1113. E. pilulifera, Linn., H.F.B.I., V. 250. 
Syn. :--E. hirta, Linn. Roxb. 394. 
Vern. : — Buru keru (B.) ; Dudhi (H.) ; Pusi-toa (Santal); 
Gordon (C. P.) ; Nayeti (Bomb.) ; Dudhi or mothidudhi (Mar.) ; 
Dudheli (Guz.) ; Amumpatchay-arissi (Tam.); Bidarie, nana- 
beeam, nanabala (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Throughout the hotter parts of India from the 
Punjab eastwards and southwards to Ceylon and Singapore. 
An annual herb, erect or ascending, hispid with copious, 
crisped hairs. Stem and branches l-2ft. Leaves very short, 
opposite, elliptic-oblong, obovate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
toothed or serrulate, i-l^in. long; base usually narrow and 
obliquely cordate ; nerves distinct. Stipules minute, linear ; 
petiole distinct, very short. Involucres numerous, in axillary 
and terminal dense-fid, sessile or peduncled cymes, minute, 
about soin., pubescent ; limb or glands very narrow or 
obsolete ; glands small, globose. Capsule jfein. diara., appres- 
sedly or patently hairy. Seeds pale-brown, acutely-angled, 
transversely, shallowly rugulose, ovoid. 
Uses. — Reported to have been successfully used in asthma 
and chronic bronchial affections. It is used in the forms of 
decr>o>. : 3J or concentrated essence (Christy’s New Plants and 
Drugs No. V., p. 64, 1882 ; No. VI., p. 93, 1882 ; No. VII., p. 47, 
1884 ; No. VIIL, p. 55, 1885 ; No. IX., p. 35, 1886). “ Dr. Daruty 
informs me that the juice of both the Euphorbia pilulifera and E. 
hypericifolia is given with benefit in dysentery and colic, and 
that the milk is applied to destroy warts” (Christy, N. C. P., 
No. IX., p. 36). 
The plant is chiefly used in the affections of childhood, in 
worms, bowel complaints and cough. Sometimes prescribed 
