808 Goondroo or Goonderuk. A name for Koondur, a gum resembling
Mastich, but more red; it cures disorders of wind, mucus, and fever;
restrains perspiration; is aphrodisiac; strengthens memory; gives
tone to the stomach, urinary bladder, brain.
809 Googul.--Amygris Agalocha (Roxb.) sweet and bitter, hot and
aperient; increases appetite; increases the bulk of the solids, and
is aphrodisiac; reunites fractured bones, discusses indurations;
used in disorders of wind, mucus, blood, boils, eruptions,
ill-conditioned ulcers, seminal weakness, Juzam, Soorkhbad, debility,
emaciation, sweating sickness, acne, and swellings. The older
it is the more effectual. It forms an ingredient in all favorite
formulÊ. A. Mukul. One kind is called Bhainsia Googul.
810 Goondinie.--A common fruit of Hindostan, of a red color, and fine
coat, about the size of the Khalsa, or larger, and more oval. It is
aperient, suppurant, and vermifuge. It is sweet and cool; of use in
cough and flatulence, but if taken in quantity, produces nausea.
811 Gooha.--A name for Perestpirnie; also the name of an insect like
the cricket, but larger; it makes much noise in the rains.
812 Goolur.--"Ficus Glomerata." A common fruit; when young, it is
green, but when ripe, it becomes red, and in this state it is filled
with small insects; it is said that if eaten without being opened,
it will be found beneficial for the eyes. It is called cool and dry;
some say hot and moist: but in my opinion it is cool and moist,
and decreases bile. My father prescribed it in its unripe state in
laxities of the bowels, and also in bleeding piles. The physicians of
India have described it as astringent; it is slow of digestion. The
bark of the tree is useful in ulcers, and as an external application
in severe bruises. Water drank after its use, produces pain in
the bowels. The Goolur eat with barley-meal or sugar, is useful in
giddiness and heat in the liver. Its milk applied to boils, hasten
suppuration or resolution.
Maadentezerrubad.
Goolur is cool and moist; useful in bilious complaints, heat, thirst,
and running at the nose from heat. The decoction of the bark removes
poison from wounds inflicted by the claws of the tiger, cat, or other
animal. The root bruised in water is useful in dysentery, in a dose
of two direms.
813 Goonma.--"Pharnaceum mollugo." The plant grows in waste and wild
places, and is very common. It is about a yard high, and grows in the
rains; it is many-flowered; and when young they are of a red color,
but become grey when dry, and full of small holes; they are round
and curled.
814 Koonda.--Koonda, called also Pita. A. Midjdubeh, and in
P. Puzdubeh. It is a creeper; its leaves like the Gourd leaf, or
larger; its fruit twice as large as a melon. When unripe, it is
cooling, and useful in bilious disorders and wind; it increases
mucus. When ripe, it is sweet and pungent; it is equal in its
properties; light; creates appetite; assists digestion; useful in
disorders of the stomach and of the three secretions. The fibres of
its root, its leaves, and branches, are sweet; beneficial in disorders
of wind and mucus; are lithontriptic: the soft part of the fruit is
sweet, removes gravel and other disorders of the urinary bladder;
cures bilious disorders, and is aphrodisiac. The particular mode
of administering it, I have described in my other works. It is
very useful as an aphrodisiac, and for increasing the bulk of the
solids. Cucurbita Pepo.
Its sherbet is useful in all the disorders above mentioned, also in
depression of spirits from heat, in mania or disordered imagination;
increases appetite and evacuates bile.
The sherbet is thus prepared:
A piece is cut off from the end of the fruit, and the inside scooped
out till the hand can be admitted; this is to be filled with fine
sugar, taking care to preserve all the juice. The divided piece is
then to be re-applied, the division secured with moistened flour;
it is then placed in the sun, during the hot season, for four days,
or in the cold weather for a week. It by this process becomes acid
like oxymel; the juice is then taken out, strained, and seasoned
with cardamums, saffron, musk, and cloves, or other articles as may
be deemed proper, and preserved in bottles for use; the dose is four
tolahs, but it will not keep good beyond a week.
815 Khaer.--Vide Kut. "Acacia Catechu, Mimosa Catechu. Chadira, S." A
tree of the jungles, from which Catechu is produced. It is called
also Cudder. "One of the best applications in ulcers I ever tried, is
composed of Catechu, Camphor, and white lead, in equal parts."--Trans.
816 Geerehti.--A plant, about a yard high, or less; the largest kind
is named Geerehta, also Mahabela. Its leaves are larger, as well
as the tree, than the Geerehtee; but the latter is to be preferred
as a medicine. It is sweet, cool, moist, and astringent, useful in
Soorkhbad, disorders of bile, affections of the uterus, and clears
the complexion.
817 Kherie.--An earth of a white color used in cleaning houses;
one kind of it is called Goorboghan.
818 Kyrnie.--One kind of it is named Chupuk. It is the fruit of a
very large tree, of a yellow color, about the size of a date, but
thicker; both kinds are cool and moist, heavy and tonic; useful in
thirst, delirium, heaviness of the head, and disorders of all the
secretions. If the kernel is bruised in water and applied to the
eyes, it will remove opacities of the cornea--this I know from my
grand-father's experience.
In my opinion, it is cardiac and stomachic, and gently astringent;
when ripe it is very generally useful. Some have called it hot in the
second and dry in the first degree. If eaten when unripe, there is fear
of its producing cholic. Its corrector is dhaie. The kernel is bitter.