12.3(5 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Uses : — The seeds are stimulant and carminative, and are 
useful in all the affections in which the common cardamoms arc 
indicated. They are also of great service in relieving tormina 
and tenesmus, and even frequency of motions, in some cases 
of dysentery, and, for this purpose, they must always be used 
in powder with butter. They are administered in simple 
powder and compound tincture, the latter being prepared in 
the same way as the Tincture Cardamom Co. of the Pharma- 
copoeia of India. Dose of the powder, from 20 to 40 grains, 
and of the tincture, from 3i to 3ii. (Moodeen Sheriff, Khan 
Bahadur, Madras.) 
1242. A. tsubulatum, Roxh., ii.f.b.i,, vi. 240. 
lloxb. 15. 
Satis. : — Brihat upa kunchika ; Ela. 
V ern. Bari-ildchf (II.) ; Bara-elach (B.) ; Elachi, elcho, 
moto-ilachi (Guj.); Mote-veldode (Mar.) ; Periyaelakkay, kattu- 
elak-kay (Tam.); Peddaelakdyalu, adaviyela-kaya (Tel.) ; Dodda- 
elakkf (Kan.); Perelam, periya-elattari (Mai.). 
Habitat : — Eastern Himalayas. 
Root-stock perennial, widely creeping. Leafy stem 3-4 ft. 
Leaves l-2ft. by 3-4in., green, glabrous on both surfaces, oblong, 
lanceolate. Spike globose, very dense, shortly peduncled, 
2-3in. ; bracts red-brown, outer ones lin., ovate, obtuse, with a 
horny cusp, inner shorter and obtuse. Calyx and corolla-tube 
lin. ; segments subulate, shorter than the tube. Lip obovate, 
cuneate, emarginate, yellowish-white, rather longer than the 
corolla-segments. Filaments very short, anther-crest entire, 
small, truncate. Capsule densely echinate, lin., globose, red- 
brown. 
Uses: — The seeds yield a medicinal oil. It is an agreeable, 
aromatic stimulant. 
“ It acts as a stomachic, and is said to allay irritability of 
the stomach produced either by cholera or some other affections. 
The decoction of cardamom is used as a gargle in affections of 
the teeth and gums. In combination with the seeds ^ of melons 
