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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
membranous inflated, gall and female flower intermixed ; 
perianth toothed ; gall ovary, ovoid, rough. Achene granulate ; 
stigma clavate. (J. D. Hooker ) 
Uses : — The leaves, bark and fruit are employed in native 
medicine. The bark is given as an astringent and as a wash 
for wounds. It is also employed to remove the poison from 
wounds made by a tiger or cat. The root is useful in dysentery, 
and a fluid obtained from it by incision is administered as a 
powerful tonic. The leaves reduced to powder and mixed with 
honey are given in bilious affections. The small blister-like 
galls common on the leaves, soaked in milk and mixed with 
honey are given to prevent pitting in small-pox. (Atkinson.) 
The figs are considered astringent, stomachic and carminative, 
and are given in menorrhagia and limmoptysis. The milky juice 
is administered in piles and diarrhoea, and in combination 
with sesamum oil in cancer. The fresh juice of the ripd fruit 
is used as an adjunct to a metallic preparation which is 
given in diabetes and other urinary diseases. In Bombay, 
the sap is a popular remedy, which is locally applied to mumps 
and other inflammatory glandular enlargements, and is given 
in doses of four tolis with cumin and sugar for gonorrhoea. 
(Dymock.) The bark is given to cattle when suffering from 
rinder-pest. It is ground with onions, cumin, and cocoanut 
spathes and mixed with vinegar. (Coimbatore Dist. Man.) 
The sap of the root is used in diabetes. (T. R. Moodeliar.) 
An infusion of the bark is much employed by the Tamil- 
speaking people for menorrhagia. (Dr. Thomas in Watt’s Die.) 
diem, on analysis it icas found to contain : 
Water ... 
... ... 13-6 
Albuminoids* ... 
... 7-4 
Oil... 
... 5-0 
Carbohydrates! ... 
... 490 
Fibre ... 
... 179 
Ash): ... 
... 6 5 
TSe alcoholic extract contains a straco of soluble tannin which gives a 
light-green precipitate with ferric chloride.— (Agricul. Ledger, 1904— No. 4. 
* Containing nitrogen ... ... ... ... 119 per cent. 
/ Ditto colouring matter ... ... ... 8-5 
. /Ditto silica .... ... ... ... 023 
t \ Ditto phosphoric acid ... ... ... 0-91 
