Part 9

If the leaves are rubbed on silver, and that put into the fire, it will become yellow; if the leaves are thrown into melted tin, it will assume the appearance of gold. If mercury be put into the juice of its leaves and well stirred about, then boiled in milk or vinegar, it will become yellow. If the green leaves be dried, pounded, and taken to the quantity of 9 masha for 14 days, the hair will never become white. If one direm of this and 14 direms of honey, with 10 direms of cow's ghee, be well stirred up together and taken every morning, the body will become strengthened, and the hair remain black. Two direms ate with sugar, will increase appetite, and cure seminal weakness and pains in the bowels. If its leaves are used as a cephalic, it will remove the effects of poisons. Some call it Roowunti; it is hot and dry.

495' Roodraz.--Commonly used in India for making beads which are much esteemed. It is bitter, pungent, hot, and vermifuge; rectifies an overflow of blood or a suffusion of bile in the blood; cures mucous affections and head-aches. Is useful in disorders of children, and is an antidote to poisons.

496 Ruswut.--"An extract from the root of the Amomum Anthorhizum, Roxb." Bitter and pungent; hot; beneficial in mucous disorders, affections of the mouth, eyes, boils, and eruptions. In A. Huzzood. "Mixed with equal parts of alum and opium, rubbed up together with a little water, it is perhaps the best application in ophthalmia ever used, applied all round the eye." Trans.

497 Russ.--In P. called Sheera. When written singly, it means the juice of the sugar-cane. It is moist, aperient, and promotes digestion, and removes flatulence.

498 Rusunjeen.--A name for Ruswut.

499 Russ Kapoor.--"An oximuriate of mercury." A medicine of India, resembling the Sumbulkhar; hot and dry in the 3rd degree. It is a poison, but is very useful in Lues Venerea; it affects the gums, loosens the teeth, and debilitates the stomach. Its corrector is milk and butter; its succedan is DarshÈkina: the dose one soorkh.

500 Rekhbuk or Rekhbukh, or Rekhba. The title given to any medicine that promotes digestion. It is cool, strengthens the system, increases semen and mucus, cures disorders of bile and blood, heat at stomach, emaciation, wind, and hectic fever; it increases mucus.

501 Recktaal or Rukitkund, a kind of PÈndaloo.

502 Ruckitchunden. Pterocarpus Santalinus, W.

Racta Chundana, San. A name for real Sanders wood. Sweet, bitter, cool, heavy; it strengthens eye-sight, induces costiveness; creates nausea, cures thirst, disorders of the blood, bile, fevers, and boils or other eruptions.

503 Rukitsal.--Red rice. A kind of Santi; it is light and is very beneficial; increases strength, clears the complexion, removes disorders of the three secretions; is diuretic, clears the voice, increases semen and wind, and removes general heat.

504 Rukitphoop.--A variety of the KanaÈr; some say it is a kind of the Biscopra; it is called by both names.

505 Rungni.--Pungent and hot; destroys appetite; cures cough, asthma, mucus, and fever from mucus and wind. The white Rungni is pungent and hot; increases eye-sight; consolidates (amalgamates) mercury; promotes appetite, loosens phlegm and wind.

506 Rungtirra.--Called also Sungtirra. It derives its name from the Emperor Allam Gheer the 2nd, because he used it as a medicine; and because no name of a stone can ever be mentioned in the presence of the Emperor, instead of Sungtirra it was therefore called Rungtirra.

507 Rawasun.--A name of Rasun.

508 Rohoo.--A name for Shobooth. It is slightly astringent, and in a small degree increases bile; also gives general strength. I have found it beneficial as an aphrodisiac in strengthening the system and increasing semen; but I have observed that if it does not digest easily it weakens the stomach and produces much mucus; its corrector is ginger, honey, or other medicines of a hot and dry quality.

509 Roohus.--Vide Kundhul.

510 Roopa.--Called also Roopuk. (Silver.) Astringent, moist, cool, aperient, cardiac, and stomachic. It augments the strength of youth, and preserves meat from becoming putrid; decreases fat, strengthens the brain and bones, and thickens semen, decreases corpulency, and cures disorders of wind and bile. It forms an ingredient in all famous recipes. Its calx is called Roopruss, and it is more powerful than any other. Ranga resembled it in its properties, also Gold.

511 Rooi.--When very old, if stuffed into the nose, it promotes the discharge of every thing offensive from the brain. It also cures disorders in the head, the consequence of indigestion, as also hemicrania. A. Kotun (Cotton.)

512 Romus or Mudwal. A name of Bindaloo.

513 Rohni.--Of two kinds, both astringent and cool; beneficial in worms in the stomach, and affections of the throat, which it also clears.

514 Roheera.--A medicine of India; laxative; useful in wind, Badgola, affections of the liver and spleen, and in dropsy.

515 Rahusphill.--A kind of Mowa.

516 Reewudj.--The name of a shrub, cool and useful in suppression of urine, general heat, disorders of the three secretions, and blood; its tree is astringent and hot; cures disorders of the mouth, and is an antidote to poisons; it is vermifuge, cures itches, boils, and wounds, and disorders of the blood and mucus. It prevents the effects of evil-eyes, or demoniacal possession.

517 Reech.--The Bear. Its taste is sweet, cool, and heavy; it is aphrodisiac, and removes affections from wind. P. Khirs.

518 Reenga.--The fruit of the Sumhaloo; produces appetite, clears the uterus after parturition; increases knowledge and bile.

519 Reetha.--"Sapindus Saponaria. The soap-nut, soap-wort." Hot, and useful in disorders of the three secretions, and in blood. This however does not coincide with the result of my experience, but I have found it useful in cases of hemicrania, as a cephalic used in the opposite nostril: prevents demoniacal possession. A. Bunduck Hindui.

520 Rewind.--"Rheum Palmatum. Rhubarb." Laxative, stomachic, and astringent; and if taken after meals with rose water, it promotes digestion and strengthens the bowels. It removes mucus from the pylorus.

521 Zeera.--"Cuminum Cyminum, W. Jiraca, S. Cumin seed." Hot and dry; light, stomachic, astringent; increases knowledge, clears the uterus; and of use in disorders of that viscus; it relieves flatulence, Badgola, and vomiting.

522 Zeerki.--A name for Zuerishk.

523 Zachmeheath.--A small shrub, growing close on the ground, covering it with its foliage; it is found by the side of fields of water; it is of two kinds, the leaf of one small and thin, those of the other broad and thick. The first kind is excellent in the cure of piles: thus, dried in the shade, pounded, sifted, and taken every morning in the quantity of a palmful with water, for fourteen days; and every night at bed-time, taking 12 mashas of K˙nd Sia, and during its use abstaining from all acids, or other things, which may produce wind.

524 Zerki.--A name of pepper, called also K·la Dana.

525 Zumiekund.--A name for Soor˙n.

526 Sanbir.--A name for Sembile.

527 Saarba.--A medicine of India, of two kinds, both sweet, moist, and heavy; produces semen, and is aphrodisiac; cures disorders of wind, bile, mucus, menorrhagia, and colliquative diarrhoea in fever.

528 Saramill or Sarumluk, or Saral.--The author of the Dara Shekoi has described this as a medicine of India, and in other works that I have consulted, it is called Sangterra. In taste it is astringent, and heavy; beneficial in disorders of wind; and increases mucus and bile.

529 Saluk or Salook.--A flower, q. vide.

530 Sagown or Saag.--A tree of the hills of Hindostan: the upper surface of the leaves is hard and raised like a file. Some say that this is the Pheelgosh (Elephant's ear), from its resemblance to the ear of the Elephant; it is cool, and useful in disorders of wind and blood. "Tectona grandis."

531 Saalpernie or Saloom.--A medicine of India; heavy, cures fever, difficulty of breathing, and disorders of wind, bile, and mucus; it produces nausea, restrains diarrhoea, beneficial in dryness of the seven dhats, strengthens the system, is aphrodisiac, and forms an ingredient in all the favorite formulÊ. In the Dhunterri it is written, that in its taste it is pungent; having small and green leaves, the seed-vessel about an inch long, seed small and numerous; curing chronic fevers, seminal weakness, and swelling of the body. It is said to be hot. "Hedysarum Gangeticum."

532 Saalie.--A tree of the hills, of which elephants are very fond, and which soon brings them into good condition. It cures boils and eruptions, disorders of blood and mucus, and restrains diarrhoea. Its branches quickly take root by being planted, and when used as posts for the support of a roof, it quickly covers the whole with its foliage.

533 Saaltie.--Commonly called Kaphoor Kutcherie; cool light, astringent; promotes digestion, cures cough and disorders of the blood. A species of Kachoor, having a pleasant smell like Camphor.

534 Saaje.--A name for Serje, q. v.

535 Sawang.--A culinary grain, used by the villagers; it is smaller than the Badjera, is smooth and pointed; it grows also wild, of a smaller size. It is cool and dry; useful in bilious disorders and mucus, and dries the seven d'hats.

536 Saal.--Sweet to the taste and pungently sweet in digestion; cool, light, astringent; cures disorders of wind, bile, and mucus, and preserves the health. There are other kinds of this, but this is the one to be preferred. One kind is red, called Rakitsal; it is nearly of the same nature, (a kind of rice).

537 Salamookh.--A kind of rice like the former.

538 Saro.--(Myna). Its meat is dry and moist in equal degrees; increases knowledge and appetite, strengthens the system, removes laxities of the bowels, useful in bruises and hurts, relieves cough, lessens mucus and hectic fever; it is called Sawur, and in A. Zerzore, P. Sharug.

539 Sabur.--A kind of deer, whose skin is used in covering sheaths for swords, and by the lower classes and hunters as lining for their clothes. Its meat is sweet; in digestion it is cool, moist, and heavy; increases mucus, and cures disorders from diffusion of bile.

540 Sarass.--A species of heron, "Ardea Antigone." A large bird, with a long neck and legs, of a lead color; the male lives always with his mate. Its flesh is cool, moist, and heavy; strengthens the system, decreases urine and fÊces, cures disorders of wind, blood and bile.

541 Saamp.--The Snake. Its meat is moist and heavy, is vermifuge, and kills worms in the rectum; increases knowledge, strengthens the system. If the old skin when shed be bruised and applied to the eyes, it increases the strength of vision; and if burnt, and its ashes rubbed on parts where no hair grows, it will reproduce it. Snakes avoid its smell when burning, and if the whole skin be tied round the thigh of a woman in labor, it will facilitate the process. P. Mar.

542 Saal.--The name of a common tree, the wood of which is generally useful. It is cool and astringent; cures disorders of wind, mucus, poisons, boils, eruptions, and is beneficial in burns. A. Saage.

543 Satoon.--A name for Chitoor.

544 Sip Kullie.--The Lizard. A. Saamaberus, P. ChillpusÊ. It does not frequent those places where saffron is kept. If split open and applied to a part where a thorn or arrow may have entered deep, it will effect its extraction by suction.

545 Soopearee.--"Areca Catechu." Astringent, cool, dry, and heavy; cures disorders of mucus and bile, increases appetite; removes bad taste in the mouth; when fresh it is very heavy and produces flatulence; is diaphoretic; injures appetite and eyesight, and causes a prolonged retention of semen.

546 Subskun.--A name for Baraikund.

547 Sutarie.--The juice of the Soopearee tree; it strengthens the teeth and stomach, contracts the vagina, and cures leucorrhoea; it is intoxicating.

548 Setoopula.--A kind of sugar.

549 Setawur,--also Setawurie or Shetawur, vide S.

550 Sutputtrie.--A name for Roocha, vide R.

551 Sutsar.--A kind of cucumber.

552 Suteepulas.--A kind of Kutchoor.

553 Soocherakhar.--The common Sedjee, (impure carb. of soda.) This name is given to the purer sorts. If 3 mashas be mixed with a cupful of dhaie, it is useful in cholicks. If mixed with lime juice, it is used to write on stone, and the stone placed on a slow fire as long as you can snap your fingers 100 times, and then taken off, when the writing will be found white and permanent. The physician Nouruddee has mentioned this to be the case.

554 Sedarth.--Pungent and bitter, hot and dry; cures disorders of mucus, itch, Juzam, apthÊ; is vermifuge, and promotes appetite, but causes diffusion of the bile in the blood, and its consequent disorders. The green leaves are heavy and cool. In my opinion they are hot, and obstruct the flow of urine, increase indigestion, and disorders of the three secretions. The above is a white kind of Sersom, the name taken from the Sanscrit.

555 Sud Sohaung.--The name of a red flower in India; its leaves three-cornered, serrated; it is cool, and beneficial in disorders from poisons, bile, blood; in dropsy and nausea; 3 mashas of this bruised and taken with water is useful in gonorrhoea.

556 Suda Khar.--A salt from a grass, very hot, and is used for cleansing lardaceous matter from sores; it increases the opening in boils, but decreases strength.

557 Sudaphill or Sudeephill.--A name for Bale.

558 Sudagolab.--A flower like the rose. Its tree is larger than the rose-bush, and its flower has a different smell; it is always in flower, from which circumstance it derives its name. I have not seen this noticed in any other work of India, but it is probably the Koocha: q. v.

559 Surphoka.--A plant of India, about a yard in height or sometimes more. It is very common; it is also called Joojer, and is a kind of Chirchirra Soorkh. It is bitter, astringent, and light; cures disorders of the liver and spleen, boils and eruptions, and cough; is an antidote to poisons; useful in disorders of the blood, difficulty of breathing, and fever. I have found it very beneficial in clearing the blood, and useful in correcting bile, curing itch, lues, and other eruptions.

560 Serje.--A name for Saaje. "Tectona grandis."

561 Sooryalee.--A plant about 6 feet high. I have seen it in Hissar in abundance; it grows in the rains and spreads over the sides of houses, its stem is then about an inch in diameter; its branches also thin, and of a bright red colour; its flowers are beautiful, white and red; when ripe it in some degree resembles wheat; its flowers are crooked. It is aphrodisiac.

562 Sirpund.--Aperient; cures general swellings, and disorders of wind and bile.

563 Sericbans.--Useful in mucous disorders and affections of the eyes.

564 Seriss.--"Mimosa Seris," called also Sereeka; a very large tree of India. Its flowers have a sweet smell, and are very beautiful; it is cool, cures boils and eruptions, poisons, aches, and swellings. If a decoction of the leaves be taken internally in ophthalmia, and the juice of the leaves dropped into the eye, it will be very useful, and this I have tried. The bark of the tree dried and pounded is excellent when sprinkled on foul ulcers, in which too it kills maggots. The smell of the flower is useful in head-aches and hemicrania, in cough and in jaundice. If the root of the white Seriss be kept in the mouth, it lengthens aphrodisia. Some have called this Layetoolatees. If the seeds be bruised with water, and this dropt into the eye, it will remove specks; the oil of the seed is also very effectual for this purpose.

Maadentezerrubad.

"Seriss is among the Indian physicians, hot and dry, and in the opinion of some cool and dry; it cures swellings and wind. If the bark of the stem, the bark of the root, with the flowers and seeds of each, 3 mashas, be bruised, sifted, and mixed with cow's urine, and taken thrice a day, it will cure the bite of a snake, and for one whole year no reptile will injure you. The bark of an aged tree is the best. When the sun shall be in the division Joura, if daily for three days, 6 mashas of the bark be taken in congee, it will render the person invulnerable to the bite of any noxious reptile for a year. If the oil be extracted by heat from the seeds, and applied to the white spots of leprosy, it will cure them."

565 Sirool.--Bitter, hot, and light; cures affections of the throat, ear, eye, and disorders of wind.

566 Sirsom or Seerkup. P. Sirshuph.--In India this is used to produce a very common oil; it is hot, and increases disorders of the mouth, and decreases mucus and semen; expels wind; is vermifuge, and if much be taken it will injure the eyesight; if a woman uses it during the lochial discharge, it will increase her strength and improve her complexion. One kind of this is white, and is called Sedarth, q. v.

"Sinapis Dichotoma, (Roxb. MS.) Sp. ch. dichotomous, siliques cylindric, smooth, spreading, bark straight and tapering, leaves stem-clasping; the lower somewhat lyred, superior ovate, lanceolate, entire, all are smooth, as are also stem and branches." Roxb.

567 Soorunkitki.--A kind of Ketki, like the Sinobir. It has twelve leaves or more in the flower, its scent is sweet and soft. The plant flowers only once in 6 or 7 years; both kinds are sweet, cool, bitter, pungent, and light, and cure disorders of mucus. The juice of the Keora is also used for the same purpose, and mixed with it, is cardiac. The Ketki is a variety of Keora.

568 Sirunmaki.--It is astringent, pungent, light, aphrodisiac and cardiac; cures Juzam, swellings of the body, piles, seminal weakness, pains in the urinary bladder, marasmus, disorders of the blood, and dropsy; is an antidote to poisons; cures hectic fever; clears the throat, and is an ingredient in all favorite formulÊ.

569 Seroopjeea.--A kind of Jeeaphup.

570 Seriepurnie.--A kind of Arnee, also called Gumbar.

571 Seroopbudder.--A name also of Gumbar.

572 Surwalla.--The name of a common shrub.

573 Sussa.--A name for the hare. The meat is sweet, cool, and light; induces costiveness, increases appetite, cures difficulty of breathing and sunpat, removes dysentery, and is both a medicine and article of diet.

574 Suffrie Amer.--The Guava, "Psidium pyriferum." Vide Anervade.

575 Segund Philla.--A kind of date.

576 Soogunass.--A name for Arloo.

577 Sillajeet, also Silladeet, Styrax or Storax; a balsam, pungent, bitter, and stimulating, more pungent in digestion; hot, cures seminal weakness, piles from cold, Juzam, dropsy, marasmus, difficulty of breathing, tabes, idiotism, swellings of the body, disorders of mucus and blood. Is vermifuge, lithontriptic, and otherwise generally useful. It in one of the most powerful remedies; is stronger than any other ingredient in whatever formulÊ it may form a part, and it increases the effects of all others; it is the favorite medicine of all Indian physicians.

Sut Sillajeet is the strongest, for this means Sillajeet in a refined state. I have found it excellent in gonorrhoea, and for thickening the seminal fluid; also for strengthening the kidnies and urinary bladder. The mode of preparing it, is as follows:

The Sillajeet is dissolved in water and placed in the sun in a new earthen vessel till it becomes thick, and its color assumes a reddish or yellowish hue; then it must be taken from the surface as much as is clean, and preserved in another new vessel; this too is placed in the sun, well protected from dust, till it becomes dry. This is the Sut Sillajeet, and what remains in the first vessel is again purified in the same manner for three different times, and each time the pure drug is dried as above. It is easily purified by fire, and more quickly; but this is much to be preferred. It is brought from the hills ready prepared.

Maadentezerrubad.

"Sillajeet is the urine of the hill wild goat, which when the animal is rutting, is discharged on the stones and evaporated by the sun's heat. It is found in small quantities, of a black color. It is hot in the 3rd, and dry in the 2nd degree. In the opinion of Indian physicians, it is useful in all kinds of seminal weakness, in swellings, in Juzam, epilepsy, diabetes, stone in the bladder, and in gravel. The Sillajeet is often mixed with lime, but the adulteration is discovered by the change of color. Some have said that it is the urine of the wild ass, found as above. The purified kind is the best. In Juzam, if ate for 40 days, it is a cure, and even in the last stages of the disease it is beneficial. It loosens wind and phlegm."

578 Sillaruss.--Hot and moist; increases eyesight and semen, and cures Juzam and itch. A. Myasayela.

579 Somooderphill.--A medicine of India, more black in color than the Hurr, of a square shape, and its corners of a red color; these, however, also become black from age; mixed with human milk and used as a cephalic, it will cause a discharge of all phlegm from the head. If mixed with the juice of the Gooma, it will cure hemicrania. The bark of the root is very efficacious in swellings of the hands and feet; and ate with salt and anise seed in warm water, it will be found excellent in pains of the bowels.

Some have named this Hubbooneel, but how far this is correct I know not.

Maadentezerrubad.

"Somoderphill is hot and dry; if introduced into the nose with goat's milk or urine, it will cure head-ache, hemicrania, suppressed mucus, &c. If mixed with goat's urine and applied to the eyes, it will cure night blindness, and removes opacities in the cornea. Mixed with human urine, it is both ate and applied to the nose in bites of snakes, and with sheep's urine or buffaloe's dung is applied to the pubis in the cure of diabetes; mixed with turmeric, it is an useful application to the spots of white leprosy; with sugar, ate for the cure of seminal weakness; with aniseed, in pains of the bowels; with cow's urine, in hiccup; with dhaie, as an astringent; with ginger, in rheumatism; with human urine, in black jaundice; with cow's urine, in mesenteric obstructions of children; and for those who are dull of hearing, mixed with Bhangra or honey, as an application to the inside of the ear. In restrained or obstructed lochia, or retention of the placenta, with asafoetida; and with cloves and sugar, in intermittent fever."

580 Somooder Phane.--Sponge.

581 Somooder Lone.--Murias SodÊ. The sea salt; it is sweet and bitter, hot and cool, in equal degrees; tonic, anthelmintic, purgative; promotes appetite and digestion, cures disorders of wind, and corrects irregularities of bile and mucus.

582 Somoodersake.--Convolvulus Argenteus, also Ruttunmala.

Maadentezerrubad.

"A seed like the mustard; black and aperient, cool and moist, in the 1st degree; is aphrodisiac; strengthens the stomach, removes heat of urine, gonorrhoea, thinness of semen, the secretion of which it thickens and increases. It is astringent, and produces flatulence. Its corrector is sugar; its succed. Sireyara: dose six mashas."