763 Kumruk.--"Averrhoa Carambola," or Kumruka. A large tree, with many
pointed leaves, which when full grown are longer than the Singtirra
leaf, of a green color and soft texture. The fruit is common and
three-cornered; they are of an acid sweetness, and produced in the
cold season, and make delicious sherbet; cool, astringent; useful in
bile and wind, also in disorders of phlegm. From their acidity, the
fruit are injurious to the tongue. This may be corrected by eating
them with salt or lime.
764 Gumbhar.--Sweet, hot, heavy, and produces wind; useful in disorders
of bile, blood, and pains in the bowels, and induces costiveness. Its
fruit is heavy and tonic; clears the hair of the head; increases
seminal secretion; cures disorders of bile, wind, hectic fever, thirst,
and foulness of the blood; is diuretic, and forms an ingredient in
all famous prescriptions: called also Gumbharie or Gumbheer.