ON PAULLINIA. 
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tatibus, 1668, in 4to.j a work upon the abuse of tea, 
tobacco, &c. 
Paullinia Jlfricana is employed in Senegambia to arrest 
haemorrhage, by the application of the powdered bark to 
the wounded parts. The bark of the P. Jlsiatica is used at 
Bourbon as a febrifuge ; in India, the bark, the leaves, and the 
fruit, are employed as a decoction, prepared with fourgrammes 
of these substances, as a remedy for venereal complaints, 
rheumatism, gout, and cutaneous affections. 
The seeds of P. eupana are used by the Indians of Oronoko; 
they mix them with cassava and water, and leave them in con- 
tact. When the liquid mixture begins to putrefy, which is 
denoted by becoming of a yellow color, and acquiring a bitter 
taste, they draw off the clear portion and mix it with the water 
which serves for their common drink. 
P. Mexicana possesses, according to Hernandez, the pro- 
perties of sarsaparilla. 
The seeds of P. pinna t a are stupifying; they answer in 
Brazil and the Antilles to poison fish. The leaves of Paul- 
linia are, according to Pitron, vulnerary. The P. serjania dilso 
furnish seeds, which produce drunkenness. 
Finally, according to Martins, an extract is prepared from 
the P. sorbilis, known in Brazil under the name of guar ana , 
which is a medicine composed by the Indians of Para, and is 
made up by them in the form of lozenges, weighing 125 to 250 
grammes. 
The color of the guarana is brown, and in the mass is com- 
posed of lumps which are less colored interiorly than on 
the surface. This product is hard, very light, inodorous, and 
of a slightly bitter taste, without any sensible astringency. 
Gomez states, that the guarana is efficaciously used in Brazil 
for dysentery, and for diseases of the urinary passes produced 
by relaxation, four to six grammes being taken in a glass of 
water ; according to M. Batka, the guarana contains a vegeta- 
ble alkali called guaranine. 
M. Gavrelle gives the following details on the Paullinia 
which he has frequently used; he states that it is the product 
