In Concan the sweetened decoction of the plant with a little cumin seed is given for dyspepsia with pyrosis.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
The dinner, from the removal of the potage to the salad, bristled with truffles, and the banker's stomach, aged forty-seven years, experienced the burning and biting of pyrosis.
"The Lost Child 1894"
François Edouard Joachim Coppée