419 Jhirberie.--"Jujube." A name for wild Baer; is acid, cool, useful
in bile, cardiac, and astringent: if dried and pounded, it is called
B˙rchun; this possesses all its properties, but is more astringent.
420 Jyaphupp.--Another kind of it is Tersindiapurni; its seed is made
into beads. It is also called Surupjea; it is astringent, strengthens
the hair of the head, and darkens its color.
421 CheehurÊ.--A tree of India; there is another kind called Choobnuz,
and a third kind S·toona. Its wood smells strong and rancid; it is
hot and dry in the 3rd degree; it is very oleaginous and greasy. If
its juice be expelled by heat and collected, it is excellent
as an application in paralysis, and it also cleanses large foul
ulcers. Its milk is pungent and heating, and it is an active poison,
hot and dry in the 4th degree; applied to the skin, it blisters; it
is used in swellings from cold. Its wood is used internally in loss
of voluntary motion or insensibility and epilepsy, and it is said to
be lithontriptic. It injures the lungs, and its corrector is oil of
almonds and gum. The dose is 3 mashas.
422 Jeewuk.--Cool and aphrodisiac; increases semen and mucus; cures
disorders of bile, wind, heart-burn, emaciation, and hectic fever.
423 Cheenuk.--A tree of Hindostan; hot; useful in boils and eruptions,
affections of the heart and disorders of wind; it is astringent.
424 Jeewuntie or JeÈw˙nie or JÈw·; cool, sweet, moist, light;
strengthens the system and eyesight; is astringent; useful in
disorders of mucus, wind, and bile. It forms an ingredient in
all favorite formulÊ, and it removes feverish heat. The people of
India use its greens in the beginning of the cold weather as food;
the small Jeewuntie being considered as one of the best of culinary
vegetables. It is called also Saag Sherista. The large kind is named
BheÈndoorie, from its more limited mode of spreading its branches,
and the small kind, for the contrary reason, is called BÈldoÛrie:
this spreads to a great distance, and creeps along whatever it comes
in contact with. The fruit is like the cucumber.
The above is also the name of a flower, which in the Dhunteri is said
to be aphrodisiac, and to clear the voice.