972 Meetanimboo.--Called also, Rajenimboophill, and in
P. Shukurleemboo.
973 Nalee or Narie.--A small plant, which lies on the ground. Its
leaves somewhat like the tamarind leaf. In some works the Narie is
separately described. Its qualities are hot, and it is discutient;
useful in affections of wind from cold; is laxative and beneficial
in disorders of the mouth.
974 Naryil.--"Cocos nucifera." A tree like the Taar or Khoojoor;
its fruit is oval, and betwixt that and its covering is a fibrous
substance in considerable quantities; its weight from half a rittal
to one or more. It is cool; slow of digestion; expels gravel;
induces costiveness; is aphrodisiac and tonic; useful in disorders
of wind, blood, bile, general heat; and its water is cool, light
and cardiac; increases appetite and semen. If not quickly drunk,
and has become fermented, it produces some degree of intoxication,
raises the spirits, and is tonic. Its cheese, when first produced,
resembles milk, and is said to be very sweet; it afterwards becomes
hardened, and increases semen, wind, and disorders of bile. Bullienas,
a physician, has related, that if a torch is made of the rind and
coir, and burnt in the midst of a large company, it will produce so
soporific an effect as to put them all to sleep.
975 Naringee.--Some have stated this to be a name for Narinje, but
this is a mistake; it is produced in Indostan. Its properties are
less powerful than Sungterra or Kowla, but its acid greater.
"Narinje is the Citrus Aurantium, or Nagaranga, San. Rind stomachic;
juice acid and bitter."
976 Nagesur.--"Mesua ferrea." Indian rose chestnut? A seed smaller than
the Kubabcheenee; the plant is thin, and its stem long. It is dry,
light, corrects indigested food; cures or removes offensive smell
from the perspiration; useful in Juzam, acne, mucus, and poisons;
it is said to be a name for Narmusk.
977 Nagdown.--Mugwort? Cures boils and eruptions, and is an antidote
to the poison of spiders and snakes. A. Huleyoon, Artemisia Vulgaris.
978 Nagdumnie.--A wood resembling a snake, from which it obtains its
name. It coils round like the snake, and may easily be mistaken for
that reptile. It is bitter; increases the size of the muscles; is tonic
and light; used in disorders of bile and mucus, gonorrhoea, eruptions,
Lues Venerea, and poisons; it remedies laxities of the bowels.
979 Murdok.--A shrub, found in the hills; its leaves like those of
the cucumber, its root called Davaun nemr. The leopard eats the root,
which produces a swelling near its tail on the back: this is called
Hadjurun nemr. P. Nirkpulung. This if bruised, and applied to the
carbuncle, will expedite its cure; and if a woman applies it to the
parts of generation, she will not conceive; and if her husband visits
another woman after having been with her, she will not conceive. It
is a runnet, and coagulates milk. If preserved about your person,
and you visit a baker's shop, the bread will fall from the oven into
the fire. It is about the size of a clove of garlic, and is variegated
on its surface like the skin of the tiger.