586 Sunkaholie.--A small plant, with very thin branches like common
grass; its leaves are very small; it is a creeper on the ground;
its flower white and small, and looks very beautiful in the evenings
or in moonlight nights. It is astringent, hot, and moist; aperient
and aphrodisiac; increases memory, understanding, and perception,
and likewise discrimination; cures seminal weakness, and forms an
ingredient in all favorite formulÊ; cures gonorrhoea; and I have
often used the bark of its root as an aphrodisiac and for increasing
the consistence of semen. Some have called this Soorch.
587 Sunn.--"Crotalaria Juncea." A plant, the bark of which is used as
hemp; it is usually sown around cotton fields. It is of two kinds,
the second called Rasni. It is pungent and acid, and its leaves are
used as a culinary vegetable; it is cool, heavy, and astringent. Its
flower is used as an astringent in lochial discharge.
588 Sunkh.--A white shell of a very large size; cool, light;
strengthens the eye-sight, cures mucous disorders, and those of bile
and blood. A. Hulzoom. There is a small kind called Cowrie; if this
be burnt and calcined, it will quickly dry up sores by being sprinkled
over them.