338_a_. The leaves, which abound in mucilage, have attained some repute in bowel affections, and Mr. B. Evers (_Indian Med. Gazette_, March 1875) made trials with them in sixteen cases of _Dysentery_. Recovery followed in each case, but they were all of a mild type, and though the remedy acted as a demulcent, it did not appear to exercise any specific influence on the disease; besides, as opium had to be conjoined with it to control the tenesmus, the benefit may have been due as much, if not more, to the opiate as to the mucilage. It is evidently a remedy of very secondary value, and inferior to Ispaghúl Seeds (304). The seeds have powerfully emmenagogue properties assigned to them, and it is believed by the natives and Anglo-Indians that, if taken in large quantities, they are capable of producing abortion. In _Amenorrhœa_ the employment of a warm hip bath containing a handful of the bruised seeds has been reported on good authority to be an efficient mode of treatment. It seems worthy of further trial. In three cases of _Dysmenorrhœa_ (_Painful Menstruation_) Mr. B. Evers (_op. cit._) administered with benefit the powdered seeds in ten-grain doses three or four times daily. At the same time he employed the hip bath containing the bruised seeds as mentioned above. 339. +Sulphur.+ Gandak, Gandhak (_Hind._, _Duk._, _Mah._, _Guz._, _Punj._), Gandrok (_Beng._), Gandakam, Gandhakam (_Tam._, _Tel._, _Mal._, _Cing._), Gandhaká (_Can._), Kán (_Burm._), Blerang (_Malay_), Ganduk (_Kash._). 340. Several kinds of Sulphur are met with in the bazaars, but as their composition is unknown and some of them are reputed to contain a large proportion of arsenic, they are unsuited for internal administration; the better and purer kinds, however, may be safely employed as external applications.