693 Kapoorbile.--A flower; its leaves and root resembling the saffron
flower; it is brought from Europe.
694 Goobrowla also Goobreyla. A. Khumfusa. P. Jaab. It is described
in all Yunani works.
695 Kapithar Jug.--A kind of Soorinjan; pungent, cool, and dry;
increases general heat and bile; cures disorders of blood and mucus;
also removes daad; is vermifuge, and is an antidote to poison.
696 Kupass or Kurpass. "Gossypium herbaceum." It is sweet, hot, and
light; cures disorders of wind; it is the cotton tree; some call it
cool. Its seed increases the secretion of animal milk, removes bile,
mucus, heat, thirst, fatigue, epilepsy, &c. The wild species is cool,
and increases the acuteness of taste and cures ulcers. It is also
called Karis or Karpassie.
Maadentezerrubad.
Kupass is the cotton tree; hot and moist; cures asthma, cough,
costiveness; loosens the chest. The cotton burnt and applied to ulcers,
dries them up, blown into the nose stops bleeding; also bleeding of
the gums. Should any one have eaten dhatura, and become insensible,
four direms of the seeds bruised in water, and given to drink will
remove the cause. It is also an antidote to the poison of opium,
bhang, snakes, the root of dhatura, scorpions, &c. in the quantity
of seven direms.
697 Kubab Cheenee.--It is pungent and bitter; promotes digestion;
increases appetite; improves the taste; cures affections of wind,
phlegm, paralysis of the tongue, and clears the voice. "Cubebs,
Piper Cubeba, Murr." Excellent in gonorrhoea virulenta.