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INblAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
into a very short petiole, cuneate or oblanceolate, usually acute 
or mucronate. Involucres yellowish, in small, compact, shortly 
pedunculate, dichotomous cymes from the sinus between the 
nodes ; lobes large, erect, roundish, cordate, fimbriate. Styles 
connate, high up, undivided ; stigmas capitate. Capsule about 
£in. broad, deeply 3-lobed. Cocci compressed, glabrous. 
Uses -.—The root enjoys repute as a remedy in snake bites, 
but there is no reliable evidence of its utility in these cases. 
The expressed juice of the leaves is reported to prove very 
effectual in relieving the paroxysms of spasmodic asthma. 
(Ph. Ind.) 
In Hindu medicine, the milky juice is considered purgative 
and rubefacient. As a purgative it is generally used in com- 
bination with other medicines which are steeped in it. Chebulic 
myrobalan, long pepper, tivrit root, etc., are thus treated and 
administered as drastic purgatives in ascites, anasarca and 
tympanites. It enters into the composition of several compound 
prescriptions of a drastic character (Dutt). “ The juice is 
employed in ear-ache and, mixed with soot, in ophthalmia as an 
anjan" (T. N. Ghose, in Watt’s Die.). 
Hemaglutinins (rabbit blood) were found in 26 of 47 Types of Euphorbia 
examined. The agglutinating action on different bloods (pigeon, rabbit, 
guinea pig, rat, sheep, goat) differed. The active substance of Euphorbia 
neriifolia is fairly resistant to boiling. When hemaglutinins are contained 
in the vegetative parts of the plant they can be absent from the seeds 
and vice versa. (Ch. Abs. 10th Jan. 1913 p. 104.) 
1118. E. nivulia, Lam. y h.f.b.i., v. 255. 
Syn. : — E. neriifolia, Roxb. 392. 
Vern. : — Thohar (H,); Shij v B.) ; Newran (Mar.) ; Ellaculli 
(Mai.) , Elakullie (Tam.) ; Akoo-jemoodoo (Tel.) 
Habitat: — N.-W. Himalaya; on dry rocky hills. Guzerat, 
the Deccan Peninsula and Sindh. 
A large shrub or tree, 20-25ft. Branches in whorls of four, 
fleshy, nearly cylindric, with vertically or spirally arranged 
tubercles, each supporting a pair of stipular prickles. Leafless 
in cold and dry season. Leaves alternate, 6 I2in. long, ovate- 
oblong or linear ; tip rounded ; midrib much elevated beneath ; 
