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126 No.

Telugu Name.

Botanical Name.

Uses.

94 Karepaku or karivepe.

Bergera Kœnigii...

Curry-leaf tree.—The root is laxative, and both bark and roots are stimulant, and are used externally as remedies in eruptions and in infusion to check vomiting in cholera. It is used for bites of poisonous animals, the tender leaves being boiled in milk, bruised and applied as a poultice to the parts affected. The fresh leaves are good, eaten raw in dysentery.

95 Karumunaga

Moringa

Moringa.—Leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, vessels or fruit, gum, wood, bark, and oil are all used in medicine by the people. This tree can be found in jungles.

96 Karuvaragogu

97 Kasagadda

98 Kattavari tiga

99 Kolamukki or kodapala.

Wrightia antidysenterica.

The bark is reputed to be a specific in dysentery and bowel complaints, and is the Conessi bark of the Materia Medica. It is astringent and febrifuge. The seeds are also used medicinally, being boiled in milk and given in hæmorrhoids and dysentery and in decoction in fever and gout. The root rubbed up and mixed with rice-water is given in sore-throat, a lotion of the same being applied to the neck. It is also used externally in rheumatic complaints and tooth-ache. A medicinal oil is procured from the seeds.

100 Kondamudam or Katamedam.

Baliospermum polyandra.

The seeds serve as a useful aperient medicine. The leaves are heated and applied to boils in order to reduce pain.

101 Kondagummadigaddu.

Batatas pentaphylla.

It is an excellent root; used as medicine.

102 Korendapala

103 Korinda

Acacia Intsia

The juice of the leaf is used in medicine for coughs, &c.

104 Kovinda

105 Koyyatotakura

Amaranthus tristis.

106 Kukkapala

Tylophora asthmatica vomitoria.

The roots partake in an eminent degree of the properties of Ipecacuana, and are a good remedy in dysentery. Given in a pretty large dose it answers as an emetic, in smaller often repeated doses as a cathartic, and in both ways effectually. The natives also employ it as an emetic by rubbing upon a stone 3 or 4 inches of the fresh root, mixing it with a little water for a dose.

107 Kukkatulasi

Ocimum canim

The whole plant is used in decoction for fever.

108 Kuppinta ...

Acalypha Indica ...

Indian Acalyphe.—The root bruised in hot water is employed as a cathartic, and the leaves as a laxative in decoction mixed with common salt; the latter are applied externally in scabies. A decoction of the plant