848 Keekur or Babool. "Acacia Arabica, W. Babool, H. Barbura,
S. Babool ka Goond (the gum), H. The bark, like that of most of
the Acacias, is a powerful astringent, and is used as a substitute
for Oak bark in tanning by leather-manufacturers in India. Gomme
Arabique, F. Arabischen Gummi, G. Gomma Arabica, I. Vullam pisin,
Tam." A common prickly tree of the jungles; its leaves very numerous
and small; it is of two kinds, a large and a small. The young trees
have very numerous prickles, the old trees have fewer; its bark kept
in the mouth relieves cough. Its leaves heated and applied to the eye
removes heat and inflammation; both kinds are astringent, hot, and
pungent, useful in cough, mucus, and diseases proceeding from mucus;
restrain laxatives of the bowels, and are useful in piles. The young
leaves infused for a night in water, in the morning bruised in the
water, and this drank, will be found very useful in gonorrhoea and
itchiness of the bladder.
849 Keet or Keetie. The refuse or scoriÊ of iron; it is sweet, pungent,
and hot; beneficial in wind, worms, cholicks, seminal weakness,
and swellings.
850 Gehoon.--A name for Gundum. A. Hinta. It is oleaginous and slow
of digestion; facilitates the junction of fractured bones. Is soft,
tonic, useful in mucus, and increases semen. Its oil is beneficial in
Daad and swellings from vitiated bile. The oil is thus made:--White
Gehoon is moistened for a night in water, and in the morning the oil
is extracted.
851 Geroo.--It is sweet, astringent, and cool; useful in ulcers;
clears the skin; beneficial in piles, heat, and incipient phlegmon. It
resembles the Gilermonie, and is often substituted for it.
852 Laak.--Common lac is a kind of wax, formed by the Coccus Lacca:
cool, moist; clears the color of the skin; is aphrodisiac; useful
in disorders of mucus, blood, bile; and is vermifuge. It also cures
boils, eruptions, acne, bruises, and Juzam, and removes possession
by evil spirits. I have found it to be very aphrodisiac.
This is the gum of the Baer tree. There is one kind of Seed Lac,
which when melted becomes like this.