1288 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Uses : — The root of this plant is used medicinally as a re- 
frigerant, demulcent, diuretic, aphrodisiac, antispasmodic, alter- 
ative, anti-diarrhoeatic and anti-dysenteric. It is used chiefly as 
a demulcent in veterinary medicine. Baden-Powell says that it 
prevents confluence of small-pox. Tho root is used in impotence 
in the form of a preserve. Tuberous roots pickled ; shoots eaten 
as vegetable. (Kanjilal). 
Client, comp. — The powdered roots were separated into— 
Water extract 
Crude fibre 
Moisture 
Ash 
5248 
88-85 
0-48 
4-46 
10000 
The amount ot saccharine matter, estimated as glucose, in the water 
extract was 7'14 per cent. Some ot this extract was boiled and filtered and 
evaporated down to a soft consistence and allowed to remain for three months 
under a bell jar. At the end of that time no crystalline substances had 
formed, indicating the probable absence of crystalline sugars, mannite, and 
atparagin. 
1275. A. adscendens, Roxb., h.f.b.i., vi., 317 ; 
Roxb. 291. 
Vern. Suf6d musli, satavar (H.) ; Khairuwa (N.-W. P.) ; 
Sapheta musali, dholi musali (Bomb.); Dholi musali, saph^d- 
musli, ujli-musli (Guj.) ; Safeda-musali (Mar.). 
Rqhitat : — The Western Himalaya, in the Punjab, from Murree 
eastward to Kumaon, the Dieu and Sal forests. 
A sub-erect shrub, with stout terete stem and grooved, rough 
angled, ascending branchlets ; spines *-£in. straight. Cladodes 
6-20-nate, §-fin., slender, filiform, soft, terete, suberect or curved. 
Racemes many-fid, l-3in. long, copious, often bearing cladodes 
at tip of branches of racemes. Pedicels iViin., jointed above 
or below the middle. Flowers white, yin. diam. Bracts minute. 
Perianth segments spreading; anthers medium-sized. Ovules 
many in each cell. Berries i-yin. diam., 1-seeded. 
Uses : — The tuberous roots used as demulcent and tonic and 
as a substitute for Salep Tonic, demulcent. Said to be useful in 
diarrhoea, dysentery and general debility. 
