713 Kutcherie.--(Cucumis Madraspatanas;) sweet, hot, light, and
soft; creates appetite; increases bile. It is called Dustumboieya,
vide Phoot. There is another fruit which bears this name, it is a
creeper, found in fields, like the Kunoorie fruit; it is pungent,
bitter; assists digestion, and increases appetite. In my opinion,
it is hot; it is eaten cut in half, and fried with salt and oil,
and greatly relished. It is thus also rendered more active in its
properties. It is used both ripe and unripe; when used with meat,
the later is easily rendered tender. It forms an ingredient in all
stomachic powders in India.
714 Kutchoor.--"Curcuma Zerumbet, (Roxb.)" Of three kinds: large, male,
and female. The large kind is also called Nerkuchoor, and the simple
word Kutchoor is generally applied to the female; the third kind is
called Kaphoor Kutcherie. The Nerkutchoor is also called Zerambeed. The
three kinds possess nearly the same properties. It is hot, light;
creates appetite; cures Juzam, piles, boils, wounds, difficulty of
breathing, Badgola, disorders of wind, and mucus, and is vermifuge.
715 Kudum.--"Nauclea Orientalis, or Kudum, and another kind called
Mohoonut; also one kind named Dhoul Kudum, and Bhoom Kudum." The
leaves and flower resemble the walnut tree; all kinds are cool,
and are useful in disorders of mucus, bile, and blood.
716 Gudha.--Its flesh is sweet, during digestion bitter. It is light,
strengthens the system, and increases bile and mucus.
717 Gudloon.--Hot, light; cures disorders of wind and mucus. Is
aperient and diuretic.
718 Goodhul Citron.--Has a flower like the poppy, and many leaves;
its leaves are like the mulberry, and it flowers every alternate
year. Its fruit is like the apple; when unripe, green, and acid, with
a little bitterness; but when fully ripe, and it has become yellow,
the bitterness does not remain; it also becomes red and sweet, but
if it remain long on the tree it again assumes a greenish hue. The
tree is like the lime tree with broad leaves. The people of India
have an idea, that if the flowers be kept in the house they produce
quarrelling and strife; the flowers are used in lowness of spirits
arising from heat. It is said, that the root of this and also that of
the Kunaer are very intoxicating. If boiled in milk, and this curdled,
it is aphrodisiac.
719 Kurna.--The flower of the above; it has four leaves, and is white
before it opens; it is shaped like an arrow-head; it has a sweet
perfume, and as such is used; a distilled water is also made from
it and an essential oil. The water is called Arukbahar, and is hot
and dry, and used in weakness of the brain; also as an aphrodisiac;
creating appetite and elevating the spirits; also in pains of the
chest, in cholics from wind, and delirium.
A little of it commenced with and constantly used for seven days,
with a little sugar, is beneficial in affections of the spleen;
it is used in Aniseed water as a lithontriptic; in an empty stomach
for the bleeding piles. It is used with musk, &c. to perfume hooka
snakes. The author of the Topha says, that this is the bud of the
Naringi, and that the distilled water of that is called Arukbahar;
but in my opinion they are distinct varieties, and in this part of
the country they distil from all. Goodhul is the name of the tree,
Kuth that of the fruit, and Kurna that of the flower.
720 Karownda.--Also Kirmidie, and a kind of this Khristnphill; the
first kind is red and white, second is white and black, and the third
entirely black, therefore called Kristnphil, from being of the color
of the god Kristna. Its flower is like the Jui; when unripe it is hot,
heavy, and acid; produces mucus and diffusion of bile: when ripe it
is sweet and less acid, light; creates appetite, and cures disorders
of wind and bile. "Carissa Carandas."
721 Kareyl.--"Capparis, the Caper plant," or Kareyr. A tree without
leaves, its branches rise from the root, and are very numerous. It
grows about the height of the Baer. It has numerous flowers, small and
three-leaved. Its flowers are boiled and eaten; its fruit made into
pickles in salt-water and oil; its fruit is at first green, then it
becomes red, and lastly black; they are about the size of the Karownda;
they are bitter, pungent, hot, aperient; useful in mucous disorders,
wind, boils, eruptions, swellings, as an antidote to poisons, and in
piles. Its flowers are beneficial in disorders of mucus and bile. My
father always recommended them in disorders arising from cold. In
consequence of their heating quality, they are useful in affections
of the joints. P. Amghyllyan.
722 Karunj.--From the "Moojerrabad Akberi." The name of a large
tree, the leaves like the lime tree, the fruit like the tamarind,
but smaller; it is hot, and discusses swellings and all pains arising
from cold; useful in lumbago, in strokes of the wind, and it is used
as a fomentation in the above disorders.
723 Gurehri.--A fruit of India, produced in the hot season; it is
a nut of a black color, and shining appearance, about the length
of the Jamalgota, but a little thinner; the kernel is white, and is
ate with salt and peepul, and much esteemed. It induces costiveness,
is aphrodisiac, and thickens semen.
724 Krishndaan.--A kind of rice; in its properties and excellence
like the Saatie.
725 Kurwanuk.--The name of a common bird; its meat is sweet and
pleasant to the taste. It frequents the banks of rivers and jungles,
but the river kind is nearly twice the size of the other.
726 Geerguth.--(Chameleon.) A. Heerbah, Un. Kalamunder,
P. Aftabperust. It resembles the lizard in its appearance. It has a
long tail, and frequently changes its color.
727 Kurkura.--(Ardea Virgo.) A species of paddy-bird, called also
Kurkhuraa; its flesh increases corpulency; is aphrodisiac, and
strengthens the system.
728 Kurinjua or Korinjeka, or Kurinjee. "Guilandina Bonduccella,
Linn. CÊsalpinia Bonduccella. Roxb. Kutkuleja, H. An excellent tonic,
and infallible in the cure of intermittents, when combined with a
decoction of Chereyta. Dose one seed, mixed with pepper, which may be
repeated every three hours." A seed, or rather nut, hard and shining;
it is of a blue or greenish color; light, round, and thick, like the
Majoo; when shaken near the ear the kernel is found loose, and when
broken, this is found whitish, like the Mukhana. Its shrub grows to
the height of a man, more or less, "but if supported, will run much
higher. It is covered with very sharp prickles, and makes the best
fence in the world perhaps." It is hot; cures piles; is vermifuge,
useful in Juzam, and its leaves are beneficial in disorders of wind,
mucus, and blood. A. Ektumkut. P. Khayeblees. Leaves used as a
fomentation in rheumatic pains.
729 Kurwara or Kurwala. A name for Amultas;
P. Phuloos. A. Khiarshimber. Discutient, aperient, and laxative. See
Yunani works.