135 Buthua, or Pasthuk, "Chenopodium album." A plant about a yard
high, or even less; its leaves are small like the mint, soft and
serrated; when the plant is old, it becomes a little larger, but the
leaves remain the same. It is used in India as a culinary vegetable,
and ate with or without meat; the leaves are sweetish when young;
it delights to grow near water, and is found both in the wild and
cultivated state, but the wild is considered the best; it is light
and laxative, strengthens the system, is useful in affections of the
spleen, eruptions from diffusion of bile, piles, worms, ascarides in
the rectum, and corrects all natural secretions except blood. A. Kutf.