212 Benowla.--The Cotton-seed. Moist, and heavy; causes bile, increases
seminal secretion and milk, both in the human and brute creation.
213 Punchcheer.--Name of a compound made of the milk of five trees;
viz. Burr, Peepul, Palass peepul, Goolur, Pakur; some, in place
of Palass peepul substitute the Seriss. It is astringent, useful
in boils, eruptions, swellings, and sudden inflammatory eruptions;
(Eczema Rubrum;) also affections of the vagina. It increases seminal
secretion and milk, and promotes the union of fractured limbs. The
leaves of the above-mentioned trees are cool, light, and astringent;
very beneficial in disorders of mucus, wind, and the blood; their
fruit produces swellings of the belly, but is useful in eruptions
caused by superabundance of bile and disorders of mucus.
214 Pungekool.--A formula of four ingredients; viz. Peepul, Peepulajab,
Chittea, and dried Ginger. It creates appetite, and is recommended
in disorders of wind, mucus, swellings of the belly, produced by
affections of the urinary bladder, and bad-gola.
215 Punjemool.--Two kinds, called large and small, by way of
distinction. The large is composed of Bale, Aginmunth, Padill,
K·shmerie Sheonak. Its taste is bitter and astringent; it is light,
hot, and stomachic; dissolves animal fat, cures disorders of phlegm,
wind, and difficulty of breathing. The small is composed of Gookhroo,
Salpurbi, Bureshtpurbi, Bereta, Rutai. Its taste is sweet, and its
properties are in equilibrium. It strengthens the system in general,
and is useful in disorders of bile and wind.
216 Bindaal.--A creeping plant, which is found on trees; it resembles
the Kusseroo, and its seed is dark-colored, like those of the Till. Its
capsule is somewhat larger than that of the Kusseroo, covered with a
black rind, which also covers a second. It is very beneficial in the
Zaerbad of horses; is pungent, and creates appetite, and is useful
in wind and mucus. It is common to hills, plains, and ditches. In
the Maadentezerrabad it is said to be a cure for hydrophobia, in the
quantity of two fruits mixed with black pepper. It is said to be
an Indian fruit like the black Hurrhe, light, bitter and elastic:
its rind is hard; and the best kind of it is yellow. It is hot and
dry in the 3rd degree. If pounded and sifted, and after a motion
introduced into the rectum, it will in a few days cause the separation
of hemorrhoids and their discharge. A fumigation of these seeds
is also very beneficial in external piles. If they are bruised and
mixed with cow's ghee, and introduced into the nose, they will cure
irritability of temper and epilepsy, and remove all complaints arising
from wind. If two or three seeds be moistened with water for a night,
and in the morning two or three drops be introduced into the nose,
it will produce the discharge of that yellow fluid from the brain
which causes the disease named Pirbaal, or loss of sensation in the
olfactory nerves.
217 Bindeakurkotheki.--A name for Banjekakora, so called from its
barrenness; pungent, useful in poisons and cough.