Description
Sans.-Kaphala; Kakanashika. Eng.-Indian berry ; Punj.-Heuber; Netramala. Tel.-Kakmari. Mab.-Karwi. Tam.-Kakakulli; Penkottai. Guj.-Kakphal.
Uses.-Juice of the fresb fruit is a good application to scabies and for ulcers. Picrotoxin is a poison and is rarely given it is however given in the smallest doses in epilepsy, especially in the nocturnal variety, in paralysis affecting the muscles of the pharynx, of the legs sphinctor vesicase,and sphinctor ani, in chorea and in sick headache. In applying tbis ointment or paste made of pounded seeds,which is a powerful germicide care should be taken to avoid all abraded or ulcerated surface an account of the danger of absorption of the poisonous principle of the seeds etc.
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