Chapter VIII: Front Matter (8)

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.

1043 Hunspeedie.--A small shrub, growing close to the ground; its branches thin; its leaves small like the Doodie; it is cool and heavy; useful in disorders of blood, poisons, boils, eruptions, acne, general heat, and possession by evil spirits. It induces costiveness, and is used to counteract the effects of poison of the Tarantula.

1044 Hingpootrie.--It is of two kinds, both pungent and saltish; hot and cardiac; assist digestion; beneficial in pains at the heart, and of the urinary bladder; induces costiveness; remedies piles, disorders of mucus, and Badgola.

1045 Huns.--The flesh is hot and moist; heavy and aphrodisiac; clears the voice and complexion; promotes appetite; beneficial in Soorkhbad and disorders of bile. P. Haaz.----Goose.

1046 Hhoobaer.--A seed about the size and color of the Phalsa, sometimes larger; it is said, that when young, it is red, and when ripe it becomes black. It is a kind of hill Serroe; its leaves like the Jhow. In its taste, it is pungent and bitter, astringent and hot, heavy, and beneficial in disorders of wind, bile, dropsy, and piles; is lithontriptic and vermifuge, and in the quantity of three direms, it expedites the expulsion of the dead foetus e utero. It will cure suppression of the menses, but if ate during pregnancy, will produce abortion. A. Abhul.

1047 Heeng.--Pungent and saltish, also hot; promotes appetite and digestion; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, internal itchiness, Badgola, flatulence, and pains in the bowels; is vermifuge; increases bile, and is aphrodisiac. It increases the power of all tonics and aphrodisiac prescriptions, but the particulars I have mentioned in my other works.

1048 Heeraclokhi. A. Dummul Echwder.

1049 Heerakussees.--A kind of Chund Kussees.

1050 Heera.--The name for Almass.

1051 Haimowtie.--A name for Hurrh.

1052 Habooka.--A denomination for Hhoobaer.

1053 Hingool.--A name for Shungirf.

SENSATIONS OF BURNING IN THE HANDS AND FEET.

This is of two kinds, a dry, and a sweating, kind. The method of cure among the natives is as follows:

Sweating kind.

Take of Chook, Khoot, Lahoria Nemuk, each two parts; Black Till Oil, 12 parts; mix and rub in for 14 days.

Dry kind.

Let a hole be dug in the earth, and fire kindled therein, till the ground becomes well heated; strew the bottom of the excavation with Mudar leaves, and sprinkle on them new milk, till the fumes arise. The feet to be placed in the hole, on the leaves, and a blanket to be spread over, and round the knees, to prevent the escape of the heated vapour. In this manner the patient is to sit till the place becomes cold; and this is to be repeated for seven days, when the cure will be complete.

In the opinion of the Physicians of Hindostan, the human frame is divided into seven principal parts. These are chyle, blood, muscles, fat, bones, brain, marrow, and semen.

THE TASTES ARE SIX: VIZ.

Sweet, Increasing Semen, milk, eye-sight, asthma,
obesitas, worms, and affections
of the throat.
Curing Wind and bile.
Cool and stomachic; creating appetite.
Acid, Increasing Mucus, bile, emaciation, fermentation
of the blood.
Curing Wind.
Salt, Increasing Appetite, digestion, mucus, bile,
wind, and disorders of blood.
Curing or decreasing aphrodisia, and
generally relaxant.
Light.
Bitter, Increasing Bile, wind, dryness, and heat.
Decreases Milk.
Dry and light.
Pungent, Increases Appetite and milk.
Decreases Thirst and fever.
Dry.
Astringent, Increases Wind and flatulence.
Decreases Wounds, ulcers, and laxities.

The general prescriptions and favorite formulÊ, mentioned throughout the work, are Tonics, which preserve health, lengthen life, and strengthen the system.

The principal secretions or humours are four in number; viz. mucus (or phlegm), bile, wind, and blood. When three of these are said to be increased or diminished, it is to be understood, that blood is not to be included. In fact, it never is, unless particularly specified.

DEGREES.

"The Yunani physicians, in specifying the different degrees of virtue, or power of their medicines, include in the

"First Degree.--All those whose effects are not felt in common doses.

"Second Ditto.--Such medicines as have perceptible effects; but in a moderate degree.

"Third Ditto.--Those of greater power, the exhibition of which must be conducted with caution.

"Fourth Ditto.--All poisons or medicines of any deleterious properties."

WEIGHTS.

One soorkh---- one grain.
One masha---- 8 soorkh.
One direm---- 3 masha.
10 mashas---- one tolah or Rupee.
One rittal is about 19 tolahs and two mashas.
One tolah, 12 1/2 mashas.

ABBREVIATIONS.

H. Hindi, P. Persian, A. Arabic, S. Sanscrit, F. French, G. German, I. Italian, S. Spanish.

INDEX.

A.

Art. Aak, 8 Aal, 9 Aaont, 83 Abbasie, 657 Abbea, 19 Abi, 7 Abnoos, 15 Abruc, 18 Aderuck, 29 Aditt Bagut, 10 Adjan or Adjain, 26 Adjmode, 22 Adjwain, 23 Adjwain, (Khorasanee,) 24 Adki, 4 Aechill, 89 Aegoor, 88 Aent, 90 Aginmunt, Agwunt, 50 Agunie Char, 55 Agur, 54 Agust, 51 Ahmlee, also Buzuroolreshad, 87 Aistallkund, 41 Akaholie, 3 Akasbele, 56 Akhroat, 52 Akirkirra, or Akirkirrh‡, 53 Akroat, 52 Alaechee, 59 Aloo, (Bochara,) 14 Alsi, 57 Alta, 60 Am, Ambe, Anbe, 1 Amarbele, 66 Ambarae, 65 Ambaray, or Ambara, 78 Ambegool, or Angool, or Ambegooda, 73 Ambeloona, 72 Amlie, 63 Amratuck, 68 Amroude, 67 Amrutphull, 64 Amulbedh, 61 Amulchangerie, 62 Amultas, also Kurwara, 69 Ananass, also Kutel Suffrie, 70 Anar, 76 Anbertasung, 80 Anbihildee, 16 Andaluck, 28 Anderjow, 75 Angud, 81 Anjeer, 82 Ankaloon, 79 Anula, or Amle, 5 Anwul, 12 Aoloo, 58 Aoode Belao, 84 Aoonk, 86 Aoont Kutara, 85 Aord, or Aort, or Maash, 32 Aorde Gunta, 40 Aoshire, Kuss Kuss, Ooseer? 47 Aotungun, 20 Apheem, 49 Apurjeeta, 17 Aramsheetul, 2 Area, 11 Arhir, or Toor, 31 Arjun, 36 Arloo, Catoombura, or Sheunag, 37 Armeede, 39 Arnd, 34 ArnÈ, 33 Arnee, 30 Aru, 6 Aruk, 13 Arusa, 35 Arvie, or Arum Colocasia, 38 Asgund, 43 Asperuk, 42 Asphill, Padmunie, 44 Aspurka, 46 Asteghoon, 48 Astull, Bunt‡ki, 45 Atees, 21 Aunalie, 77

B.

Baag, 108 Babchee, or Bakchee, 102 Babool, 126 Baboona, or Marehtee, 113 Babur, 104 Badgan, Khutay 115 Badjera, 122 Baeberung, 121 Baele, also Byll, 271 Bagerie, 185 Baluka, 95 Balchur, 120 Bale, 270 Bander, 107 BanjkakÛra, 98 Bans, 114 Bansa, also Pi·bansa 94 Barasinga, 105 Baraykund, or KeetkuroÛdh, or Subbuskund, 97 Barehie, 117 Baremoo, 116 Barumbie or Soonputtie, 163 Batassa, 134 Batees, 138 Bealduntuck, 279 Bear, also Konar, 276 Beekhbans, or Beedjbans, 93 Beerbahootie, 281 Becktindeek, 189 Bedareekund, 149 Bedarkee, 150 Bedhara, 152 Beechnak, 148 Beedjbund, 266 Bejoura, 145 Belaikund, 191 Benowla, 212 Benth, 267 Berahumie, 175 Berahumnie, or Berrumdundie, 174 Berchakund, 162 Berehta, or Berehti, 166 Beridda, 160 Bhaer, also Mendha, 237 Bhains, also Mahaki, 238 Bhang, also Bidjia, 248 Bhangra, 230 Bhapungi, 254 Bharingee, 236 Bhateele, 257 Bhehi, 244 Bhelawj, 242 Bhendi, 250 Bheria, also Bhudda, 239 Bheroza, also Gundha Bheroza, 256 BhindalÊ, 252 Bhoeperus, 247 Bhohphilly, 262 Bhoje Puttur, also Burje Puttur 232 Bhoodill, 258 Bhoom Kajoor, 243 Bhoom Kudum, 249 Bhoothpees, 259 Bhoom Amulek, 233 Bhuhira, 241 Bhuiteroor, 246 Bhuntaki, 264 Bhu'th Kutaeye, 261 Billie, 194 Billoousseeke, 195 Bindaal, 216 Bindeokurkotheki, 217 Birnaoo, or Buroo, 158 Biscopra, 177 Bishash, 182 Bishnookrantha, 181 Bitchoo, 144 Bole, 227 Boochitter, or Beechitt˙r, 245 Boont, 223 Bokun, or Bookla or Book, 183 Buckree, 188 Budgerkund, also Soorum, 147 Budhill, 151 Budjaesaar, 143 Bukaen, 186 Bukochie, 184 Bulka, 198 Bunbele, 203 Bunda, 199 Bunpowarie, 207 Bunslochun, 210 Burberi, 164 Bureeja, 165 Burrh, 157 Burruntaaki, 171 Buryara, 170 Bussunti, 180 Butaer, 137 Butch, 146 Butchudder, 142 Butela, 136 Buthua, or Pasthuk, 135 Byll, 196 Bylla, 197 Byrumbseerjella, 168