BALANITIS ROXBURGHII or B. Aegyptica or B. Indica.

Sunday, 02 July 2006

Home Cure for Anthelmintic and used in Worms in Children, Colic . Sans.----Gouritvac; Ingudi----vraksha. Hind, Ben and Dnk----Hingan; hingol. Guz.----Hinger. Egorca. Tam. Nanjunda. Mal.----Manchuta. Tel.----Garaehetti., Ringri. Habitat.----A scaggy shurb or a small tree ending in strong, sharp, ascending spines met with in the dry parts of India from Cawnpore to Sikkim, Behar, Guzrat and Deccan. Parts Used.----Seeds, bark, leaves and fruit. Constituents.----The bark yields a principle called Saponin. The pulp of the fruit contains organic acid, saponin, mucilage and sugar. Action & Uses.----The seeds are given in coughs; they are also useful in colic. The bark, unripe fruit and haves are pungent, bitter, purgative and anthelmintic and used in worms in children. The shell is filled with gunpowder and is used for fire-works. The oil expressed from the seeds is an application to burns and excoriations and also to freckles. Baliospermum Axillare or Montanum.----See Jatropha Montana. Balsamaria Inophyllum.----See Calophyllum Apet- alum-

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