986 Nergoondie.--Resembles Rootki, but smaller and black. The author of
the Ulfaz has without due enquiry pronounced this to be the Sumhaloo,
but this is a different plant. It is hot and dry, useful in disorders
of mucus.
987 Neyrmellie.--"Strychnos Potatorum, W. Cataca, San." It is cool
and dry, some say it is in equilibrium. If bruised and mixed with foul
water, it will clear, and purify it. If bruised in water, and applied
to the umbilicus, it will relieve the griping pain of dysentery. If
bruised, and applied to the eyes, it will strengthen eye-sight; also
if applied to the bite of a snake, it will remove the effects of the
poison. If eight grains of it be mixed with a little water and sugar,
and drank, it will be found beneficial in gonorrhoea. I have seen this
in my uncle's receipt book, but the dose was not there specified. If
four grains of this be bruised in water, and mixed with dhaie, and
left in a covered China vessel for a night, and taken in the morning,
it will relieve suppression of urine, gonorrhoea, chordee, and bloody
urine; but it must be used for a week.
988 Niswut or Mahaseyama, or Ritchita. It is a little bitter and
sweet; also bitter during digestion. It is hot and dry; laxative;
relieves wind; useful in fever, disorders of bile, mucus, dropsy,
and swellings. The black kind is a poison and very hurtful; it is a
powerful drastic purgative; produces insensibility, heat, giddiness,
and injures the voice.
989 Nuk Is of two kinds, both sweet to the taste; hot and light;
removes possession by evil spirits; beneficial in disorders of wind,
mucus, and blood; is an antidote to poisons; cardiac, and clears the
complexion, called Uzfarooteeb.
990 Nukchecknie.--A name for Koondush. It is a low shrub, does not
rise from the ground; its leaves like the Tirrateruk; its flower
like the Neemb. It produces eruptions in the mouth, beneficial in
disorders of wind and phlegm, and is vermifuge. It is called Chicknie.
Maadentezerrubad.
Nukchikenie is a medicine of India, hot and dry; expels wind;
beneficial in mucus, paralysis, and paralytic complaints, loss of
memory, pains in the joints, and is aphrodisiac. If one seer of this
with quarter seer of sweet oil, and half the weight of Mulkungnie,
be put into an earthen vessel, and its oil extracted in the manner
described under the head Puttaljuntur, and given in the quantity of
four soorkhs in Paan, it will be useful in all the above-mentioned
complaints, and in all mucous disorders. It will be advisable to
use this medicine only in the cold weather, as it is, in itself,
very hot and powerful.
991 Nullwa.--Cool; strengthens the eye-sight; useful in bilious
disorders, affections of the blood, Juzam, difficulty of voiding urine,
general heat, mucus, and acne.
992 Null or Nullie; grows in watery and moist places; it is cool, and
useful in disorders of the eyes, in eruptions of the mouth or apthÊ;
clears the blood; clears and dries the vagina, and is diuretic. Some
have called it heating.
993 Nemuk Chitchera Is thus made. Take two bundles of that kind
of Chitchera, which has inverted prickles, reduce it to ashes, and
collect them into a vessel; then add a great quantity of water, and
mix and wash it well with the hand; leave it for a night, add more
water, put it into a cloth, and let it strain through slowly by drops;
boil the clear fluid till the salt will precipitate or crystallize.
994 Nemuk Soonchur also called Nemuk Sia. "Muriate of
soda. Bitlaban. Kala Nemuck, H." A tonic in dyspepsia or gout; a
deobstruent in obstructions of the spleen and mysenteric glands of
children; a stimulant in chronic rheumatism and palsy; a vermifuge. An
analysis of the black salt gave,
"Black oxide of iron, six grains; sulphur, 14 grains; muriate of
lime, 12 grains; muriate of soda, 444 grains; loss four grains =
480 grains." It is thus prepared: Take two seers of Anula, one seer
of Ashkhur, bruise both and mix them with 20 seers of rock-salt,
also bruised; put the whole into a vessel, cover the vessel with a
cloth, all except the mouth; lute this cloth well with soft clay,
and place it in the sun to dry. When perfectly dry, put it on the
fire, (let the mouth of the vessel be rather small.) Keep constantly
stirring it with an iron spatula or spoon; when well boiled and mixed,
take it off and allow it to cool; then add Tinkhar, Jawakhar, Tilkh,
Kibreeth, sweet salt, and soot, equal parts; mix all well together,
and add a quantity of salt-water; then boil the whole down, and strain
as directed under the head Nemuk Chitchera.
995 Nemuk Kutchloon.--The salt of glass, called Muskhoo Koonia, also
Zoobdat ul Kawareer. It is the froth of glass; it creates appetite;
clears the blood: there is another kind of salt called Budhloon. This
is hot and stomachic; restrains laxities of the bowels, pains, and
consequent swellings of the urinary bladder, heaviness, and stuffing
of the chest, disorders of wind and mucus; also expels wind.
996 Nemuk Udhbidh.--The common Unkaloon; this is a kind of black
salt; it is light; clears the blood; it is speedy in its effects,
and as an external application, and it expels wind.
997 Nemuk Soendha.--Sweet to the taste; cool, moist, and light;
promotes appetite and digestion. Is cardiac, strengthens vision,
and is useful in wind and bile.
998 Nekund Baaperi.--A medicine of India, called also Oontura or
Anere. It is hot and moist. If used as much as can be held in the
palm of the hand, for a year, no poison will prove hurtful; in fact it
counteracts the poison of snakes, and all other poisons. If two direms
be eaten with as much aniseseed, for six months, the hair will not
become white; two direms ate with dhaie, will be found effectual in
gonorrhoea. Eaten with the leaves of the lime tree, and four seeds of
peepul, it will cure obstinate fevers; with goat's milk, will cure
quartans; with Foifil for three months, will cure white leprosy,
also foulness of the blood, Juzam, boils, and scabies.
999 Nundbyrchun or Nundbyrkha. Hot and light, and in its properties
resembling the peepul; indeed it is reckoned a species of that
tree. It is useful in disorders of mucus, blood, poisons, boils,
and cuticular eruptions.
1000 Nunahuld.--The small turmeric, called also Mameeran.
1001 Newarrie.--A flower in India, like the Chumbeley, but has no
smell. It is of two kinds, one procured in the hot season, the other
in the rains; the second kind is also called Newalie. Both are pungent,
light, and useful in disorders of all the secretions.
1002 Nowsader.--"Muriate of Ammonia. Sal Ammoniac, F. Salmiak, G. Sale
Ammoniaco, I. Sal Ammoniaco, Sp. Also Nowshader"; very pungent salt,
and as a medicine or application, speedily effectual. It is aperient,
beneficial in cholics, dropsy, costiveness, and pains in the bowels.
1003 Nowllee.--The young leaves of the lime tree; they have a sweet
and grateful smell.
1004 Neeturbala.--Cool, dry, and light; produces appetite and
digestion; cures eruptions of diffused bile; bilious and mucous
disorders, general heat, boils, and eruptions. Some say, that this is
the Nalee, but this is a mistake, for Nalee is the name of a different
medicine, though it may be that of both. As the Neeturbala is seldom
met with, a substitute is used in the branches of the Neelophir, dried.
1005 Neela Totha.--P. Tootia Subs. It is of two kinds, both aperient,
and useful in scabies and Juzam, disorders from poison, and mucus;
is vermifuge; reduces corpulency, and is useful in certain diseases
of the eye.
1006 Neenuk.--Its flesh is sweet to the taste; light, tonic, and
aphrodisiac; useful in disorders of the three secretions. It is a
kind of Barasingha.
1007 Newla.--In its properties resembling those of the cat. A. Ibn
Urs. "The mongoose, Ichneumon, Viverra Ichneumon."
1008 Neelkunt.--"Coracias Bengalensis." A bird; its meat is useful
in disorders of mucus, wind, and blood. P. Subsuk.
1009 Neendie.--"Vitex Nigundo, W. Lagondium Litorium, Rump. Bhemnosi,
Rheede. Vitex Trifolia. The leaves heated are discutient, effectual in
dispelling inflammatory swellings of the joints from acute rheumatism,
and of the testicles from suppressed gonorrhoea."
1010 Neela Sindhuk.--A name for Sumhaloo, (Sobaloo?) P. Punjkysht. A
kind of the above; both are bitter to the taste, astringent, pungent,
and light; increase knowledge; strengthen vision; also strengthen the
hair of the head; remove itchiness of the abdomen and swellings; are
vermifuge; useful in Juzam, boils, eruptions, and disorders of mucus;
improve appetite, and relieve cataract. The leaves of the Sumhaloo,
smoked as tobacco, or equal parts of them and tobacco bruised and
applied to the part, will cure hydrocele.
1011 Nypaul.--A kind of Chureyta, called also Nupaul Neeb.
1012 Neenboo.--P. Lymboo. Citrus Medica, W. Jambira, S. Refrigerant,
antiseptic. Peel stomachic. The Lime. It ripens in the hot-weather, and
attains the size of a hen's egg. It is of a green yellowish color. Its
rind is very thin, and thence it derives its name Kagsi. One kind of
it is always in fruit, and a sweet kind of it is called Rajineenboo
phill. Its properties are particularly noticed in Yunani works. It
is said in some publications to be an antidote to animal poisons,
both internally used, and applied to the parts.
1013 Neel.--The indigo, very common in India; hot and bitter; useful
in boils, affections of the spleen, Soorkhbad, dropsy, strengthening
the hair of the head; but it weakens memory, and produces giddiness.
Its leaves are used as an application for colouring the hair, and
are in great estimation on that account. From its heating quality, it
either decreases or increases a discharge from the nose, according to
its nature; and when it is used for colouring the hair of the beard,
cloves ought to be mixed with it, to increase its heating quality,
when the person is of a cold temperament.
1014 Neelisbund.--A kind of Apirchetta, q. v.
1015 Neeb.--"Melia Azedirachta, W. The pride of India, the leaves of
a nauseous bitter taste, (devoid of astringency,) Flem."
A very common and large tree of India, much esteemed; it is of four
kinds, the medicinal properties of all the same. It is astringent
and bitter; pungent and cool, (some say hot and dry;) some call
its qualities in equilibrium; it is quick of digestion; useful in
disorders of bile, wind, and mucus, and I have known it to be of use
in Juzam and white leprosy. I have also exhibited it with success in
eruptions and scabies. One man I knew, whose whole body was white from
leprosy. I prescribed it to him for 40 days, and cured him. I took
the kernel of the seed, bruised and sifted it, and gave it in the
quantity that might be contained in the palm of his hand, fasting,
and prohibited him from using any other kind of food than bread or
dhal, without salt or ghee.
It is also said by Hukeem Ali to be excellent in curing obstinate old
ulcers, as also fistula in ano, by the application of its leaves. It is
given in many and various ways. Its leaves are given fresh, sometimes
dried and pounded, sometimes its juice is given, often the juice of
the leaf buds, and not unfrequently its bark. It is likewise given
mixed with Noora. Its juice is used with Noora to cleanse foul ulcers,
and to cure carbuncle, and this it effects in a very short time. The
Noora is added to it in one-eighth of its quantity, and Hukeem Ali has
declared it to be the best ingredient in ointment that he ever tried.
I have often used the leaves heated as an application to swellings and
boils; it in some cases resolved them, in others expedited suppuration,
and in all was beneficial. I have added salt to the bruised leaves
for the same purpose, and found that it added to its efficacy.
A decoction of the leaves as a fumigation is excellent in discussing
swellings, and with the addition of the leaves of the Sumhaloo, with
additional good effect. A fumigation of less heating properties may
be obtained by the leaves of the Anbassaleb, being substituted for
the Sumhaloo. The water of this decoction is useful in cleansing foul
ulcers, and removing pain from the joints.
The Neeb in the opinion of Indian physicians is cool, and Hukeem
Urzanee has described its qualities as equal. If the decoction is
used as a wash for the hair, it will darken its color, and increase
its growth; and if the juice of its young leaves in the quantity of
five or six direms be taken for seven days, it will cure scabies,
ring-worm, and all kinds of acne, and it will purify the blood. A
decoction of the bark of its root will restore suppressed menses,
and if taken with goor it will produce abortion: prepared in this
manner it will cure the under-mentioned diseases.
Take of the flower, seed, bark of the root, and leaves (called Punjuk),
let them be infused for a night in two maunds of water, then bury it
in the ground for a month, after which distil its water for use.
All species of scabies, white leprosy, Juzam, (when not too far
advanced,) and disorders of all the secretions. Some mix the Punjuk of
the Bucaen with the above, and it is said to increase its virtues. If
the seed be bruised in water, and applied to the head, it will remove
head-ache. Its juice is vermifuge. If three masha of the leaf buds
with half masha of black peepul be eaten for 21 days, it will remove
disorders and foulness of blood; increase the strength of vision, and
by its juice being introduced into the eyes, will cure night-blindness.
I have given it for cleansing the blood, correcting vitiated bile,
scabies, idiotism, and all disorders arising from disordered bile,
thus: By mixing the distilled water, above-mentioned, with filings of
Sissoo, the leaves, flowers, and bark of the Bucaen, and Shatirra, and
Surphonka, white Sandal, filed, and Gowzeban, mixed well, and a water
distilled. It will also be found useful in Juzam and white leprosy.
1016 Neelobe.--The Saruss.
1017 Neelgau.--"The Wild Cow, (a species of Elk.)" Its size is somewhat
between a horse and ass. Its meat is greasy, hot, and moist; sweet;
increases the secretion of semen; also bile, and eruptions of the
apthous kind. It is also called Rooja. A. Bakur ul Vaish.
1018 Nainjooth.--A name for Mameeran.
1019 Neelkunti.--A small shrub of India; its leaves thick in a middling
degree; its root and flower is blue: also another kind, which grows
in gardens, is called by this name. Its properties are not known to me.
1020 Vaasun.--Called also Bootee Shaikh Fureed, which also signifies
a hill.
1021 Vcherkhar.--A name for Nowshakur, also Nowshader; some call
this a composition, and some say it is the salt Zakoom, made by the
branches being cut small, burnt, and prepared.
1022 Veedoorie also Bedoorie. A. Ynoolhur. It is commonly known by
the name Sahroonia; hot, acid, and useful in cholics.
1023 Veroojun.--Also Beroojun. The author of the Kasmi has described
this as a small stone, or a name for any small stone; some describe
it as a kind of Jewaheer.
1024 Harsinghar.--"Nyctanthes Arbor Tristis;" also called
Hursinghar. It grows to about a man's height, and when at the very
highest, is about 12 feet, though some have seen it even higher. Its
leaves are pointed, thick, and hard; its flowers small and white;
their stem red. Its leaves rubbed on ring-worm cure the affection:
first scaling the part, then healing. It is cool and light; useful in
disorders of wind, mucus, and bile. It is aphrodisiac, and re-unites
broken bones.
1025 Haloon.--"The seed of the Cress, or Lepidium Sativum." The seed of
the Agur; it is smaller than the seed of the Tookbalingha, but thicker,
and of a red color; it is aphrodisiac and tonic; removes hiccup,
wind, mucus, and disorders of the blood. It is hot and dry. A. Hurf.
1026 Hudhjora.--The flower of the Hursinghar; it produces the re-union
of fractured bones, from which property it derives its name. "Cissus
quadrangularis."
1027 Hoorhoora.--A small plant, with many flowers, of a white color,
and very small: one kind of it is called Burumseerjela. The first
kind is cool, heavy, and diuretic; useful in disorders of mucus and
wind. The second is hot and light; useful in seminal weakness and
fever; and is lithontriptic, and removes difficulty of voiding urine.
1028 Hurunkherie or Hurunkhoorie. A small plant of India; its leaves
resembling a deer's hoof, which has given it this title. It is usually
found in wheat fields; it is hot, and aperient; useful in scabies,
Juzam, and loss of sensation. If one direm fresh be eaten with 10
grains of black-pepper, bruised, daily, it will restore lost sensation.
1029 Hurtaal.--"The yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment." Pungent
and astringent; hot and dry; useful in disorders from poison, scabies,
Juzam, aphthÊ, disorders of the blood, mucus and bile, fever, and
possession with evil spirits. It is a common application in scabies,
and is called Zernikh Zerd. It is of five kinds, yellow, red, green,
white, and black. The yellow is called Hurtaal, and the white kind is
used by alchymists in the transmutation of metals; it is in the opinion
of every one hot and dry in the 3rd or 4th degree; its corrector is
milk and cow's ghee; its dose four ratties, after it is killed or
prepared, and is thus much esteemed as a medicine in disorders from
cold, such as paralysis, epilepsy, affections of the joints, Juzam, and
white leprosy. It is aphrodisiac, and increases appetite and digestion.
It is thus prepared for use in Leprosy.
Take one tolah of yellow arsenic, wash it seven times in milk, then
grind it for 24 hours, adding as it dries, a little milk, then let
it dry a little, and make it up into small pills. Then take half
seer of the Bhurr Tree (the bark), pound it, and put it in a vessel,
and among the powder put the pills with a little Chunam (lime), above
and below them; after this, shut the vessel so well up that no smoke
can escape, put it on the fire, and keep it in a strong heat for six
hours; then opening the vessel, pour in over the pills a little ghee
(butter), to cool them. The dose will be one soorkh daily, for seven
days, abstaining from any thing salt.
Another method.
Take half a tolah of Hurtaal Tubki, bruise it, and grind it with
milk or the juice of the castor; form it into pills as above. Then
take of Dharafilfil half a tolah, bruise, and use it in lieu of the
chunam above alluded to; form the pile of 15 pieces of cow-dung in a
hole dug in the ground, on these lay the pills, supported and covered
with the Dharafilfil; over them place an equal number of pieces of
cow-dung, and set fire to the whole. When it is cold, take out the
pills, and preserve them for use. Dose half Soorkh.
Another method.
Take of the Hurtaal half a direm, bruise and grind it with the juice
of the Kobee, for six hours, then form it into pills, place them in
an earthern vessel well luted, then surround it with 10 pounds of
dried cow-dung, set it on fire, and when cool, remove them. The dose
one grain or barley corn. Salt prohibited. Given in Paan.
Another method.
Take of Hurtaal half a direm, tie it up in a cloth, and let it remain
for seven days in cow's urine, again for the like period in lime juice,
and an equal number of days in milk of Mudar. The two first liquids
are during the seven days to be twice changed, the last changed daily;
then take out the Hurtaal, and grind it with milk of Mudar for six
hours, form them into pills, and roast them as recommended in the
two foregoing methods. The dose the same.
Another method.
Take of Hurtaal one direm, the kernel of the Kurinjua one direm,
Alum one direm; first bruise the Kurinjua and strew the half of it
over an earthern vessel, with equal parts of Shibyem·nie; then put
over it the Hurtaal, and above that the alum; above all these, put
the remainder of the Kurinjua; secure the whole as in the last method,
and roast with 14 pounds of the dried cow-dung.
1030 Hyrbee.--A root of a yellow color; hot, dry, and aperient;
useful in disorders of bile, mucus, and viscidities of the secretions;
its dose is from one dang. to half a direm.
1031 Harun.--A name for Myrg.
1032 Hurr.--"Terminalia Chebula, W. The unripe fruit Zengi
Hur, H. Myrobalans, Terminalia Citrina." A name for HulÈl·; its
properties particularly described in Yunani works: astringent, sweet,
laxative. Dose one of the fruits.
1033 Hurbarheorhi.--"Averrhoa acida, Linn. Cicca disticha,
Gmel. Phyllanthus Cheramela, Roxb."
Or H˙rf˙rhÈorhi; a common plant; the acid fruit of which is used
for preserves.
1034 Husthkool.--A kind of Baer, of a middling size.
1035 Husthal.--A kind of Pendhaloo.
1036 Husthuk.--A name for Arnd.
1037 Husthchinkhar.--A name for Kharkhusuk.
1038 Huldee called also Huld; it is pungent and bitter, hot and dry;
useful in disorders of mucus, bile, blood, acne, seminal weakness,
swellings, marasmus, and boils. It may be applied in small quantities
externally, bruised, for the cure of bruises. P. Zerdchooba. A kind
of this is called An'bËhuldie, "Curcuma longa."
1039 Huldia.--The name of a yellow poison; vide Hurtaal.
1040 Hoolhool.--"Cleome viscosa." A plant, about a yard high,
more or less; its leaves are small and thin towards the branches;
its seed-vessel is very thin, and contains numerous small black
seeds. It is round, and bent in the centre; it is used as a culinary
vegetable. It is hot and pungent; useful in cholic, dropsy, ulcers, and
ear-aches; swellings, Juzam, and white leprosy. Its leaves, introduced
into the ear, very useful in ear-ache. It is also beneficial in the
piles; the parts being washed with a decoction of its leaves. In this
complaint, the leaves are dressed and eaten with rice; five direms of
seed ate with twice its weight of sugar before meals, and the meal to
consist of Kitcheree, with plenty of ghee, (butter,) used for 40 days,
will effectually remove piles.
1041 Huldoo.--The name of a tree; the wood of which is used in
buildings; its properties mentioned under the head Darhuld.
1042 Hingote.--A tree; hot in its properties; useful in Juzam, boils,
and eruptions; is an antidote to poisons, and to possession by evil
spirits; beneficial in white leprosy and worms in the stomach. Its
fruit is the size of the large Hurrhoe, and even larger, though when
dried it remains about that size. The tree is about the size of a
small Neeb tree.
1043 Hunspeedie.--A small shrub, growing close to the ground;
its branches thin; its leaves small like the Doodie; it is cool and
heavy; useful in disorders of blood, poisons, boils, eruptions, acne,
general heat, and possession by evil spirits. It induces costiveness,
and is used to counteract the effects of poison of the Tarantula.
1044 Hingpootrie.--It is of two kinds, both pungent and saltish;
hot and cardiac; assist digestion; beneficial in pains at the heart,
and of the urinary bladder; induces costiveness; remedies piles,
disorders of mucus, and Badgola.
1045 Huns.--The flesh is hot and moist; heavy and aphrodisiac; clears
the voice and complexion; promotes appetite; beneficial in Soorkhbad
and disorders of bile. P. Haaz.----Goose.
1046 Hhoobaer.--A seed about the size and color of the Phalsa,
sometimes larger; it is said, that when young, it is red, and when
ripe it becomes black. It is a kind of hill Serroe; its leaves like
the Jhow. In its taste, it is pungent and bitter, astringent and hot,
heavy, and beneficial in disorders of wind, bile, dropsy, and piles;
is lithontriptic and vermifuge, and in the quantity of three direms,
it expedites the expulsion of the dead foetus e utero. It will cure
suppression of the menses, but if ate during pregnancy, will produce
abortion. A. Abhul.
1047 Heeng.--Pungent and saltish, also hot; promotes appetite and
digestion; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, internal itchiness,
Badgola, flatulence, and pains in the bowels; is vermifuge; increases
bile, and is aphrodisiac. It increases the power of all tonics and
aphrodisiac prescriptions, but the particulars I have mentioned in
my other works.
1048 Heeraclokhi. A. Dummul Echwder.
1049 Heerakussees.--A kind of Chund Kussees.
1050 Heera.--The name for Almass.
1051 Haimowtie.--A name for Hurrh.
1052 Habooka.--A denomination for Hhoobaer.
1053 Hingool.--A name for Shungirf.