82 Anjeer.--Ficus Carica. The Fig. A common fruit. Its virtues are
fully pointed out in Persian works. Another variety, called Anjeer
Deshtee, (Adam's fig,) Keonberrie. Some writers call the fig hot,
others describe it as cool, like the Goolur.
83 Aaont.--The Camel. The flesh is sweet to the taste, and light;
it increases the strength of vision and dispels flatulence, kills
larvÊ in the stomach, useful in piles, and increases bile and mucus:
in P. Shootur.
84 Aoode Belao.--Lutre Lutreola, (Shaw.) The Otter? An animal, named
also Kunduss, called in P. Saqeabi. Its scrotum is called Jeunel
bedesther. Its properties fully related in all Yunani publications.
85 Aoont Kutara.--A prickly shrub, about a yard high; both leaves and
branches are full of prickles, and its flowers are yellow; its fruit
round, and also full of prickles. It is bitter and pungent, useful
in phlegm and cough, also wind; increases bile, and is diuretic;
it promotes digestion, and increases the strength of the system. If
the fresh root be cut into small pieces, and the oil extracted from
it by heat, and this oil to the quantity of one masha, rubbed over a
plaintain leaf, and externally applied, it will increase Aphrodisia,
and lengthen its duration. This oil, applied to the parts, will restore
strength. Its application will also remove an offensive effluvia from
the axillÊ. Echinops Echinatus, (Roxb.)
86 Aoonk.--A plant, a yard or more in height, whose leaves are about 2
inches in breadth, and hard like the leaves of the Mocao; its flower
is prickly, and its seed very small, even smaller than the Powar,
which it resembles. There are two kind: the branches of one red,
the other white; both bitter, and promoters of digestion, decreasing
mucus and wind, removing flatulent swellings in the stomach or bowels,
and pains therein; useful in piles and Psora.