1294 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLAINTS. 
(C-p. 133"). A small quantity of a substance was isolated from the fraotions 
boiling above 100 1 ' (10 mm.), and appears to be identical with one of the com- 
pounds obtained from oil of asafcetida. The residue boiling above 126° 
(10 mm.) contains a higher sulphide, and gives the compound C 6 H 12 Sj on re- 
duction with zinc-dust. Neither allyle sulphide, nor a sesquinterpene were 
present — J. Ch. S. LXIV. pt. I (1893) p. 104. 
The outer skins of the bulb of the onion contain a yellow colouring 
matter (Quercetin) of which the formula is C I4 H I0 O 7 . 
1282. A. sativum, Linn., h.f.b.i., vi., 337; Roxb. 
287. 
Sana. : — Lasuna ; Mahaushada. 
Vern . : — Lassun (H.) ; Rasun (B.) ; Naharu (Ass.); Lasun 
(Mar.) ; Shunam (Dec.) ; Vallai-pundu (Tam.) ; Velluli-talla- 
gadda (Tel.) ; Belluli (Kan.) ; Gokpas (Bbote). The best kind 
sold in Bombay is called “ Goghari Lusoon. (K. R. K.) 
Habitat Cultivated much in the U. P., especially in 
Garhwal, and Kumaon. Also in the Pan jab and Kashmir. 
In the Western Peninsula. 
A perennial herb. The true stem, which is much reduced, 
gives off roots from the base, and supports, as cauline appendages, 
the overlapping scales (old leaf bases;, which were thickened 
below and bear, in their axils, small bulbs or cloves. These 
closely imbricating scales, together with the cloves and the 
reduced stem, form the bulb. The leaves are flat. The slender 
flowering stem, or scape, emerges from the centre of the bulb, 
and bears a few flowers in umbels, the majority being replaced 
by dimunitive bulbs or bulbils. (Duthie.) Spathes long-beaked. 
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. Stamens 3-pointed. (Roxb.) Inner 
filaments 2-toothed. 
Uses : — Garlic is considered hot and aperient; given in 
fevers, coughs, piles, leprosy, being regarded as carminative, 
diuretic, ^stomachic, alterative, emenagogue and tonic, and 
much used in nervous affections. Externally, the juice is 
applied to the ears for deafness and pain. The oil extracted 
from the seed is also medicinal. The cloves of the bulb are 
given in confection for rheumatism. The properties of garlic 
depend upon a volatile oil which may readily be obtained by 
