553 Soocherakhar.--The common Sedjee, (impure carb. of soda.) This
name is given to the purer sorts. If 3 mashas be mixed with a cupful
of dhaie, it is useful in cholicks. If mixed with lime juice, it is
used to write on stone, and the stone placed on a slow fire as long
as you can snap your fingers 100 times, and then taken off, when the
writing will be found white and permanent. The physician Nouruddee
has mentioned this to be the case.
554 Sedarth.--Pungent and bitter, hot and dry; cures disorders of
mucus, itch, Juzam, apthÊ; is vermifuge, and promotes appetite,
but causes diffusion of the bile in the blood, and its consequent
disorders. The green leaves are heavy and cool. In my opinion they
are hot, and obstruct the flow of urine, increase indigestion, and
disorders of the three secretions. The above is a white kind of Sersom,
the name taken from the Sanscrit.
555 Sud Sohaung.--The name of a red flower in India; its leaves
three-cornered, serrated; it is cool, and beneficial in disorders
from poisons, bile, blood; in dropsy and nausea; 3 mashas of this
bruised and taken with water is useful in gonorrhoea.
556 Suda Khar.--A salt from a grass, very hot, and is used for
cleansing lardaceous matter from sores; it increases the opening in
boils, but decreases strength.