803 Gokhroo also Kunthphill; cures difficulty of breathing, cough,
and suppression of urine. Is lithontriptic; useful in affections of
the heart and wind.
A. Khussuk. It is of two kinds, a cultivated and wild. Its plant
is like the melon; its branches spreading widely on the ground. Its
fruit is hard and triangular, with prickles on its angles; thus it is
called Gokhroo. P. Kharkhusuk. There is a larger kind called Gokhroo
Dekanee. In the Dhunterri, it is said to be beneficial in the three
secretions, to create appetite, beneficial in dysentery and pains of
the bowels, to increase semen, induce corpulency, to be cool, sweet,
and aphrodisiac, tonic, useful in seminal weakness, gonorrhoea,
and pains in the urinary bladder. "Tribulus Lanuginosus."