394 Junth.--The name of a large tree, like the peepul; its leaves
like those of the tamarind; it is prickly, and its bark white.
395 Jawansa.--P. Khar Shooter. It is sweet and bitter, cool, light,
and aperient, cures bilious disorders and those of the blood. Also
vertigo. Hedysarum Alhagi.
396 Choke.--Bitter, soft, and emetic, useful in foulness of the blood,
mucus, poisons, worms, flatulence, itch and Juzam. "Maadentezerrubad."
"Choke is a medicine of India, it is a black juice, very acid, soft,
cool, and dry, increasing appetite, promoting digestion, stomachic
and astringent, lessens the secretion of bile, and injuries of the
tendons. Its corrector is sugar; its succedaneum Bejowra, dose 1/2
to 1 direm."
397 Chowlai or Chowrai, "Amaranthus Polygamus." One kind of it called
also gunder; a kind of culinary greens, used by the people of India;
cool and dry, useful in bilious disorders, mucus, and blood, and is
diuretic and aperient. It is stomachic, promotes digestion, and cures
eruptions from vitiated bile. Another kind of it is named mursai;
cool, heavy, and aperient; useful in seminal weakness, and disorders
of the three secretions. A. BokulÊ Yemania.
398 Juhi.--A small white flower, also a yellow kind. In the Dhunteri,
it is said there are three kinds of it, a white, yellow, and purple. It
has a sweet smell, and some have called it a species of jessamine. In
Delhi it obtains the name of Jahee Juhi, but these two words are,
properly speaking, distinct names for different flowers, and the
author of the Echtyar Casmi has described them separately. It is
cool and beneficial in affections of the eyes, and increases wind
and mucus. "Jasminum Auriculatum."
399 Juwar.--"Holcus sorghum." A. Zoorra. A grain; sweet to the taste,
cool and producing wind, useful in mucous disorders and bile, and in
my opinion is difficult of digestion. It is aphrodisiac, and if eaten
to excess, produces flatulent pains in the bowels. One kind is named
Mukaiy, and possesses the same properties.
400 Joonk.--A name for an Indian plant, about a yard high, more or
less; its leaves are small, and its seed about half an inch in length,
resembling a leech; sweet, cool, heavy, and useful in gonorrhoea,
cures wind, bile, and phlegm. Its leaves are very mucilaginous,
and the children of India play with the pods, sticking them to
their bodies like leeches. It grows in the rains, and usually in
uncultivated places.
401 Juhan.--A kind of anise seed, commonly called Adjwain Kermanie. I
have described its properties under the head Adjwain.
402 Jawakhar.--A name for Nuttroon; pungent, hot, and aperient; useful
in affections of wind, mucus, dropsy, pains in the bowels, dysuria,
and is lithontriptic. In the Maadentezerrubad, it is written, that it
is hot and dry, diuretic and aperient, useful in disorders of mucus,
wind, dropsy, pains in the bowels; is lithontriptic, and beneficial
in the spleen and indolent tumors.
403 Chouch.--A large and small kind; pungent and hot; astringent
and sweet; inducing costiveness; stomachic; beneficial in cholicks,
inflammatory pains in the spleen, and other pains in the bowels. It
is a favorite ingredient in many formulÊ.
404 Chehtaon.--A tree of India; aperient, and useful in disorders of
mucus and wind; also in Juzam, boils, and eruptions.
405 Jholputtur.--A kind Asheer; cool, light, and cardiac; cures
disorders of mucus and bile, and diminishes the volume of blood.
406 Cherakakoli or Chershookla; also Chermudera; sweet, cool, heavy,
aphrodisiac, and useful in disorders of blood, bile, heart-burn,
dryness of the mouth, thirst, fever, emaciation and dropsy.
In the Dhunteri, it is also said to promote digestion, and to
be pleasant in flavor, and agreeable in its effects; to cure
suppression of urine and pains in the chest. It also is used as a
cephalic. It is said to cure affections of mucus, Juzam and worms,
and to cause an increase of bile; it is commonly known by the name
of Nuckchickenie. Vide N.