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૧૯૮ COPY OF Dr. DYMOCK'S REPORT. Cleorodendron inerme, Gartn, Rheede Hort. Mal. V, t, 49. Rumph. Amb. V, 46. Jacq.Col. t. 4 f. 1.
Vernacular.-Sangkupi, (Hind) Isamdhåri, (Dukh).-Shengan-kupi (Tam.) Pisangi. (Tel.) Ban-joi, (Beng) Rânjai. Koivel.—(Mar.) Kundli (Sanscrit.) Habitat-India, Ceylon, Amboyna; near the sea shore.
History, Uses fc. The medicinal properties of this shrub are very widely known in the East. It is the Gambir laut of Java, the Wal-bu-rænda of Ceylon and the Sun-fu-mun of Cochin-China. Anslie says-the juice of the root and leaves is considered alterative in scrofulous & venereal affections, the-dose being a table-spoonful with or without a little castor oil. Rheede speaks of the use of the dried leaves for the same purpose, and of a poultice of the leaves to dissolve buboes; he also says that a bath prepared with them is used in mania, whilst the root boiled in oil affords a liniment useful in rheumatism.
O inerme is the Jasminum litoreum and Phar. macum litorcum of Rum phius (Lib. VII Cap. 47). He says-The Amboyna name is Wale-puti-lohaha which means “ White strand cord.” The Malays & the Macassars administer the barries or the root to people poisoned by eating unwholesome fish; the leaves smeared with oil are heated over the fire and applied to recent wounds, they are also one of the leaves
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