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Rh used in the cure of intermittent fever. It constitutes an ingredient in the dasamul or ten roots. "Used on the Malabar Coast in hypochondriasis, melancholia, and palpitation of the heart." (Rheede.)

(d) The leaves are made into poultice, used in the treatment of ophthalmia, and the fresh juice diluted is praised in catarrhs and feverishness.

(e) The astringent rind of the ripe fruit is used in dyeing and tanning. It is also sometimes used medicinally,

The expressed juice of the leaves is used in ophthalmia and other eye affections. In Malabar a decoction of the leaves is valued in asthmatic complaints. A hot poultice to the head is used in delirium of fevers.

A water, distilled from the flowers, is said to be alexipharmic.

A decoction of the root of Ægle Marmelos is given with sugar and fried rice for checking diarrhœa and gastric irritability in infants.

" The fresh juice of the leaves is given, with the addition of black pepper, in anasarca, with, costiveness and jaundice. In external inflammations, the juice of the leaves is given internally to remove the supposed derangement of humours" (U. K. Dutt).

" The Mahomedans consider the ripe fruit to be hot and dry, the very young fruit to be cold in the second degree, and the half-ripe fruit cold in the first and dry in the second degree ; its properties are described in the Makhzan-el-Adwiya as cardiacal, restorative, tonic and astringent ; it is directed to be combined with sugar for administration to prevent its giving rise to piles. * ® * In the Concan the small unripe fruit is given with fennel seeds and ginger, in decoction, for piles. * * * Two tolas of the juice of the bark is given with a little cummin in milk as a remedy for poverty of the seminal fluid" (Dymock).

" The pulp of the unripe fruit is soaked in gingelly oil for a week, and this oil, smeared over the body before bathing, to