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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
complaints attended with anomalous symptoms. By the Hindu 
doctors of the Coromandel coast, it is given in quantity of 
half-a-teacupful of the decoction twice daily. (Ainslie.) The 
root forms the basis of an external application in leprosy while 
the leaves dried, reduced to powder, and mixed with ginger 
and kaiphul form an “errhine” which is prescribed in cases of 
headache. (Taylor.) In the Konkan, the root is used to aid 
the extraction of guinea-worm, a paste made from them being 
applied to the part. A paste with tulsi juice is also employed 
as a cure for itchy skin eruptions. (Dymoek.) In Chutia 
Nagpur, the root is given when the extremities are cold 
during fever ; also for pains in the legs and arms. (Campbell.) 
The fruit rubbed over the head with a little water is useful 
in cases of baldness. (Dr. Thornton in Watt’s Dictionary.) 
Var. : — Cannabina. 
Vern. ; — Sirru-kanchari vayu (Tam.). 
An erect or climbing shrub 4-5ft. high, not twining, more 
or less hispid and with stinging hairs. Stems stout, woody. 
Leaves palmately 3-partite, up to 3fin. long ; lobes toothed or 
pinnatifid, the mid-lobe much longer than the lateral ones. 
Male flowers and calyx of female flowers as in T involucrata. 
Styles 3, slightly spreading, not revolute. Capsules fin across, 
3-lobed, hirsute ; lobes globose. Seeds globose, smooth, gin. 
in diam. (Duthie). 
Uses ■ — The root is considered diaphoretic and alterative, 
and is prescribed in decoction, together with other articles of 
like virtues to correct the habit ; an infusion of it is also given 
as a drink in ardent fever in the quantity of half a tea-cupful 
twice daily. (Ainslie). 
1161. Sapiurn indicum, Wild., h.f.b.I., v. 471 
Roxb. 691. 
Syn. ■ — Exccecaria indica, Muell. 
Vern. : — Hurud ; Batul(B.); Hurna (Bomb.). 
Habitat Bay of Bengal, from*the Sunderbans to Tenas- 
serim. S. Konkan. (Bay plant is growing in the Konkans, but 
