In North India this drug is used as emmenagogue and anti-arthritic, and in Banda for intermittent fevers and intestinal disorders.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Most adults died in their 40s, after becoming arthritic from hard labor.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Stiffness of joints is liable to follow fractures implicating articular surfaces, or it may result from arthritic changes following upon the injury.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson