Part 8

421 CheehurÊ.--A tree of India; there is another kind called Choobnuz, and a third kind S·toona. Its wood smells strong and rancid; it is hot and dry in the 3rd degree; it is very oleaginous and greasy. If its juice be expelled by heat and collected, it is excellent as an application in paralysis, and it also cleanses large foul ulcers. Its milk is pungent and heating, and it is an active poison, hot and dry in the 4th degree; applied to the skin, it blisters; it is used in swellings from cold. Its wood is used internally in loss of voluntary motion or insensibility and epilepsy, and it is said to be lithontriptic. It injures the lungs, and its corrector is oil of almonds and gum. The dose is 3 mashas.

422 Jeewuk.--Cool and aphrodisiac; increases semen and mucus; cures disorders of bile, wind, heart-burn, emaciation, and hectic fever.

423 Cheenuk.--A tree of Hindostan; hot; useful in boils and eruptions, affections of the heart and disorders of wind; it is astringent.

424 Jeewuntie or JeÈw˙nie or JÈw·; cool, sweet, moist, light; strengthens the system and eyesight; is astringent; useful in disorders of mucus, wind, and bile. It forms an ingredient in all favorite formulÊ, and it removes feverish heat. The people of India use its greens in the beginning of the cold weather as food; the small Jeewuntie being considered as one of the best of culinary vegetables. It is called also Saag Sherista. The large kind is named BheÈndoorie, from its more limited mode of spreading its branches, and the small kind, for the contrary reason, is called BÈldoÛrie: this spreads to a great distance, and creeps along whatever it comes in contact with. The fruit is like the cucumber.

The above is also the name of a flower, which in the Dhunteri is said to be aphrodisiac, and to clear the voice.

425 Jeewung.--Also Buthua. Its stem is red.

426 Cheedah.--The small pine (Senobir Jegheer); sweet; pungent during digestion; bitter, hot, moist, light; useful in windy disorders, and affections of the eyes, throat, and ear.

427 Cheenah.--"Millet. Panicum Italicum. Pan. Pilosum." P. Arzum. A. Dakhun. Its properties are nearly the same as the small seed called Kongnee.

428 Cheetul.--An Indian Deer, black and white, pyebald. Its flesh has the same properties as the Chikara.

429 Cheetah.--Its meat is hot and heavy; useful in disorders of wind, affections of the eyes and voice. In A. Phahus; it is also the name of a medicine mentioned hereafter.

430 Cheel.--"The Kite. Falco Cheela," Lath. Its meat is heavy, and increases disorders of the three secretions. In P. Gh˙llevaz. A. Hyd·t.

431 Jeepaul.--A name for Jamalgota.

432 Cheetah.--"Valerian? Plumbago Zeylanica or Plumbago Rosea, W." A medicine; one kind of which is red, the other purple; inside of a yellowish color; both woods are very thin, and both are pungent, bitter, dry, light, astringent, stomachic, and increase the powers of digestion. The red kind, mixed with strong vinegar, and rubbed hard on the spots of white leprosy till blisters arise, will have the effect of removing the complaint. A. Sheetrudj.

433 Cheea or Cheetkeh, both names for Hurr.

434 Khutchur.--A. Bagul. P. Astur. The mule. Its flesh increases strength; is aphrodisiac; it likewise increases mucus and bile.

435 Khergosh.--So called in Persian. The hare. Its Indian name is Suss·h. Vide S.

436 Kherboozah.--So named, both in Persian and Hinduee. It is hot, dry, light, and sweet; when ripe it increases bile, and is diuretic and lithontriptic. Its corrector is oxymel.

437 Khuss, also OsheËre.--In the hot weather it is used for cooling houses. It is cool, assists digestion; is astringent, and cures bilious disorders; also those of mucus and blood. It allays thirst, cures blisters and acne, general heat, dysuria, boils and eruptions; prolongs aphrodisia, and I have found it excellent as a cardiac and astringent.

438 Darhuld.--The wood of a tree called Huld. It is pungent and bitter; hot, dry, and useful in disorders of phlegm, bile, and blood, in acne, seminal weakness, swellings of the body, marasmus, boils, eruptions, in affections of the eye, pain in the ear; is lithontriptic, and cicatrizes wounds.

In the Maadentezerrubad, is the following:

Darhuld is a wood of a yellow color; if bruised with Malageer, mixed with honey, and taken, it will be found excellent in marasmus, and as an external application in the itch.

439 Datoon also Danth or Danti, names for Hubboos Salateen. In Hinduee Jamalgota. "Croton Tiglium, W. Jayap·la, S." It is bitter, pungent, and hot; promotes digestion; cures bilious affections, also foulness of the blood, disorders of mucus, swellings of the body, dropsy, and worms. It is violently purgative, and clears off the three secretions, but more especially mucus and black bile. It is not a safe medicine for weakly people, children, or the aged; but it is proper for those of strong constitutions, such as the Highlanders or country people, on whom weaker medicines have little effect. I have seen some of the hill people eat from 5 to 10 of the nuts without producing more than two or three motions, whereas the people of this city (Delhi) find half a nut as much as they can well bear.

The small green substance in the centre or heart of the nut, ought to be thrown aside, as it is poisonous. I have given this medicine very often with great good effect, and it is a general favorite with the physicians of Hindostan. In cholicks attended with vomiting, I have prescribed it with good effect.

440 Daoodie.--A common plant, about half a yard high, on which grows white and yellow flowers; it is hot and dry, and the smell of the flowers removes disorders from cold on the brain by heating it. The powder of the flowers, in the quantity of 6 mashas, with sugar, is lithontriptic, and in the quantity of 3 mashas if it be boiled, and the decoction drank with sugar, it will also be found beneficial. If the flowers are boiled in oil, till the virtue be extracted, the oil will form an excellent external application in all affections arising from cold; a conserve of its flowers strengthens the stomach and the brain, and removes depression of spirits. The juice of the leaves is attenuating and suppurating. "Marigold, Chrysanthemum."

441 Dabeh.--A kind of grass; useful in suppression of urine; is lithontriptic; cures disorders of bile, phlegm, and removes pains in the urinary bladder.

442 Darum.--The pomegranate of the hills. "Punica granatum, W." It is very acid and astringent; it increases appetite and promotes digestion; is cardiac; decreases bile, removes depression of spirits, and the sweet kind decreases the 3 secretions.

"The bark of the root a cure for TÊnia. Boil 8oz. in 3lb. of water to a quart. Of this the patient takes a wine-glassful, and repeats it as the faintness will admit."

443 Darmee Saar.--The pomegranate seed. It cures disorders of bile. I have found its powder very useful in giving tone to the stomach and removing heated bile; it is also astringent. Mixed with medicines of a laxative nature, it is given in India on account of its tonic effects, and its preventing injury from other medicines.

444 Darma called also Soombulkhar, or rather it is a species of arsenic.

445 Dakh.--Cool, heavy, aperient; improves eye-sight; increases aphrodisia; removes fever, thirst, difficulty of breathing, affections of wind, bile, and blood, jaundice, dysuria, and heat of body. Its corrector is to be found in its acid, which cures mucous disorders and eruptions from vitiated bile, and the same effects will be produced by grapes without seeds. The hill grapes are acid, light, and useful in mucous disorders, but in some degree increase bile. Ungoor. The grape.

446 Daad Murden.--"Cassia Alata, W." The expressed juice of the leaves, mixed with salt, used for the cure of ring-worm.

447 Dooparia.--"Pentapetes PhÊnicia." The name of a common flower, of a rose color, and white, and flowers at noon. It is light, astringent, and cures disorders of mucus and bile.

448 Dutchina Virna.--Bitter and heavy in digestion; dry, and increasing wind; cures cough, boils, eruptions, disorders of bile, and affections of the eyes.

449 Durba.--A name for Doob, called also Shittb˙ra.

450 Durbhur.--A kind of Lawa. Vide L.

451 Dusmool.--A mixture of both kinds of PunjËmoÚl; it increases appetite; cures disorders of bile, mucus, difficulty of breathing, cough; decreases perspiration; removes morbid inclination to sleep, also fever, flatulence, pains in the bowels, and pleuritic affections.

452 Dukdoka.--A name for DoÚdhËe.

453 Dumna.--A kind of Murzunjoosh, called also Dawna; its leaves have a finer smell than the flower, and are very numerous. It is an antidote to poisons; useful in disorders of the blood and the three secretions, Juzam, nausea, and watery itch. Its properties are hot, and it is hurtful to those of the like temperament. Its smell causes dryness of the brain. The wild Dawna is the most powerful.

454 Dundundana.--A shrub about a yard high; its leaves like those of the Baer. It is a trefoil, and in the centre of the three leaves there is a capsule, which when ripe breaks and discharges the seed; it is of a whitish brown color, some more white than others; its seed resembles those of the safflower, but is longer and more broad. It is used as an ingredient in the first medicine given to a child at its birth to clear its bowels.

455 Doon also Shittb·ra.--The latter is white and cool; cures acne, disorders of mucus, bile, blood, thirst, and general heat. "Poa Cynosuroides."

456 Doodhee called also DukdÚka.--A grass of two kinds. The first kind does not rise from the ground; its leaves green; its fibres very small. The leaves like the Til. If the branch is broken, a white juice exudes like milk; from this it has derived its name; it grows about a span in diameter. The second kind has red branches, and is much about the size of the other; the first is the hottest and best. It is dry, heavy, and aphrodisiac; cures affections of wind and mucus, also Juzam and worms. It is flatulent; and a third kind of it called Mydha SeËngie; also a fourth JhËnawurha.

From the Maadentezerrubad.

Doodhee is of three kinds: The first large, called Meendha doodee; its tree like the Bael; its fruit like the Aak, and like it too, there is a cottony substance contained in it. Its flowers are white, and milk exudes from its broken branches. If the cottony substance be applied to the piles, and the patient seated over a hot place, that the cotton become well heated, it will cure the complaint. Its leaves are like the Paan. The second kind is very small, and remains spread on the ground; its branches are red, and its leaves thin; it is beneficial in gonorrhoea and in ulcers of the urethra. If it is bruised and eaten for a year, in the quantity that can be held in the palm of the hand, it will be aphrodisiac, increase the secretion of semen, make the hair black, and preserve the eyesight. The 3rd kind grows to the height of 7 or 8 inches, and is useful in seminal weakness and diabetes. If 9 mashas be taken with sugar, it will be useful in remedying a too hurried seminal evacuation and heartburns. The second kind is cool and dry. "Euphorbia hirta."

457 Doodee.--A name for Hubb-ul-neel. A purgative seed, beneficial in affections of bile, mucus, piles, worms in the belly and rectum, in badgola, and is an antidote to poisons.

458 DoÛdputeya.--A name for Chirkakolie, another kind of which is called Kakolie.

459 Doodka.--A name for Doorie; cures superabundance of wind, mucus, phlegm, piles, worms, Badgola, and is an antidote to poisons.

460 Dhamin or Dhunoon.--A prickly tree, astringent and light, and useful in disorders of phlegm, bile, blood, and in cough.

461 Dhunjawasa.--A kind of J·w·ss·; its properties the same.

462 Dhadahwun.--The name of a tree, useful in disorders of phlegm, wind, poisons, Juzam, piles, and Sunpat. Sunpat is a disease consisting of loss of sensation and universal chilliness and numbness.

463 Dhaw.--"Grislea Tomentosa, Roxb. Lythrum Fructicosum, Linn." A prickly shrub, cool and useful in bilious disorders, mucus, piles, marasmus, &c.

464 Dhawa.--A tree, the flowers of which are generally known; it is also called Dhatki, bitter, pungent, astringent, cool, light, and curing laxities of the bowels; useful in disorders of bile and blood, and is an antidote to poison; is vermifuge, beneficial in acne, and is a little intoxicating; it is also recommended in prolapsus ani, menorrhagia, and hÊmorrhoides; it is said to be equal in its properties.

465 Dhatura.--"Datura Metel. W. Datura Stramonium." A plant about a yard high, more or less. It has numerous branches, like the Benghen plant; it grows wild, and is also cultivated; its leaves are like those of the Abassie; its seed vessel like the walnut, or rather larger; it has small prickles on its surface, and is filled with seeds. There are several kinds of it. One has a black flower, and also a blackish seed vessel: another is white; the first is seldom met with, and is the strongest of any; the flower is of the shape of the Toorhee, (a wind instrument, a trumpet.) It is hot, heavy, and promotes appetite, but produces vomiting; useful in disorders of phlegm, poison, itch, worms, and nausea; clears the complexion, cures fevers, Juzam, boils, and eruptions, as also many other disorders. It is a very active poison; its corrector is cotton, leaf for leaf, seed for seed, flower for flower; its nut is to be chosen in preference for medical use. If the root of the black Dhatura be kept in the house, it will be productive of both good luck and a good name; if it be dried in the shade, and taken in conjee to the quantity of 9 mashas, all white hair will fall from the head and black hair grow in its place. If the root be dried and pounded to the quantity of 160 direms, and mixed with 80 direms of cow's ghee, and placing it on the fire in a new vessel, form it into the consistence of sweetmeats, then tying up the mouth of the vessel close, place it for 40 days among paddy, at the expiration of which time, let the person bathe and give alms to the poor; and let him take out the preparation, and eat as much as he can take up between two fingers, daily for 40 days, fasting; and nothing used as food except rice and milk, abstaining from all acids; lost strength will be restored, youth renovated, the hair never will become white, and it will prove aphrodisiac.

If the black Dhatura be bruised and mixed with goat's milk and sugar, and boiled, it will cure barrenness in women.

If the flowers of the black Dhatura be bruised, mixed with honey or cow's ghee, and a little of your own blood added, and this used as a Tilak, or ornament on the forehead betwixt the eyes, whoever sees it will become your slave, be it man or woman. If a woman so uses it, her husband will never forsake her!!

466 Dhunia.--"Coriandrum Sativum, W. Dhanyaca, S." Astringent, during digestion sweet, cool, dry, and moist in an equal degree; light, diuretic, carminative, and cardiac; increases appetite, cures disorders of wind, bile, phlegm, and blood. It is vermifuge, and useful in difficulty of breathing, cough, thirst, and piles; it lessens the seminal secretion.

467 Dhak.--A name for Palass, "Butea Frondosa."

468 Dholkudum.--A kind of Cudum.

469 Dhumaha.--A creeping plant, growing near the water, covered with thorns like the Jawassa, extending even to its flowers. It is small and green before it flowers, like the nightshade. In the Dhuntori, it is said to be pungent and astringent, useful in vertigo, chronic fever, and disorders from poison. In dropsy, vomiting, seminal weakness, and delirium, it is beneficial. I have given it with those medicines which clear the blood, and I have found its effects to be like the Jawassa, some indeed call it a variety of this. It is said to be hot and dry in the 2nd degree, others have called it equal. Heated, bruised, and applied to indolent tumours, it will be of use.

470 Dhaie..--Increases the three secretions; it is called by the physicians of India hot and moist, that of the cow is the best. It is astringent in its effects, restrains hemorrhage from piles, and the following R. is known by experience to be excellent.

Take 1/2 a pow (4 ounces) of dhaiÈ, 4 1/2 mashas of moist rice, fried in the husk (Lahie), 2 mashas of dried ginger; stir the dhaie well till it becomes thin, add a little water, and then add to it the fried rice, bruise and pound the ginger, and sprinkle it in. This must be ate daily for a week, when it will so effectually stop the bleeding from piles, that it will not return.

471 Dhanqie or Dhaoie; cool and of a bitter taste; light, allays thirst, is astringent, vermifuge, and antidote to poisons.

472 Dhawnie.--A name for Perishtpirnee.

473 Dheerukmola.--A name for Saalpurnie, deriving its name from the large size of its root.

474 Dhendus.--It resembles the Quince, with a green rind; the people of India eat it, dressed with and without meat; it is preferable to the cuddoo; cool, beneficial in bilious disorders, and quick of digestion.

475 Deodar called also DÈodarie. The name of a tree; the wood of which bears the same name; it is resinous; hot and beneficial in wind, phlegm, costiveness, piles, and fever. "The Fir tree."

476 Deomun.--A name for Mahumeed.

477 Raab.--Treacle; it is heavy; strengthens the system; is diuretic; increases perspiration, and the three secretions.

478 Raje Umber.--A fruit of India; sweet, cool, astringent, and useful in disorders of mucus and bile.

479 Rassun..--Commonly called Raisun or Rowasun; a tree about the size of a Baer tree, or larger; it is a weak biennial plant, but grows rapidly when transplanted. Its leaves grow on both sides of a centre stem, like the Tamarind, and it is rather longer: the tree grows straight from the root. The author of the Topha has described it as a root, and says that the people of India call different medicines by the former names, but they are both the same, and it is the common kind that I have described. Its pod is like the Lobeia (bean.) The flower is outside yellow and inside red, with a tinge of yellow. Its leaves contract in the night and unfold in the morning. Some have called it sweet and cool, and have described many varieties of it, white, yellow, red, and grey; but I fancy the difference is merely confined to the color of the flowers; some have said that it diminishes strength. Its flowers are peculiarly beautiful. If its leaves are bruised and applied moist to swellings, it either resolves the tumour or hastens suppuration; it is bitter and heavy, cures disorders of wind and mucus, swellings of the body, difficulty of breathing, eruptions from suffusion of bile, itchiness in the stomach, dropsy, and increases the powers of digestion.

480 Rajejakha. A medicine of India; astringent to the taste; dry, heavy, and astringent in its effects; increases wind and foecal evacuation; decreases appetite, and adds to the secretion of milk.

481 Rajehuns.--A name for Purse·washan.

482 Rai.--"Sinapis Ramosa, Roxb. sp. ch. Annual, erect, ramous siliques expanding, linear, vertically compressed, smooth; leaves petioled, lower lyred; superior, sublanceolate, (Roxb. MS.) Murray II. 398, Woodville III. 409." Cool, bitter, hot, and dry; beneficial in mucous disorders, itch, and Juzam; is vermifuge, stomachic, and increases diffusion of bile. A. Khirdul.

483 Raang.--Stannum, Tagarum, Tam. Hot, dry, light, and soft; strengthens the eyes; is vermifuge; useful in marasmus, difficulty of breathing, and a deficiency of bile. A. Rusas.

In the Maadentezerrubad, it is thus described: Raang is called in P. Kaley; cool in the 2nd degree, and moist in the 1st degree. Calcined, it is slightly cool and dry. If a piece of this Kaley be put into a pot with meat, you may boil it as long as you please, but the meat will not be properly boiled. The Kaley for internal use is calcined, the dose from one to two soorkh.

483 Raal.--Bitter and astringent; cool, heavy, and inducing costiveness, cures Deojur, acne, boils, eruptions, fever, and cracks in the thickened cuticle of the feet; and it lessens perspiration. A. Kaar, also Kikahur. It is said also, that if put into a pipe with tobacco, and one whiff taken the 1st day, two the second, three the third, and so on, it will be found very useful in ulceration of the lungs. Maadentezerrubad.

484 Ramputtrie.--"Maadentezerrubad." An Indian flower which I have not seen, but which I understand to be like the rose; its properties are, that if it is well rubbed with mercury, it will kill it, and both united form a black mass. More of its properties I know not.

485 Rajeneemboophile.--The sweet lime; it is heavy, and useful in bilious disorders and wind. In my opinion it is a cool cardiac, and decreases heat and thirst.

486 Raibele.--A name for Bael. The wild kind is called, Kynd.

487 Rashna.--Bitter and slow of digestion; cures cough, wind, disorders of blood, and is an antidote to poison, dropsy, and mucus, and it promotes digestion. Its leaves, root, and branches are used in medicine.

488 Rajdooree.--A name for Jewuntee.

489 Raje Ummur.--A name for Umbarie Burrur. It is cool, sweet, and astringent, cures some affections of the mouth and phlegm.

490 Rasie.--A name for Rudd.

491 Ruttunjooth.--A medicine of India. Its leaves are green, and its branches red and yellow; if its branches be bruised in sweet oil, and applied to the head, it will cure Tinea Capitis. Its name is also Abookhoolsa. P. Cheojoora. It is a native of the hills; it is also said to relieve weakness of sight by causing a copious flow of tears, when externally applied.

492 Rattaloo also Runtaloo. A culinary root, common in India; sweet and pleasant to the taste, cool and slow of digestion; removes oppression on the spirits, bile, and general heat. It increases semen, strengthens the system, and adds to the bulk of the solids. "Dioscorea."

493 Ruttun.--A name of J·w·her. Ruttun (the word) used by itself means Almass; but all compounds obtain the name of Jaw‡her; it possesses all the six properties.

494 Rudd.--A name of Rassie. It is cool and heavy; strengthens the body; removes disorders of wind and mucus, increases semen, and during digestion is pungent and sweet.

495 Roodwunti.--A plant very generally useful.

When the Pookhnichittur shall happen on a Sunday, take the root, leaves, flowers, and branches, taking care that your shadow does not reach them; leave them five nights in the dew, and then dry them in the shade. Four mashas ate with sugar and honey daily, will be found aphrodisiac. If it be washed for 21 days in the juice of the plantain tree, then bruised and washed in the juice of the Moondie, sugar taken and boiled in the juice of the plantain tree, and a little of the Roodwunti added to it, then adding cloves and cardamoms one tolah each, musk and camphor each 1/2 tolah, and the whole made up into balls of a tolah each, and one eaten daily in boiled milk, it will be found aphrodisiac. If it is taken simply, mixed with sugar, it will have an aphrodisiac property.

Another account.

Of the Roodwunti there are four kinds, black, white, red, and yellow, male and female; the female is distinguished by some of its leaves dropping water. It grows in a moist or watery soil, near Gwallior; it is green, and its leaves and branches resemble gram. The leaves of the male kind are said to transmute metals, and are considered very valuable on that account. If one part of this, half a part of Tirphilla, one-fourth part of Tircoota, and the bulk of the whole of sugar be bruised and sifted, and as much ate with cow's milk, as may be held in the palm of the hand, it will cure all disorders to which the human frame is subject, and transmute old age into youth. Maadentezerrubad.