Part 16

979 Murdok.--A shrub, found in the hills; its leaves like those of the cucumber, its root called Davaun nemr. The leopard eats the root, which produces a swelling near its tail on the back: this is called Hadjurun nemr. P. Nirkpulung. This if bruised, and applied to the carbuncle, will expedite its cure; and if a woman applies it to the parts of generation, she will not conceive; and if her husband visits another woman after having been with her, she will not conceive. It is a runnet, and coagulates milk. If preserved about your person, and you visit a baker's shop, the bread will fall from the oven into the fire. It is about the size of a clove of garlic, and is variegated on its surface like the skin of the tiger.

980 Nadey.--A species of Jamin.

981 Nagarmotha.--A name for Motha. Cyperus Pertenuis.

982 Nagbulla.--Sweet, acid, and astringent; hot and slow of digestion; useful in itch and ulcers, also in disorders of bile.

983 Naaoe.--A common shrub, very hot; useful in disorders of wind and mucus; produces appetite; assists digestion. Its leaves used as a culinary vegetable.

984 Nirbissie.--A name for Jedwar. "Curcuma Zedoaria. Amomum Zedoaria. Kempferia Rotunda." Sp. ch. Spikes lateral, bulbs small, with long yellow palmated tubers; leaves broad-lanceolar, sub-sessile on their sheath, sericeous underneath; color uniform green. Banhildie; pungent and cool; useful in disorders of wind, mucus, blood, and every kind of poison. Is tonic; carminative; useful in flatulent cholic, but it increases ulcers.

985 Nerkutchoor.--See Kutchoor.

986 Nergoondie.--Resembles Rootki, but smaller and black. The author of the Ulfaz has without due enquiry pronounced this to be the Sumhaloo, but this is a different plant. It is hot and dry, useful in disorders of mucus.

987 Neyrmellie.--"Strychnos Potatorum, W. Cataca, San." It is cool and dry, some say it is in equilibrium. If bruised and mixed with foul water, it will clear, and purify it. If bruised in water, and applied to the umbilicus, it will relieve the griping pain of dysentery. If bruised, and applied to the eyes, it will strengthen eye-sight; also if applied to the bite of a snake, it will remove the effects of the poison. If eight grains of it be mixed with a little water and sugar, and drank, it will be found beneficial in gonorrhoea. I have seen this in my uncle's receipt book, but the dose was not there specified. If four grains of this be bruised in water, and mixed with dhaie, and left in a covered China vessel for a night, and taken in the morning, it will relieve suppression of urine, gonorrhoea, chordee, and bloody urine; but it must be used for a week.

988 Niswut or Mahaseyama, or Ritchita. It is a little bitter and sweet; also bitter during digestion. It is hot and dry; laxative; relieves wind; useful in fever, disorders of bile, mucus, dropsy, and swellings. The black kind is a poison and very hurtful; it is a powerful drastic purgative; produces insensibility, heat, giddiness, and injures the voice.

989 Nuk Is of two kinds, both sweet to the taste; hot and light; removes possession by evil spirits; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, and blood; is an antidote to poisons; cardiac, and clears the complexion, called Uzfarooteeb.

990 Nukchecknie.--A name for Koondush. It is a low shrub, does not rise from the ground; its leaves like the Tirrateruk; its flower like the Neemb. It produces eruptions in the mouth, beneficial in disorders of wind and phlegm, and is vermifuge. It is called Chicknie.

Maadentezerrubad.

Nukchikenie is a medicine of India, hot and dry; expels wind; beneficial in mucus, paralysis, and paralytic complaints, loss of memory, pains in the joints, and is aphrodisiac. If one seer of this with quarter seer of sweet oil, and half the weight of Mulkungnie, be put into an earthen vessel, and its oil extracted in the manner described under the head Puttaljuntur, and given in the quantity of four soorkhs in Paan, it will be useful in all the above-mentioned complaints, and in all mucous disorders. It will be advisable to use this medicine only in the cold weather, as it is, in itself, very hot and powerful.

991 Nullwa.--Cool; strengthens the eye-sight; useful in bilious disorders, affections of the blood, Juzam, difficulty of voiding urine, general heat, mucus, and acne.

992 Null or Nullie; grows in watery and moist places; it is cool, and useful in disorders of the eyes, in eruptions of the mouth or apthÊ; clears the blood; clears and dries the vagina, and is diuretic. Some have called it heating.

993 Nemuk Chitchera Is thus made. Take two bundles of that kind of Chitchera, which has inverted prickles, reduce it to ashes, and collect them into a vessel; then add a great quantity of water, and mix and wash it well with the hand; leave it for a night, add more water, put it into a cloth, and let it strain through slowly by drops; boil the clear fluid till the salt will precipitate or crystallize.

994 Nemuk Soonchur also called Nemuk Sia. "Muriate of soda. Bitlaban. Kala Nemuck, H." A tonic in dyspepsia or gout; a deobstruent in obstructions of the spleen and mysenteric glands of children; a stimulant in chronic rheumatism and palsy; a vermifuge. An analysis of the black salt gave,

"Black oxide of iron, six grains; sulphur, 14 grains; muriate of lime, 12 grains; muriate of soda, 444 grains; loss four grains = 480 grains." It is thus prepared: Take two seers of Anula, one seer of Ashkhur, bruise both and mix them with 20 seers of rock-salt, also bruised; put the whole into a vessel, cover the vessel with a cloth, all except the mouth; lute this cloth well with soft clay, and place it in the sun to dry. When perfectly dry, put it on the fire, (let the mouth of the vessel be rather small.) Keep constantly stirring it with an iron spatula or spoon; when well boiled and mixed, take it off and allow it to cool; then add Tinkhar, Jawakhar, Tilkh, Kibreeth, sweet salt, and soot, equal parts; mix all well together, and add a quantity of salt-water; then boil the whole down, and strain as directed under the head Nemuk Chitchera.

995 Nemuk Kutchloon.--The salt of glass, called Muskhoo Koonia, also Zoobdat ul Kawareer. It is the froth of glass; it creates appetite; clears the blood: there is another kind of salt called Budhloon. This is hot and stomachic; restrains laxities of the bowels, pains, and consequent swellings of the urinary bladder, heaviness, and stuffing of the chest, disorders of wind and mucus; also expels wind.

996 Nemuk Udhbidh.--The common Unkaloon; this is a kind of black salt; it is light; clears the blood; it is speedy in its effects, and as an external application, and it expels wind.

997 Nemuk Soendha.--Sweet to the taste; cool, moist, and light; promotes appetite and digestion. Is cardiac, strengthens vision, and is useful in wind and bile.

998 Nekund Baaperi.--A medicine of India, called also Oontura or Anere. It is hot and moist. If used as much as can be held in the palm of the hand, for a year, no poison will prove hurtful; in fact it counteracts the poison of snakes, and all other poisons. If two direms be eaten with as much aniseseed, for six months, the hair will not become white; two direms ate with dhaie, will be found effectual in gonorrhoea. Eaten with the leaves of the lime tree, and four seeds of peepul, it will cure obstinate fevers; with goat's milk, will cure quartans; with Foifil for three months, will cure white leprosy, also foulness of the blood, Juzam, boils, and scabies.

999 Nundbyrchun or Nundbyrkha. Hot and light, and in its properties resembling the peepul; indeed it is reckoned a species of that tree. It is useful in disorders of mucus, blood, poisons, boils, and cuticular eruptions.

1000 Nunahuld.--The small turmeric, called also Mameeran.

1001 Newarrie.--A flower in India, like the Chumbeley, but has no smell. It is of two kinds, one procured in the hot season, the other in the rains; the second kind is also called Newalie. Both are pungent, light, and useful in disorders of all the secretions.

1002 Nowsader.--"Muriate of Ammonia. Sal Ammoniac, F. Salmiak, G. Sale Ammoniaco, I. Sal Ammoniaco, Sp. Also Nowshader"; very pungent salt, and as a medicine or application, speedily effectual. It is aperient, beneficial in cholics, dropsy, costiveness, and pains in the bowels.

1003 Nowllee.--The young leaves of the lime tree; they have a sweet and grateful smell.

1004 Neeturbala.--Cool, dry, and light; produces appetite and digestion; cures eruptions of diffused bile; bilious and mucous disorders, general heat, boils, and eruptions. Some say, that this is the Nalee, but this is a mistake, for Nalee is the name of a different medicine, though it may be that of both. As the Neeturbala is seldom met with, a substitute is used in the branches of the Neelophir, dried.

1005 Neela Totha.--P. Tootia Subs. It is of two kinds, both aperient, and useful in scabies and Juzam, disorders from poison, and mucus; is vermifuge; reduces corpulency, and is useful in certain diseases of the eye.

1006 Neenuk.--Its flesh is sweet to the taste; light, tonic, and aphrodisiac; useful in disorders of the three secretions. It is a kind of Barasingha.

1007 Newla.--In its properties resembling those of the cat. A. Ibn Urs. "The mongoose, Ichneumon, Viverra Ichneumon."

1008 Neelkunt.--"Coracias Bengalensis." A bird; its meat is useful in disorders of mucus, wind, and blood. P. Subsuk.

1009 Neendie.--"Vitex Nigundo, W. Lagondium Litorium, Rump. Bhemnosi, Rheede. Vitex Trifolia. The leaves heated are discutient, effectual in dispelling inflammatory swellings of the joints from acute rheumatism, and of the testicles from suppressed gonorrhoea."

1010 Neela Sindhuk.--A name for Sumhaloo, (Sobaloo?) P. Punjkysht. A kind of the above; both are bitter to the taste, astringent, pungent, and light; increase knowledge; strengthen vision; also strengthen the hair of the head; remove itchiness of the abdomen and swellings; are vermifuge; useful in Juzam, boils, eruptions, and disorders of mucus; improve appetite, and relieve cataract. The leaves of the Sumhaloo, smoked as tobacco, or equal parts of them and tobacco bruised and applied to the part, will cure hydrocele.

1011 Nypaul.--A kind of Chureyta, called also Nupaul Neeb.

1012 Neenboo.--P. Lymboo. Citrus Medica, W. Jambira, S. Refrigerant, antiseptic. Peel stomachic. The Lime. It ripens in the hot-weather, and attains the size of a hen's egg. It is of a green yellowish color. Its rind is very thin, and thence it derives its name Kagsi. One kind of it is always in fruit, and a sweet kind of it is called Rajineenboo phill. Its properties are particularly noticed in Yunani works. It is said in some publications to be an antidote to animal poisons, both internally used, and applied to the parts.

1013 Neel.--The indigo, very common in India; hot and bitter; useful in boils, affections of the spleen, Soorkhbad, dropsy, strengthening the hair of the head; but it weakens memory, and produces giddiness.

Its leaves are used as an application for colouring the hair, and are in great estimation on that account. From its heating quality, it either decreases or increases a discharge from the nose, according to its nature; and when it is used for colouring the hair of the beard, cloves ought to be mixed with it, to increase its heating quality, when the person is of a cold temperament.

1014 Neelisbund.--A kind of Apirchetta, q. v.

1015 Neeb.--"Melia Azedirachta, W. The pride of India, the leaves of a nauseous bitter taste, (devoid of astringency,) Flem."

A very common and large tree of India, much esteemed; it is of four kinds, the medicinal properties of all the same. It is astringent and bitter; pungent and cool, (some say hot and dry;) some call its qualities in equilibrium; it is quick of digestion; useful in disorders of bile, wind, and mucus, and I have known it to be of use in Juzam and white leprosy. I have also exhibited it with success in eruptions and scabies. One man I knew, whose whole body was white from leprosy. I prescribed it to him for 40 days, and cured him. I took the kernel of the seed, bruised and sifted it, and gave it in the quantity that might be contained in the palm of his hand, fasting, and prohibited him from using any other kind of food than bread or dhal, without salt or ghee.

It is also said by Hukeem Ali to be excellent in curing obstinate old ulcers, as also fistula in ano, by the application of its leaves. It is given in many and various ways. Its leaves are given fresh, sometimes dried and pounded, sometimes its juice is given, often the juice of the leaf buds, and not unfrequently its bark. It is likewise given mixed with Noora. Its juice is used with Noora to cleanse foul ulcers, and to cure carbuncle, and this it effects in a very short time. The Noora is added to it in one-eighth of its quantity, and Hukeem Ali has declared it to be the best ingredient in ointment that he ever tried.

I have often used the leaves heated as an application to swellings and boils; it in some cases resolved them, in others expedited suppuration, and in all was beneficial. I have added salt to the bruised leaves for the same purpose, and found that it added to its efficacy.

A decoction of the leaves as a fumigation is excellent in discussing swellings, and with the addition of the leaves of the Sumhaloo, with additional good effect. A fumigation of less heating properties may be obtained by the leaves of the Anbassaleb, being substituted for the Sumhaloo. The water of this decoction is useful in cleansing foul ulcers, and removing pain from the joints.

The Neeb in the opinion of Indian physicians is cool, and Hukeem Urzanee has described its qualities as equal. If the decoction is used as a wash for the hair, it will darken its color, and increase its growth; and if the juice of its young leaves in the quantity of five or six direms be taken for seven days, it will cure scabies, ring-worm, and all kinds of acne, and it will purify the blood. A decoction of the bark of its root will restore suppressed menses, and if taken with goor it will produce abortion: prepared in this manner it will cure the under-mentioned diseases.

Take of the flower, seed, bark of the root, and leaves (called Punjuk), let them be infused for a night in two maunds of water, then bury it in the ground for a month, after which distil its water for use.

All species of scabies, white leprosy, Juzam, (when not too far advanced,) and disorders of all the secretions. Some mix the Punjuk of the Bucaen with the above, and it is said to increase its virtues. If the seed be bruised in water, and applied to the head, it will remove head-ache. Its juice is vermifuge. If three masha of the leaf buds with half masha of black peepul be eaten for 21 days, it will remove disorders and foulness of blood; increase the strength of vision, and by its juice being introduced into the eyes, will cure night-blindness.

I have given it for cleansing the blood, correcting vitiated bile, scabies, idiotism, and all disorders arising from disordered bile, thus: By mixing the distilled water, above-mentioned, with filings of Sissoo, the leaves, flowers, and bark of the Bucaen, and Shatirra, and Surphonka, white Sandal, filed, and Gowzeban, mixed well, and a water distilled. It will also be found useful in Juzam and white leprosy.

1016 Neelobe.--The Saruss.

1017 Neelgau.--"The Wild Cow, (a species of Elk.)" Its size is somewhat between a horse and ass. Its meat is greasy, hot, and moist; sweet; increases the secretion of semen; also bile, and eruptions of the apthous kind. It is also called Rooja. A. Bakur ul Vaish.

1018 Nainjooth.--A name for Mameeran.

1019 Neelkunti.--A small shrub of India; its leaves thick in a middling degree; its root and flower is blue: also another kind, which grows in gardens, is called by this name. Its properties are not known to me.

1020 Vaasun.--Called also Bootee Shaikh Fureed, which also signifies a hill.

1021 Vcherkhar.--A name for Nowshakur, also Nowshader; some call this a composition, and some say it is the salt Zakoom, made by the branches being cut small, burnt, and prepared.

1022 Veedoorie also Bedoorie. A. Ynoolhur. It is commonly known by the name Sahroonia; hot, acid, and useful in cholics.

1023 Veroojun.--Also Beroojun. The author of the Kasmi has described this as a small stone, or a name for any small stone; some describe it as a kind of Jewaheer.

1024 Harsinghar.--"Nyctanthes Arbor Tristis;" also called Hursinghar. It grows to about a man's height, and when at the very highest, is about 12 feet, though some have seen it even higher. Its leaves are pointed, thick, and hard; its flowers small and white; their stem red. Its leaves rubbed on ring-worm cure the affection: first scaling the part, then healing. It is cool and light; useful in disorders of wind, mucus, and bile. It is aphrodisiac, and re-unites broken bones.

1025 Haloon.--"The seed of the Cress, or Lepidium Sativum." The seed of the Agur; it is smaller than the seed of the Tookbalingha, but thicker, and of a red color; it is aphrodisiac and tonic; removes hiccup, wind, mucus, and disorders of the blood. It is hot and dry. A. Hurf.

1026 Hudhjora.--The flower of the Hursinghar; it produces the re-union of fractured bones, from which property it derives its name. "Cissus quadrangularis."

1027 Hoorhoora.--A small plant, with many flowers, of a white color, and very small: one kind of it is called Burumseerjela. The first kind is cool, heavy, and diuretic; useful in disorders of mucus and wind. The second is hot and light; useful in seminal weakness and fever; and is lithontriptic, and removes difficulty of voiding urine.

1028 Hurunkherie or Hurunkhoorie. A small plant of India; its leaves resembling a deer's hoof, which has given it this title. It is usually found in wheat fields; it is hot, and aperient; useful in scabies, Juzam, and loss of sensation. If one direm fresh be eaten with 10 grains of black-pepper, bruised, daily, it will restore lost sensation.

1029 Hurtaal.--"The yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment." Pungent and astringent; hot and dry; useful in disorders from poison, scabies, Juzam, aphthÊ, disorders of the blood, mucus and bile, fever, and possession with evil spirits. It is a common application in scabies, and is called Zernikh Zerd. It is of five kinds, yellow, red, green, white, and black. The yellow is called Hurtaal, and the white kind is used by alchymists in the transmutation of metals; it is in the opinion of every one hot and dry in the 3rd or 4th degree; its corrector is milk and cow's ghee; its dose four ratties, after it is killed or prepared, and is thus much esteemed as a medicine in disorders from cold, such as paralysis, epilepsy, affections of the joints, Juzam, and white leprosy. It is aphrodisiac, and increases appetite and digestion.

It is thus prepared for use in Leprosy.

Take one tolah of yellow arsenic, wash it seven times in milk, then grind it for 24 hours, adding as it dries, a little milk, then let it dry a little, and make it up into small pills. Then take half seer of the Bhurr Tree (the bark), pound it, and put it in a vessel, and among the powder put the pills with a little Chunam (lime), above and below them; after this, shut the vessel so well up that no smoke can escape, put it on the fire, and keep it in a strong heat for six hours; then opening the vessel, pour in over the pills a little ghee (butter), to cool them. The dose will be one soorkh daily, for seven days, abstaining from any thing salt.

Another method.

Take half a tolah of Hurtaal Tubki, bruise it, and grind it with milk or the juice of the castor; form it into pills as above. Then take of Dharafilfil half a tolah, bruise, and use it in lieu of the chunam above alluded to; form the pile of 15 pieces of cow-dung in a hole dug in the ground, on these lay the pills, supported and covered with the Dharafilfil; over them place an equal number of pieces of cow-dung, and set fire to the whole. When it is cold, take out the pills, and preserve them for use. Dose half Soorkh.

Another method.

Take of the Hurtaal half a direm, bruise and grind it with the juice of the Kobee, for six hours, then form it into pills, place them in an earthern vessel well luted, then surround it with 10 pounds of dried cow-dung, set it on fire, and when cool, remove them. The dose one grain or barley corn. Salt prohibited. Given in Paan.

Another method.

Take of Hurtaal half a direm, tie it up in a cloth, and let it remain for seven days in cow's urine, again for the like period in lime juice, and an equal number of days in milk of Mudar. The two first liquids are during the seven days to be twice changed, the last changed daily; then take out the Hurtaal, and grind it with milk of Mudar for six hours, form them into pills, and roast them as recommended in the two foregoing methods. The dose the same.

Another method.

Take of Hurtaal one direm, the kernel of the Kurinjua one direm, Alum one direm; first bruise the Kurinjua and strew the half of it over an earthern vessel, with equal parts of Shibyem·nie; then put over it the Hurtaal, and above that the alum; above all these, put the remainder of the Kurinjua; secure the whole as in the last method, and roast with 14 pounds of the dried cow-dung.

1030 Hyrbee.--A root of a yellow color; hot, dry, and aperient; useful in disorders of bile, mucus, and viscidities of the secretions; its dose is from one dang. to half a direm.

1031 Harun.--A name for Myrg.

1032 Hurr.--"Terminalia Chebula, W. The unripe fruit Zengi Hur, H. Myrobalans, Terminalia Citrina." A name for HulÈl·; its properties particularly described in Yunani works: astringent, sweet, laxative. Dose one of the fruits.

1033 Hurbarheorhi.--"Averrhoa acida, Linn. Cicca disticha, Gmel. Phyllanthus Cheramela, Roxb."

Or H˙rf˙rhÈorhi; a common plant; the acid fruit of which is used for preserves.

1034 Husthkool.--A kind of Baer, of a middling size.

1035 Husthal.--A kind of Pendhaloo.

1036 Husthuk.--A name for Arnd.

1037 Husthchinkhar.--A name for Kharkhusuk.

1038 Huldee called also Huld; it is pungent and bitter, hot and dry; useful in disorders of mucus, bile, blood, acne, seminal weakness, swellings, marasmus, and boils. It may be applied in small quantities externally, bruised, for the cure of bruises. P. Zerdchooba. A kind of this is called An'bËhuldie, "Curcuma longa."

1039 Huldia.--The name of a yellow poison; vide Hurtaal.

1040 Hoolhool.--"Cleome viscosa." A plant, about a yard high, more or less; its leaves are small and thin towards the branches; its seed-vessel is very thin, and contains numerous small black seeds. It is round, and bent in the centre; it is used as a culinary vegetable. It is hot and pungent; useful in cholic, dropsy, ulcers, and ear-aches; swellings, Juzam, and white leprosy. Its leaves, introduced into the ear, very useful in ear-ache. It is also beneficial in the piles; the parts being washed with a decoction of its leaves. In this complaint, the leaves are dressed and eaten with rice; five direms of seed ate with twice its weight of sugar before meals, and the meal to consist of Kitcheree, with plenty of ghee, (butter,) used for 40 days, will effectually remove piles.

1041 Huldoo.--The name of a tree; the wood of which is used in buildings; its properties mentioned under the head Darhuld.

1042 Hingote.--A tree; hot in its properties; useful in Juzam, boils, and eruptions; is an antidote to poisons, and to possession by evil spirits; beneficial in white leprosy and worms in the stomach. Its fruit is the size of the large Hurrhoe, and even larger, though when dried it remains about that size. The tree is about the size of a small Neeb tree.