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Uses : — It is given with milk to children in colic (Stewart). It possesses properties similar to those of E. pilulifera and E. thymifolia iS. Arjun). Dr. W. Zollickoffer (in Am. Journ. of
Med, Soc. XL 22) recommends an infusion of the dried leaves as a remedy in dysentery, diarrhœa, menorrhagia, and leucorrhœa, and finds that it affects the system as an astringent and feeble narcotic.
1113. E. pilulifera, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 250.
Syn. :— E. hirta, Linn. Roxb. 394.
Vern. :— Buru keru (B.) ; Dudhi (H); Pusi-toa (Santal) ; Gordon (C. P.) ; Nayeti (Bomb.) ; Dudhi or mothidudhi (Mar.) ; Dudheli (Guz.) ; Amumpatchay-arissi (Tam.) ; Bidarie, nânâbeeam, nanabâla (Tel.).
Habitat :— Throughout the hotter parts of India from the Punjab eastwards and southwards to Ceylon and Singapore.
An annual herb, erect or ascending, hispid with copious, crisped hairs. Stem and branches l-2ft. Leaves very short, opposite, elliptic-oblong, obovate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, toothed or serrulate, ½-1½in. long; base usually narrow and obliquely cordate ; nerves distinct. Stipules minute, linear ; petiole distinct, very short. Involucres numerous, in axillary and terminal dense-fid, sessile or peduncled cymes, minute, about 1/20in., pubescent ; limb or glands very narrow or obsolete ; glands small, globose. Capsule 1/24in. diam., appressedly or patently hairy. Seeds pale-brown, acutely-angled, transversely, shallowly rugulose, ovoid.
Uses. — Reported to have been successfully used in asthma and chronic bronchial affections. It is used in the forms of decoctoa or concentrated essence (Christy's New Plants and Drugs No. V., p. 64, 1882 ; No. VI., p. 93, 1882 ; No. VII., p. 47, 1884 ; No. VIII., p. 55, 1885 ; No. IX., p. 35, 1886). " Dr. Daruty informs me that the juice of both the Euphorbia pilulifera and E. hypericifolia is given with benefit in dysentery and colic, and that the milk is applied to destroy warts" (Christy, N. C. P., No. IX., p. 36).
The plant is chiefly used in the affections of childhood, in worms, bowel complaints and cough. Sometimes prescribed