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of the stomach, dyspepsia, vomiting, pain in the liver or womb, 
induration of the uterus, amenorrhcea, calculi, and nocturnal 
spermatic discharges. 
Ainslie (ii., 170) says: “Kull-pashie is the Tamool name 
given to a dried pale-coloured rock moss, which the Yytians 
[Vaidyas] suppose to possess a peculiar cooling quality, and 
prepare with it a liniment for the head.” (Pharmacogr. Ind. 
III. 627-628). 
“ Some years since it attracted considerable attertion as a diuretic, tor 
which purpose it was first boiled in water, then beaten into a pulp or bruised 
in a mortar, and placed as a poultice over the renal and lumbar regions. 
Its efficacy in dropsical affections was attested by Dr. Stevenson, of H. M. 
13th Dragoons (Calcutta Med. Phys. Trans., vol. v. p. 430), Dr. W. H. Radford 
(Mad. Med. Journ. 1839, vol. i. p. 18), and others (Ibid. 1843, vol. v. p. 889). 
According to these authorities the application of the lichen poultice was 
followed by marked diuresis; and dropsical cases which had resisted ordi- 
nary means, improved or recovered under its use. Dr. S. Rogers (Ibid. vol. i. 
p. 18), however, states that he tried it extensively at the Madras Native 
Infirmary, and that in every instance he failed to observe that it produced 
the least effect upon the kidnoys. To test its alleged efficacy, it should be 
tried in a series of cases simultaneously with another series treated with 
an ordinary linseed or rice poultice ; and the probability is that the continu- 
ous application of warmth and moisture by their means respectively would 
be fonnd nearly equal.” (Pharm. of India p. 260.) 
