820 Ghora.--P. Asp. The horse; its meat is sweet to the taste, but
bitter in digestion. It is light, creates appetite, increases bile and
mucus, beneficial in disorders of wind, and increases aphrodisia. It
is generally tonic, and strengthens the eyes. I have often eat of it,
and believe it to be hot and tonic, but it is hurtful to those of hot
temperament. In some countries, it is used as food, and it was so used
by Vizier Nawab Kumruddin Khan. I have remarked, that when used in
this country as food by the natives of other countries, it produces
a fermentation in the blood, and consequent eruptions in the mouth
and tongue. Its properties are particularly noticed in Yunani works,
and I have conversed with many who considered the milk of the mare
excellent as a stomachic and aphrodisiac.
821 Khutmul.--P. Saas. A. Fusafush. It is bred in beds or other
furniture. Its smell is very useful in epilepsy; bruised in water
and used as an injection into the urethra, it will be found useful
in suppression of urine.
822 Kujoor.--Phoenix dactylifera or Phoenix Silvestris or
Khurjoor. A. Kittub. It has many fruits, even to the number of many
hundreds: in its properties it is very similar to the Pind-Kajoor.
823 Khaperia.--A. Tooti. P. Sungbusseri. It is useful in affections of
the eyes and eye sight. Its powder beneficial for cleaning and healing
ulcers. Its ointment I have noticed in my other publications. I have
known a person who used it commonly as a tonic to the stomach, and for
correcting laxities of the bowels. It is also used in Indian Recipes,
but I have never seen that any physician of celebrity recommended
its use.
824 Keera or Kheera. One kind of this is bitter, but both are
cool and dry, diuretic, and aperient; useful in disorders of bile,
lithontriptic, and beneficial in suppression of urine. The ripe fruit
is sweet and little astringent. The Balum-kheera is a kind of this,
but of less efficacy. The large kind, from its efficacy and scarcity,
was usually sent to the emperor by the Marwar Rajah. It is highly
spoken of for the cure of Remittent Fever.
825 Khand.--Heavy, creating appetite, tonic, aperient; useful in
thirst, general heat, delirium, disorders of bile and wind; but if
eaten to excess it produces bile.
826 Khylakhylie.--A name for Silleekha. Its rind is hard and thick,
and of a round shape; it is of a reddish clay color. It is the bark
of a tree; some say it is not the Silleekha, but that it nearly
resembles it. It forms an ingredient in formulÊ for strengthening
the loins and kidnies. It dries up the vagina, and is used by women
in the cold season as an ingredient in Peendie.
827 Ghekwaar or Ghwar. "Aloe Perfoliata, W. Ghrita Cumari and Taruni,
S. Elwa (the gum), H. Musebber, A. Suc d'Aloes (the gum), F. Glausinde
Aloe, G. Aloe, I. Aloe, Sp." It is the Sibr plant, and is in height
about a yard, becoming small towards the top; it is full of juice of
an offensive smell; it (the leaf) is serrated on the edges, and is of a
green color. It is bitter, cool, and aperient, useful in affections of
the spleen and liver, disorders of mucus, bile, blood, fever, blisters,
and hardness of the skin; and slightly increases bile. If rubbed with
water on the hands, fire may be held with impunity. Its juice is well
known as a medicine, mixed with anise seed; it is excellent in pains
of the bowels. I have written more of its virtues in my other works,
and the prescription there mentioned is excellent in all disorders
from cold. The pulp of the leaf with alum and opium is excellent in
ophthalmia; its juice dropt into the eye.
828 Goongchee.--"Abrus Precatorius. Gooncha, H. Gunja, S. The
seed called Retti, H. Rectica, S. The root of the plant coincides
very exactly in appearance, taste, and medicinal qualities with the
liquorice root, and is sold for it in the bazar; vide Glycine Abrus,
Linn, Flem."
Maadentezerrubad.
Goongchee, called also Retti, is hot and dry; its dose one direm. In
the opinion of the people of India, it is cool and dry in the third
degree. It is emetic, and violently purgative, and is considered a
poison. If the Goongchee is reduced to a coarse powder, moistened
with water, and bruised and fried in sweet oil, till it is dissolved;
this oil applied in the morning to the head, and washed off at night,
and this repeated for 21 days, it will greatly increase the growth
of the hair; its leaves and branches thus prepared have the same effect
If the Red Goongcha, having its bark peeled off, be coarse pounded
to the quantity of eight ounces, and boiled in eight pounds of cow's
milk, till only three pounds remain, then coagulated, and its butter
extracted; the butter will reproduce hair on any parts which may have
been deprived of it by venereal or other disease, and the effect will
take place by its continuance for a fortnight. The white Goonchee,
in the quantity of two direms, given internally for three days,
with sugar, to a woman, will render her barren.
829 Khelowrie.--The name for the composition of certain pills, about
the size of Peepul seed, sold covered with silver leaf; they are highly
scented, and improve the smell of the mouth; they enliven the spirits
and strengthen the stomach. They are made of Kuth in this manner:
The Catechu is first mixed well with water, and the precipitate
taken for use. This is boiled in cow's milk, or sometimes in the
above-mentioned water; then Musk Amber and Rose-water are added,
or the distilled water of Keora, and from this the pills are formed.
830 Khull.--A name for Kus'boosum seem; the refuse of Till. It is
heavy and flatulent, weakens eye-sight; is aphrodisiac; and is used
as a soap to remove grease from the hands.
831 Khopra.--A name for Narzeel. Its properties mentioned in Yunani
works.
832 Khewumberie.--The wild fig; useful in white leprosy. All
Indian physicians use the root in this disease, both internally and
externally; some have called it hot, others cold; it is likewise
named Kewumber.
833 Khesoo.--A root; the leaf of its tree resembles a tiger's
claws. Its flower is yellow; the tree large and common all over the
jungles, and becomes of a red color like fire.
834 Khynth.--A tree of India; its fruit acid like the apple when
unripe; it is light; cures thirst, hiccup, disorders of wind and
bile. It clears the throat; is difficult of digestion, and strengthens
the stomach, and is lithontriptic; beneficial in fulness of the head,
and is cool and dry in the second degree.
835 Gheyd.--A kind of Vulture. Its flesh is beneficial in disorders of
the eyes; it is a bird of prey; hot and dry: it is of a black color,
though some have described it as grey. The Baaz and Joorra are used
in hawking. A. Okab, P. Aal.
836 Kinchua.--A name of Kherrateen. The earth-worm. It is used in
oil and fomentation as an aphrodisiac, and for this purpose the most
powerful is the Lumbricus discharged from the human subject.
Maadentezerrubad.
It is said, that if the Kinchua be dried and mixed with dhaie, it will
contract the vagina. If it be mixed with sweet oil, and boiled, and
in this Zaftroomie (pitch) be dissolved, and the mixture externally
applied, it will increase the size of the male organ. From the worm a
kind of copper is procured, which is called in India Paak Tamba. If
put in the mouth it has this effect, that the taste of the neeb, or
pungency of chunam will not be perceptible. It is an antidote to all
animal as well as vegetable poisons, and hydrophobia; useful in want
of power in the digestive organs and pains in the bowels. Its powder
is useful in the Soorkhbad, and kept in the mouth, prevents thirst;
and if kept about the person a snake will not approach or bite. Thus
prepared:--The fresh worms are taken and put into a copper vessel,
over them is poured lime juice, and the vessel well luted, is placed
on the fire; when well boiled, the medicine will be found adhering
to the top and sides of the vessel.
Another mode.
Take of white lead and borax, each eight direms; turmeric and
bullock's bile, each four direms; worms and honey, each 24 direms;
mix and fry the whole in cow's ghee, and when fried, make the mass
into balls. Place these balls in an earthen vessel on the fire, and
by means of bellows increase the heat, and keep it so, for some time;
and when taken off the fire, the Paak Tamba will be found in small
grains at the bottom.
837 Gyndha.--Rhinoceros. A four-footed beast, larger than the
buffaloe. Its skin black and indented; it is very hard, and used for
making shields, which are held in great estimation. It has a horn
near its nose. Its flesh is used in disorders of wind, and decreases
urine and fÊces. The smoke of the horn while burning is excellent in
the cure of piles, and for producing easy labour; drinking water from
a cup made of the horn will also cure the piles. P. Kurguddun.
838 Kenkra.--Its flesh is cool, and strengthens the seven component
parts of the body; is aphrodisiac, and remedies profuse discharge of
the menses. "The Crab."
839 Kesur or Kunkum. Saffron. It is pungent and hot; exhilirates
the spirit; useful in hiccup and in affections of the skin from a
taint in the blood; it is beneficial in head-ache; allays vomiting;
is vermifuge; cures boils and disorders of the three secretions,
and cleans the complexion. P. Zaffraan.
840 Kyte.--When unripe, it is light; induces costiveness; used in
disorders of the three secretions. When ripe, it becomes of a bitterish
sweet, and is useful in dropsy, eruptions of the mouth, and in wind. It
is heavy, clears the throat, is slow of digestion, and allays thirst.
841 Kytiputtrie.--Its leaves resemble the Kyte; it is hot and pungent;
used in disorders from poison, phlegm in the throat, and seminal
weakness.
842 Kyloot.--Cool, astringent; useful in eruptions of the mouth,
in mucus, and flatulent disorders.
843 Keora.--Pandanus Odoratissimus, (Roxb.) It is like the Ketki,
but it is twice as large; its leaves are prickly, and about the
same thickness throughout. It is in fact like a head of Indian
corn before its leaves recede. It has a very powerful, penetrating,
diffusible scent, more perceptible at a distance than when close;
and after it is dried the smell remains. If it is put amongst linen,
the smell will adhere to it for a length of time. The plant is about
12 feet high; its leaves resemble the Juwar, and are long and trefoil,
with prickles upon all of them; it flowers when four years old. Earth
is thrown up round the roots every year. In the Deccan and in Behar,
it is very common. A distilled water is made from its flowers, which
is cardiac and stomachic.
844 Kethki.--Also Pandanus Odoratissimus, for it is a kind of
Keora. The Sirrunkethkie is also a species of this.
845 Kewanch.--Sweet, hot, heavy, and aphrodisiac; produces an increased
secretion of semen. Its seed is useful in disorders of wind, and is
also aphrodisiac. It is a name for Kabeakudje, and that is a species of
Curruf's junglee. It is also a name for Dolichos Pruriens or Cow-itch.
846 Kela.--Musa Paradisiaca. The Plantain or Banana. The tree is
straight, about the height of a spear. Its leaves, when young,
come out in the form of a round ruler, and are soft as satin,
and much resembling it, with cross marks resembling the plaits of
cloth. The leaf when expanded is very long and broad. Its flower is
a hard substance, of a pyramidal shape, and covered with leaves of a
dark-red color. Every tree which has flowered bears 70 or 80 plantains,
formed in distinct rows round a centre stem, and the tree bears only
once. And the fruit ripe, the tree must be cut down, to leave room
for others to spring up from the same root. There are many kinds of
this fruit. The best kind is small, and called Imrutbean; and the
people of India have said that the camphor is produced from it: but
those who say so are ignorant, the camphor tree is very different. Its
root is tonic; beneficial in disorders of bile, blood, and mucus, and
in gonorrhoea; but it weakens aphrodisia. The fruit is sweet, cool,
moist, and heavy; increases flatulence and mucus; useful in disorders
of bile, blood, wind, and heat of the chest. A. Mooz. The natives of
India dress the unripe fruit with meat, or even dress it alone; and
the Hindoos dress the heart of the branches for food. This I have
found very effectual as an aphrodisiac and for increasing semen,
and as a tonic to the brain. It weakens the stomach, and is heavy;
its corrector is cardamum seed. The Yunani physicians say, that its
correctors are honey, gum, and ginger.