183 Boqun, or Bookla, or Book.--A plant, the branches of which are
very thin, the leaves small, long and pointed; the flowers small and
white, growing on every knot of the plant; they are round, useful
in disorders from poison, phlegm, bile, and in dysuria. It also is
lithontriptic, and beneficial in general heat and delirium.
184 Bukochie.--Conyza, or Serratula Anthelmintica. One kind of
which is white, both sweet, astringent, and stomachic, powerfully
cool and dry. They are aperient, producing flatulent, tension of
the belly, promote appetite, and useful in disorders of blood and
bile, difficulty of breathing, leprosy, seminal weakness, fever,
and worms. The plant is carminative, and its seed increases bile,
is useful in white leprosy, disorders of wind and phlegm, and forms
an ingredient in many of the formula.
185 Bagerie.--Alauda. A bird, the flesh of which is cool, sweet,
and dry; beneficial in disorders of bile and mucus. In my opinion
it is hot and aphrodisiac; also cardiac, and increases corpulency;
it cleanses the blood, and is a very proper food for aged persons,
those of a cold temperament, or such as labour under cold diseases.
186 Bukaen.--Melia Sempervirens. (A species of the bead-tree.) The
Hindoos call it Mahaneeb, vide M. In the Maadentezerrabad, it is thus
described: Bukaen, is a common tree, cool, dry, and bitter; useful
in disorders of the blood, gravel, swellings, and miliary eruptions,
also piles and lumbago. If 9 mashas of the seed be bruised, mixed with
equal parts of sugar, and taken every morning in water, it will stop
the discharge from the bleeding piles; or if a seer of the seeds, when
they have become yellow, be infused in two seers of water, and buried
in the ground for 21 days, taken out, and 1/4 seer drank every morning
for six months, it will certainly cure leprosy; both Juzam and white.
187 Pushanbedh.--A. Jeuntiana. Its oil is equally beneficial, as
that before recommended for strengthening particular organs. This
and the Jeuntian are of a very different appearance, they are either
distinct plants, or have become different from peculiarity of soil
or cultivation. It is a root of a dirty-red color, or when broken,
of a bright red; in figure a little crooked. It is cool and laxative;
it is lithontriptic, cures seminal weakness, and gonorrhoea. My
late uncle used half of this, and half Mendhi, as an application
to the inside of the hands and soles of the feet of women laboring
under immoderate flow of the menses, and equal benefit was derived,
as is usually done from the Mendhi. In the Maadentezerrabad, it is
called cool and dry, removing flatulence, bile, thirst, heat, dysuria,
gravel, contraction of the urethra, and difficult menstruation.
For the cure of the above-mentioned complaints, it is to be given in
water; but for seminal weakness, gonorrhoea, dysuria, &c. it is to be
taken in goat's milk. The dose is six mashas. It grows in stony places.