This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...berry; seeds albuminous. Habitat.--Found in tropical regions, Asia, Arabia, Ceylon, Peninsula of India, Malacca, Bengal, Java. 382 ALSTONIA SOHOLARIS. Properties.--They abound in milky juice with which some acrid principle is frequently combined, hence many of them are intensely poisonous. The fruits of a few species ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...berry; seeds albuminous. Habitat.--Found in tropical regions, Asia, Arabia, Ceylon, Peninsula of India, Malacca, Bengal, Java. 382 ALSTONIA SOHOLARIS. Properties.--They abound in milky juice with which some acrid principle is frequently combined, hence many of them are intensely poisonous. The fruits of a few species are edible, of others are drastic purgative. The bark and seeds in some are tonic, febrifuge and astringent. India-rubber is obtained from the juice of many species, Allamanda Cathartica, A. Aubletii, A. Grandiflora, A. Yerticellata, A. Angustifolia. Habitat.--America, cultivated in India, growing wild on the Western coast and in Goa. Parts used.--The leaves and bark. Vernacular.--Burm.--Pha yung Chan. Mar. and Bomb.--Jheri Sontaka. Can.--Arasina. Malyal.--Arali. Characters.--Climbing shrub; leaves elliptical, lanceolate, and on short petioles, arranged in fours round each stem; flowers large and funnel or chimney-shaped. Constituents.--An alkaloid and a glucosidal acid, similar in action to cathartic acid. Preparations.--Infusion of the leaves ( 1 in 20). Dose, toi fid. oz. Extract of the bark. Dose, 1 to 2 grs. Actions and uses.--Hydragogue cathartic, in large doses, emetic. Used in lead or painter's colic, biliousness, and constipation. Alstonia Constricta, Australian or Queen's land fever bark. Habitat.--East Indies, Australia. Parts used.--The bark. Bark in flat pieces about quarter foot in length, one to two inches broad and about of an inch in thickness, highly fragile, very light and of a soft spongy texture; colour deep brown externally, yellowish brown internally, with deep longitudinal fissures on its outer surface; smell rather disagreeable; taste acrid and bitter. Dose, 3 to 5 grs. Constituents.--Alkaloid--Alstonine or chlorogenine...
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