590 Sindoor.--The red oxide of lead, used externally. "Sindoora,
S." Hot; cures acne and Juzam, and disorders of poison, boils, and
eruptions; clears wounds; promotes the junction of broken bones. The
ointment of this is very excellent in sores. The receipt is to be
found in many other works.
591 Soomboolkhar.--"The white Oxide of Arsenic." It is white and like
alum in color; it ought to be chosen thus: when rubbed on a crow's
feather and put over the fire, if it does not smoke, and the feather
becomes white, it is good. A. Toorabalhalik. There are six kinds of
this, one named Sunkia, the third Godunta, the fourth Darma, the fifth
Huldia; but each will be noticed under its own proper head. The Yunani
physicians do not allow this to form a part of their prescriptions,
as they believe it destroys the vital principle; and such medicines as
are deleterious in their effects, such as opium, they always exhibit
with correctors, for this reason such remedies are seldom noticed or
used by them. The physicians of India, on the contrary, find these
drugs more effectual in many disorders than others of less power,
and such the calx of metals. For this reason too, I am in the habit
of seldom giving these remedies internally, but I usually confine
my use of them to external application, and as aphrodisiacs, which
I prescribe to a few friends, who may have derived no benefit from
Yunani prescriptions. It is better, however, to use as few of them
as possible. The sixth kind is Hurtaal.