Burra Gookeroo

Burra Gookeroo or Burra Gokhroo.—Under this name, in India, the fruit and sometimes the whole plant of the Tribulus terrestris L. (Fam. Zygophyllaceae) is used as a diuretic and aphrodisiac. The carpels have been commended in London as a remedy in nocturnal emissions; dose of fluidextract, from twenty minims to one fluidrachm (1.3-3.75 mils).

The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.