151 Budhill.--Indian Suffergill (as it is called); the fruit of a
large tree, very common all over India; the tree is like a middle-sized
Jamin; its leaves are broad and longer than the Daak, but the latter
is round, whereas this is longish, irregular on the back, and very
brittle; when ripe the fruit is of a sweet acid taste, and when
unripe it is perfectly sour; when about half ripe, it is hot, heavy,
and flatulent, producing wind, disorders of bile, decreasing aphrodisia
and appetite, and increasing phlegm; when ripe its properties are quite
the reverse; but with respect to the disorders produced by suffusion
of bile, I have not ascertained if it is beneficial or otherwise. The
Dara Shekoi has not noticed this medicine, and for my information I am
indebted to works of Hindoostan. As far as I can judge, it increases
the tone of the stomach, raises the spirits; but taken in quantities,
it is difficult of digestion and produces flatulence. It is acid,
and therefore remedies bile, but it increases cough. The kernel
is astringent.
152 Bedhara.--A medicine of India, brought from the hills; it
is a light wood about the thickness of liquorice root; bitter and
astringent, hot and aperient. It is aphrodisiac; useful in disorders
of wind, phlegm, and blood; also in swellings of the body, seminal
weakness, and forms an ingredient in many approved formulÊ.
153 Pudmeinie.--(The Winter Lilly.) The flower of the Kawul; sweet and
cool, heavy and stomachic, astringent and useful in disorders of bile,
mucus, and blood. A. Neelophir.
154 Pudumcharnie.--A kind of the above, with few leaves; light and
beneficial in mucous disorders and suppression of urine, and it
hardens the matrix. For a more particular account, see Kawul.
155 Pudumrauj.--Sweet and astringent; cool and aperient; it strengthens
the eyes, corrects corpulence, cures boils, eruptions, and is an
antidote to poison. A. Yacootlal.
156 Pedloon.--A kind of salt; vide Noon. The salt of lead, called
also Kutchloon.
157 Burrh.--A large tree of Hindoostan, very common, cool and
heavy; astringent, useful in mucous disorders, in bile, boils, and
eruptions. In the Maadentezerrabad it is called Reesha in Persian. If
the milk is applied to swellings or boils, it will effect a cure
by resolution; or if applied to the eye, will remove specks on the
cornea. If a tooth be at all loose, the milk applied to it will cause
it to fall out without pain, but care must be taken that it be not
applied to the sound tooth. If the bark of the tree be put into the
pan in which fish is fried, it will soften the bones. The young shoots
of the hanging roots and the bark, are cool, dry, and astringent; the
milk is hot and powerful; the fruit less so. If the above-mentioned
young shoots be bruised and put into a cloth, and heated over the
fire, it forms an excellent and affectual application to lumbago or
other rheumatic affections. The fruit, ate with milk and sugar, is
mentioned as aphrodisiac, and increasing certain secretions. The young
shoots of the pendent roots and leaves, and the bark are astringent,
and useful in diarrhoea. The leaf-buds are also recommended for the
same complaint, dressed with meat or otherwise.
158 Birnaan or Burna.--A tree of Adjmere; the wood of which is used
for making beads, which from their beauty are sent to different places
as presents. Its medicinal property is hot and aperient, stomachic,
beneficial in disorders of the blood, phlegm, wind, dysuria, and
emaciation; it is vermifuge, and lithontriptic.
159 Purpeeloo.--The Araaq Hindui. Cool, and useful in itch, Juzam,
hemorrhoids, disorders of blood, mucus, and bile.
160 Beridda.--A medicine of Hindoostan; cool, and grateful, increasing
seminal secretion, removing cough, hectic fever, disorders of blood,
and phlegm, and increasing the strength of the solids.