Chobachini. Vern. Chobchini. Hind:

Fluckiger and Hanbury state that "the use of this drug as a remedy for syphilis was made known to the Portuguese at Goa by Chinese traders about A.D. 1535." If this statement, which is given on the authority of Garcia d'orta, is correct, the history of this drug will enable us to fix the approximate age of the latest and most comprehensive treatise on Sanskrit Medicine, namely, the Bhavaprakasa. In this work China root is described under its vernacular name of chobchini, as a root like Acorus Calamus, brought from a foreign country and useful in rheumatism, epilepsy, insanity and particularly in syphilis.2 It is used in modern Hindu medicine as an alterative along with anantamul and other drugs of reputed efficacy in syphilis and rheumatism.