Indian Medicinal Plants

The author of the Makhzan mentions the use of the flowers applied in the form of plaster to the loins and pubes as an aphrodisiac (Dymock \. - The scented oil is considered cooling. [...] In ulcerations or eruptions in the mucous membrane of the mouth the leaves are recommended to be chewed. [...] In the United Provinces the flowers and their essence are used as an application in skin diseases headache and weak eyes ; the leaves are used in toothache (Atkinson). [...] According to the author of the Makhzan six or seven of the young leaveare rubbed up with water and a little fresh ginger and administered in obstnate fevers of the intermittent type at the same time a purely vegetable diet is enforced. [...] The fruits eaten singly are said to cause tingling and small ulcers of the mouth hence people prefer to eat them by handfuls seeds and all and the latter are apt to accumulate in masses in the sigmoid flexure of the intestines and lead to disagreeable results.