731 Goor.--It is sweet to the taste and a little pungent; light,
aperient; creates appetite; increases bile and swellings of the body;
produces worms and cures disorders of wind; strengthens the system;
is diuretic and cardiac. P. Kund Sia.
732 Kurr.--"Carthamus Tinctoria." A name of Masphir or
Kussumb. P. Kussukdana. A. Koortub. It is of a white color like
peas, and a little pointed; it is very common; removes phlegm, and
is aperient.
733 Karela.--"Momordica Charantia." A common culinary fruit, of a
green or yellowish color, and encloses numerous seeds. It is about
two or three inches long, and very irregular in the surface. It is
in its properties cool and light; some say hot and heavy, and some
call it equal. It is pungent and laxative; beneficial in piles,
eruptions of the mouth, disorders of the blood, jaundice, panroque,
phlegm, seminal weakness, and it is vermifuge. Its name is said to
be Kassaul hemar. In my opinion it is very drying, by reason of its
heating quality: when dressed with onions, it is less heavy as food. It
has the effect of strengthening the stomach weakened from cold. Its
root taken, commencing with one masha and increasing to seven, will
cure the venereal disease. The wild kind is named Kaarbellie. It is
cool, bitter, light, and aperient; cures disorders of bile, blood,
phlegm, black bile, jaundice, wind, marasmus, seminal weakness,
and worms. Another kind of this produced in gardens is of a white
color, and more long than the other; its coat is thin, and it is
the best of all the varieties: there are many ways of dressing it,
but with onions it is the best and most aphrodisiac; without onions,
its effects are not so powerful, and it is less heating.
734 Kirkund.--The small Baer, called also Nazookbadun; it is moist
and heavy; sweet, and cures disorders of bile and wind. It is also
called Jhirberrie. There is a smaller kind, that is more sweet,
and grows in gardens.
735 Kora.--A name for the Inderjow tree; it is very bitter and
astringent; cool and dry; creates appetite; cures bilious disorders and
foulness of blood, also disorders of mucus; and removes obstructions
in the pylorus from viscid mucus; useful in indigestion and Juzam;
restrains hemorrhage from piles and diarrhoea.
736 Kurni.--"Mimusops Kauki." A fruit of the hills; pungently
bitter and hot; cures disorders of bile and mucus, flatulence, and
is vermifuge.