has been used in several instances, with much success, in acute dysentery.
In South India, the dried plant is used as a demulcent. (Bidie.)
Powder of leaves given in dysentery 5-10 grs., with an equal part of powdered turmeric. Powdered seeds with honey and ginger given in diarrhœa (Vaidya Rugnathji) — J. Indraji.
The leaves are demulcent, tonic and diuretic, useful in some cases of chronic cystitis, gonorrhœa and dysuria. (Moodeen Sheriff.)
196. C. trilocularis, Linn., h.f.b.i, i. 397, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 582.
Sans. : — Kaunti.
Vern. :— Kadu Chunch (Bomb.) ; The seeds, Rája-jiren (Bomb.) ; Isbund (Sind) ; Tandassir (Kan.)
Habitat: — Sind, North-Western Provinces, from Umballa to the Punjab, Nilghiri Mountains.
An annual herb. Leaves 1-4 by 1 in. Elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, crenate-serrate, with or without basal sharp-pointed lobes ; petiole very short, pilose. Peduncles 1-3-flowered, very short, opposite the leaves. Flowers small, yellow. Capsule elongated, 3-angled ; scabrous or aculeate, straight or curved. 3-4-angled, 3-4-valved, valves scabrous, with transverse partitions, beak short, erect.
It would appear that the three varieties mentioned by Wight and Arnold (Prod. I. 72) are mere individual variations. They are : — (a) leaves ovate-oblong, capsule in pair, 3-angled ; (6) leaves ovate-oblong, capsules solitary, 4- angled ; (c) leaves oblong-lanceolate, capsules in pairs, 3-angled.
Uses : — The seeds are bitter and administered in doses of about 80 grains in fever and obstruction of the abdominal viscera (Dymock.)
The plant, macerated for a few hours in water, yields a mucilage, prescribed as a demulcent ; seeds as a specific in rheumatism (Murray.)
