747 Kukora.--The fruit of a shrub of India, smaller than the Kurela;
it has many hair-like fibres of a green colour over its surface, and
it has numerous seeds. Its properties are the same as the Kurela. It
is useful in that eruption which takes place on the face in puberty;
beneficial in fever and phlegm, and creates appetite. One kind of
it is called Banje Kakora. It is bitter, an antidote to poisons;
useful in that eruption of the face called acne punctata. Its root
is used in Zaerbad, in discussing swellings, and in the bites of all
noxious reptiles, and it is also of benefit in cough. Some have said,
that this is the wild Kurela, but this is not the fact, for the wild
Kurela is essentially different and more resembles the garden sort.
748 Kookra.--"Wild fowl." P. Deek. It is hot, moist, heavy,
aphrodisiac; used in disorders of wind; is tonic; produces semen and
increases mucus. Its flesh is astringent to the taste; dry and heavy;
and those found near rivers are hot and aphrodisiac, and increase
mucus.
749 Kookrie.--The female of the above. A. Dejaje: the properties
the same.
750 Kukrie.--"Cucumis Utilissimus." Unripe, it is sweet and cool,
heavy, cardiac, and astringent. In my opinion it is aperient, creates
appetite, and removes bilious disorders.
751 Gugundool.--The best kind of this is the Kumbi; it is eaten wasted
in ghee, with salt and condiments.
752 Googeerun or Gugeeroo. A plant from 1 to 1 1/2 yards high; the
branches very thin, the leaves like the Nirkut; it is purgative, and
when ripe, it is heavy; recommended in wind, blood, and affections
of mouth.
753 Kukrownda.--The common Kurrownda. The plant is half a yard or
more in height, its leaves like the tobacco; but smaller. It has an
offensive smell, much increased by being rubbed betwixt the finger;
it grows near ruins or in waste places, and is found in the rains. It
is a kind of Bhangra, and has the name of Kokurbangra; it is bitter,
pungent; useful in fevers and disorders of the blood and mucus. If
bruised in water, and the water given as a clyster to children, it
will remove ascarides, and if three drops be dropped into each ear,
it will cure intermittents. It is very beneficial in bleeding piles,
both internally and externally. If one direm of the leaves be taken
in water, and the bruised leaves applied to the piles, it will effect
a cure.
754 Gillo.--"Menispermum Glabrum," (vide Goorcha,) or Vaoutvellee or
Imrutlutta, or Jurnasnie, (a febrifuge,) or Goorajie, or Goondunie. It
is bitter, astringent, and sweet, and in digestion hot, light; inducing
costiveness; tonic; increases appetite; beneficial in jaundice and
Juzam; also in acne, cracks in the skin, nausea, fevers, and bilious
disorders. It forms an ingredient in all favorite formulÊ. It has
been said to be cold. In my opinion it is either, according as it is
prescribed with other medicines. I have given it in continued fever,
in the quantity of one direm, cut small and infused in water for
a night, with great success. The Hindoos give a decoction of it in
fevers. I have given it in various ways in gonorrhoea, as a tonic,
an aphrodisiac, &c. Take of Bunslochun and Sut Gillo, each one masha,
mix and give in intermittents, or with cardamoms. My father used
it in pills made up with conserve of roses, with great efficacy,
in fevers of the continued kind; also with the whey of Kasni. Its
powder is likewise used with tin in gonorrhoea, but I have written
more of this in my other works. To make refined or Sut Gillo--
Take the Gillo, cut it in small pieces, and squeeze out the juice
into a vessel, then add plain water, and strongly mix them together,
let them remain thus for 24 hours, then throw away the clear water,
and dry the precipitate for use.
755 Gulhar.--"Nymphea Nilambo, Linn. Nilumbium Speciosum, W." The
flower of the Kawul (Lotus). It is cool, dry, heavy, and astringent,
and shuts up the chest. The centre of the flower, or yellow
fructification, is called Kesur, or Kinjeluk; it is cool; induces
costiveness; useful in bleeding piles; also in disorders of bile and
mucus. Its seed is usually called Kawulgutta; they are produced in
the hot season; they are sweet, cool; beneficial in bilious disorders,
foulness of blood, general heat, and increase mucus and wind. I have
given them in the diarrhoea of infants, mixed with the water which
they drank, with great benefit. The green part of the seed bruised in
water, I have also given to children with great good effect in wind
and diarrhoea. It is likewise given in eruptions of the mouth. The
stem of the flower and root are cool and dry; aphrodisiac, astringent,
and cure disorders of bile, blood, and general heat. The flowers are
of two kinds: one opens to the sun, and accompanies him round as
he moves, and shuts its leaves when he disappears; this is white,
with a red tinge, six-leaved, the yellow centre fructification, in
the shape of an inverted cone. Its seed is sweet and cool; clears
the complexion; of use in disorders of mucus, bile, blood, thirst,
general heat, Juzam, and blisters. It is an antidote to poisons,
and beneficial in acne of all kinds.
The other kind has four leaves, of a white color, opens to the moon,
and accompanies her, in progress, as the other does the sun; but does
not shut on her disappearance. The red and blue kinds, if they have
any degree of whiteness, are called Komode or Komoodutti; these names
are in allusion to their property of flowering by the moon's influence,
but they are more seldom met with. The blue is called also Neeloofir.