The Use of a Standardised Preparation of the Total Alkaloids of Kurchi Bark in Amœbic Dysentery
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Kurchi bark and kurchi seeds have been reputed drugs in the Indian system of medicine from almost prehistoric days, being mentioned by Charak in nearly 1000 B.C. for the treatment of subacute and chronic dysenteries. Though the alkaloids were isolated as early as 1853 by Haines, and also by R. C. Dutta in the Chemical Department of the Medical College of Bengal in 1880, and whilst recently some of the local drug firms have put up liquid extracts of it for sale on the market, yet it must be admitted that insufficient advantage of its amcebicidal properties was taken until the researches of Acton, Chopra and Knowles during the last two to three years placed its use upon a scientific basis. Since the publication of a paper on kurchi
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