931 Mundar.--A small shrub, of two kinds; both bitter, pungent, hot,
and laxative; useful in disorders of mucus, and increase of fat in
the abdomen, itch, and swellings; and is an antidote to poisons.
932 Moot.--P. Shasha, or Kumeer. A. Bowl. Urine. That of cows,
buffaloes, horses, goats, camels, rams, and men, is saltish and
bitter; dry, light, aperient, and cardiac; increases appetite and
relish for food; useful in general swellings; clears the brain and
all excretory passages; increases bile; beneficial in disorders of
wind, Badgola, piles, and dropsy; is vermifuge, and used in Juzam,
marasmus, flatulence, internal itchiness, and want of appetite.
Cow's is the best and most effectual. Elephant's urine is an
antidote to poisons, and generally vermifuge; useful in Juzam and
Badgola. Buffalo's, beneficial in swellings, Badgola, piles, marasmus,
and seminal weakness. Horse's is aperient; cures disorders of mucus,
and Daad. Goat's is an antidote to poisons; removes difficulty
of breathing, jaundice, and marasmus. Ram's cures emaciation,
swellings, Juzam, piles, seminal weakness, and costiveness. Ass's is
lithontriptic; useful in seminal weakness, Juzam, idiotism, internal
itchiness, and dropsy, and is vermifuge.
Human urine is an antidote to poison, and particularly tonic. When
a choice is to be made between male and female, this rule may be
observed. Of the cow, sheep, and goat, the female; of elephant, horse,
camel, and ass, the male; also the male of the human subject. Should a
person at any time feel symptoms of indigestion, and be afraid of the
consequences, a little of his own urine will relieve all unpleasant
sensations and expedite digestion, but this can only be resorted to
by people of no caste.
933 Monje.--The leaf and external fibrous covering of a kind of reed
like grass, used to make rope. It is equally cold and hot; useful in
acne, disorders of blood, diseases of the eyes, and all complaints
affecting the urinary bladder, or urethra.
934 Mooser.--Sweet, bitter, heavy; promotes appetite, cures piles
and disorders of wind; increases semen, and is an ingredient in all
tonic prescriptions. I fancy this is the Shukakool.
935 Moocherus.--"Bombax Heptaphyllum. The tree." The gum of the
Sembill tree, also so named by the author of the Dhara Shekoi, but
it is commonly understood to be the flower of the Soopearie tree. It
is cool, heavy, and astringent; increases semen; restrains diarrhoea;
increases the tone of the digestive organs; removes disorders of blood,
bile, mucus, and general heat.
Maadentezerrubad.
Moocherus is of two kinds, one according to some is the gum of the
Sahajena, and by the account of others, that of the Sembill tree. It
is red, heavy, and difficult of digestion. The other kind is the
flower of the Soopearie; both kinds are cool, dry, astringent, and
aphrodisiac; strengthen the back, kidnies, and loins; increase semen,
and lengthen aphrodisia. Its corrector is sugar and cow's ghee. The
succedaneum is Kummarkuss.
936 Mohuk also Bohuk; useful in disorders of mucus and wind, and
slightly increases bile; some have said that this is the Mowa.
937 Mokhun.--The name of a tree, hot and astringent; useful in diseases
of wind and mucus, in worms in the stomach, and pain therefrom,
rheumatic pains in the joints and bones, and its gum is aphrodisiac;
increases the bulk of the muscles, and of use in disorders of bile
and wind.
938 Moong.--"Phaseolus Mungo." And one kind, which grows wild. It
is cool, dry, light, and astringent; used in disorders of mucus and
bile; strengthens the eyes, and is fit and proper food for the sick;
it however weakens the stomach--this I know by experience. If given
to a person of weak digestive organs, it will be passed unchanged,
although other food will be digested. I therefore conclude that it
is too difficult of assimilation to be used with advantage, as here
recommended. It weakens aphrodisia. P. Maash.
939 Moth.--A grain of India; cool; some say in equilibrium. It is
dry, quick of digestion, and if used with cow's ghee, its flavor will
be much improved. It cleanses the blood, is sweet during digestion,
relieves wind, and removes laxities of the bowels; some indeed have
called it aperient: cures mucus disorders, strokes of the wind or sun,
and removes fever. It produces worms.
940 More.--The Peacock? Its flesh is hot, aphrodisiac, and tonic;
beneficial in diseases of the ear, colds, dryness, and creates
appetite; increases understanding, thickens the hair of the
head, strengthens eye-sight, cleans the voice, and beautifies the
complexion. It ought to be ate in the cold season, as it is not so
beneficial in the hot winds and rains. P. Taous.
941 Morba.--A medicine of India. Its root hard, and of a clay color;
hot and dry in the 2nd degree: used as an external application in
swellings of the throat, and one direm of it eaten, it will loosen
phlegm from the throat.
942 Motha.--"Cyperus rotundus. Cyperus pertenuis, Roxb." A name for
Saad; bitter, astringent, and cool; inducing costiveness; assisting
digestion; used in disorders of blood, mucus, bile, and fever;
removes thirst, and is vermifuge.
943 Moom.--Soft and greasy, cures pain of bruises; and boils; assists
the growth of granulations in wounds, and the junction of fractured
bones; useful in affections of wind, blood, and Juzam. A. Shuma.
944 Mookul..--Restrains laxities of the bowels, is heavy and tonic;
useful in disorders of bile and wind, creates appetite, and is very
aphrodisiac.
945 Moolie or Moolug.--Hot and light, creates appetite, clears the
voice, benefits affections of the throat, the olfactory nerves,
and the three secretions; dried, it is light and very beneficial in
piles, swelling, stone and gravel. Salt extracted from the radish
in the usual way, by being dried and burned, is diuretic; useful in
suppressions of urine, and promotes digestion.
946 Motie.--Its properties nearly resembling those of Chunder Kanth,
q. v.
947 Moonga.--A name for Mirjhan; bitter and sweet; useful in disorders
of bile, heat, wind, and mucus; increases semen and is cardiac.
948 Mowlserie.--Mimusops Elengi. Bukool, H. Sweet, astringent, and
cool; causes intoxication, raises the spirits and is an antidote to
poisons. Its flowers have a sweet smell; the fruit is cool, sweet,
and astringent; improves the color of the skin, and imparts a pleasant
taste to the mouth. I have found the fruit to be cardiac and stomachic;
the root is beneficial in seminal weakness, in strengthening the loins,
and increasing the consistence of semen. Its name is also Bowlserie.
Maadentezerrubad.
Bowlserie is cool and dry; its bark and root useful in thickening
semen, and remedying too great seminal irritability: if its bark
is boiled in milk, and as a gargle, it will remove tooth-ache. The
flowers are somewhat hot, cardiac, and stomachic; its distilled water
is intoxicating, and useful in disorders of bile, thirst, and delirium.
949 Mooslee or Mooslicund.--Sweet and cool; removes bile and heat;
increases a proper secretion of mucus, and if eaten with sweet oil,
it will relieve discharges from the nose from cold. Used with rock
salt, it will increase appetite; with water it will remove pains in the
bowels. It is of several kinds: black and white. The former resembles
the Shakakool, but the bark of the Shakakool is white, whereas this
is black; the white kind is thin, and resembles Mahi roobyan, called
also Mooslie Dukanee. Another kind is also white, and thinner than
the black kind, yet thicker than the Dukanee. All three kinds are
used in aphrodisiac formulÊ; some have called it hot, and useful in
piles and disorders of wind. If half a direm be taken with Zeera, it
will be found beneficial in Jaundice; and if taken with equal parts
of good ginger, it will cure indigestion. If eaten with the leaves
of Punskisht in equal parts, it will remedy offensive perspiration,
and with Streephill, it will remove seminal weakness; with Peepul,
it will cure Hydrophobia, and with Anula it cures intermittents.
Maadentezerrubad.
Mooslie is of two kinds, black and white; the black is called Mooslie
Dukanee, dry in the first degree, and hot in the second; some say
hot in the first degree and dry in the second. It is aphrodisiac, and
increases semen; removes head-ache from phlegm and seminal weakness, (3
direms with as much of the white of the cocoanut.) In giddiness it is
administered with honey; as a tonic with milk and Isgun; for injuries
of the labiÊ and vagina with Darfelfil; for carbuncle with Zemicund;
for dropsy, with camel's milk or Mocoe water. As an antidote to poison,
with Kawanch seed; in quartan ague, with cold water; in Soorkhbad,
with Tirphilla; in habitual fever, with cow's urine; in pains in the
bowels, with hot-water; in the bite of a snake, with sugar, honey,
or Tincar; in deafness, with mint or Kanjee for seven days; in black
jaundice, with Baberung; and for gonorrhoea or diabetes, with water.
In the opinion of the Hindoos, this is the best of all medicines,
and the black kind the most powerful for medicinal purposes.
950 Moorsheka.--A tree, whose leaves growing like the plume of the
peacock, has obtained for it this name. It is sweet and acid; useful
in disorders of bile, wind, mucus, and heat.
951 Mogra.--"Jasminum Zambac. Magorium." A flower very common; sweet
and cool, and of a pleasant smell; raises the spirits; removes bile;
improves weakness of sight, affections of the mouth, and ulcers. There
are seven kinds of it.
952 Musakunie.--A shrub of two kinds, the first rises only about
four inches, more or less, and has on both sides of it two leaves,
like a mouse; the other kind remains on the ground, like the leaf of
the Doodie. Its flower is of a blue color; the first kind is scarce:
both are hot, bitter, and diuretic, and useful in disorders of bile
and mucus; it is called Murzunjoosh.
953 Maha Moondie.--A kind of Moondie, of a larger kind; its flower as
large as the Kudum flower; its properties the same as the Bhoomkudum.
954 Mahwa.--"Bassia latifolia." A tree as large as the mangoe; its
leaves large and thick; its wood used in building, very common to the
eastward. A spirit is distilled from its flower; its fruit is named
Kelownda; the unripe shell of it dressed with meat much improves its
flavor. It is hot and dry. One kind of it is named Rahisphill. The
decoction, the distilled water and spirit, have an offensive smell,
produce giddiness, and much subsequent uneasiness. The flower when
just blown is white, but as it becomes ripe assumes a yellow color
like the Benowlee, but larger, and it is sweet to the taste. The
kernel of its fruit gives an oil of a white color, and is used to
adulterate ghee. Its properties are said to be, that it is useful in
mucus and wind, and cicatrizes wounds.
Its flower is cool and heavy; aphrodisiac; increases the secretion
of milk and semen, also mucus; useful in disorders of bile, blood,
wind, and in hectic fever. Called Goolchukan.
955 Mahkee.--Its flesh is sweet to the taste; hot and moist, also
heavy; useful in disorders of wind, and has a soporific property. It
is aphrodisiac, increases semen, strengthens memory, and preserves
health. It is a name for the buffalo. A. Jamoos.
956 Mohoka.--"Cuculus Castaneus, Buch." A bird, the note of which is
sounded okok, it is also called Uka. Its brain mixed with perfumes,
and used as a cephalic in cases of palsy of the tongue, and paralysis,
produces sneezing, and gives relief. Its blood is used to extract
thorns or heads of arrows from the flesh. Its brain, mixed with sugar
and given to children, produces distinct articulation. The flesh is
said to be hot and dry, and to strengthen memory. Its fÊces is used
as a medicine in difficulty of breathing.
957 Mahaneem.--"Melia sempervirens, W. The leaves of this species of
the bead tree have a nauseous taste, devoid of astringency. Flem." Its
taste is bitter and astringent; it is cool and dry; removes laxities
of the bowels; useful in disorders of mucus, bile, and blood. Is
vermifuge; allays vomiting and nausea, and is very powerful in
Juzam. It is commonly called Bucaen. Shaikh Boo Ali Seyna, in his
work called Kanoon, has written, that Azad is the name of a poisonous
tree; and Hakeem Ally has written, that the Azad is the Bucaen tree;
others too have followed him up, and stated it to be the Bucaen: but
as I have repeatedly exhibited the Bucaen, I know that it possesses no
poisonous qualities, consequently this must either be a mistake or a
false statement. In the Moasoodie, it is written, that the Bucaen is a
tree of India, cool, dry, astringent, vermifuge, beneficial in Juzam,
eruptions, disorders of blood, and that it is lithontriptic. If three
direms of the seed in powder be taken, it will be found useful in
piles, and stop the discharge from bleeding piles; a fumigation of
the seeds will also be found useful. The young leaves bruised and
taken will correct an increased discharge of the menstrual flux;
the leaves heated and applied to piles, or the loins in lumbago,
will give great relief, and as an application to boils it exceeds the
Neem in virtue. The seeds bruised and rubbed among the hair will kill
vermin; and the bark burnt, and with equal parts of Kuth, applied to
the mouth, will cure eruptions.