173 Pursarnie.--Hot and purgative, pungent and strengthening; expels
wind, disperses phlegm, &c. In the Maadentezerrabad, Pursarnie is
said to be a medicine of India; hot and dry, beneficial in leprosy,
boils and pains in the joints, mucous disorders, and flatulence.
174 Berahumnie, or Berrumdundie.--A wild plant, growing very low, with
very thin branches and dark-red flowers, having small prickles on them;
it is sweet, cool and light, increases knowledge and memory, relieves
pains in the back, clears the voice, and is useful in marasmus,
seminal weakness, and fever. In the Maadentezerrabad, it is thus
described--Beramdundie, a medicine of India, with prickles on its
flowers; hot and dry: seven scruples in powder taken in cow's milk,
increases memory; is aphrodisiac, and beneficial in mania; it also
removes too great irritability in the seminal vessels.
175 Berahumie.--I have given a description of this separately,
as it is so done in the Maadentezerrabad. A medicine of India, of
the herb tribe; pungent, astringent, hot and dry in the 2d degree;
beneficial in cholicks, phlegm, epilepsy, depression of spirits,
fever from mucus, and delirium from cold; it is also stomachic.
176 Peroza, or Berektummun.--A common stone, called in India Feroza. It
is astringent and sweet, stomachic, and an antidote to all poisons.
177 Biscopra.--Trianthema Pentandra. A wild grass, of a spreading
kind, about 1 1/2 or a yard long; its leaves are like those of the
Bookla Yemania, but rather less; its flowers are of a red yellowish
color, and the whole plant forms itself into a circle on the ground
of about half a yard in diameter. It is bitter, sweet, hot and dry,
also aperient. It cures boils, disorders from mucus, bile, blood,
wind, swellings, and creates appetite. It forms an ingredient in many
formulÊ. One kind of this is red, and is called Rukit Bhitt; bitter
and powerfully stomachic; cool, light, and inducing costiveness;
producing wind, beneficial in disorders of mucus, bile, and blood.
178 Pystha.--The Pistachio Nut. Sweet, hot, oleaginous, heavy,
aphrodisiac, and detergent; useful in disorders of wind and mucus,
and difficult of digestion. A. Fystuk.
179 Pysturling.--A name of Chitchera or Chirchera, so called from
its fixing itself in one's clothes.
180 Bussunti.--A flower of a yellow color; cool, light, pungent,
powerfully diminishing all the secretions and sensible perspiration. Of
a sweet smell, and pleasant to the taste.
181 Bishnookrantha.-- A kind of Biscopra, of a pungent nature,
strengthening the mental faculties; vermifuge; beneficial in boils,
eruptions and mucous disorders. Some writers have given it under the
head Kuneyr.