Minor Drug Habits of India
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Sir,?In part II of ' Minor Drug Habits' in your issue for February, under the heading of ' Chemistry of a Cup of Teaon p. 109, no mention is made of theophyllin as being one of the constituents of tea. A little further disquisition on this alkaloid would be interesting; as Hale White's Materia Medica, twentythird edition (the only book I have which mentions it), is rather sketchy. Older books don't mention it._ Theobromine is once or twice referred to, as if its composition and effects were the same as those of caffeine, which is hardly the case. On p. 124 of your same issue, the use of ipecacuanha is deprecated (though some medical men approve of it) and para 2 opens with the remark that ' Ipecacuanha is not indigenous to India'. No; but acalypha indica is, and its action is, said to equal that of ipecac. Is this true? What is its vernacular name?
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