Part 20

411 Jojakhar.--A name for nitre.

412 Chohara.--"The date. Phoenix Dactylifera." P. called KhoÛrma sunshekun; aphrodisiac; it is ate with milk. If the ChÛhara is bruised, and with salep and sugar boiled in milk, till nearly half the milk shall be evaporated, then drank, it will be found useful as an aphrodisiac, increasing the bulk of the solids, and if it digests easily, it will be found peculiarly useful. If roasted and eat with opium, it becomes astringent.

413 Chirr, and another kind, which is black; both are cold, and useful in disorders of all the secretions, heat of the body, and Juzam. P. Soombulutteeb.

414 Chereela.--In its properties it resembles SËleËchih, (Cassia Lignea.) P. Ooshna.

415 Jhow.--A name of Turfa. If bruised and mixed with vinegar it suppurates indolent swellings, and also scirrhous swellings of the spleen.

416 Cherkund.--A kind of Beedareekund, which is white.

417 Chundurseha.--A name for Mudukp˙rnie.

418 Choocheroo.--A name for SÌrphonka.

419 Jhirberie.--"Jujube." A name for wild Baer; is acid, cool, useful in bile, cardiac, and astringent: if dried and pounded, it is called B˙rchun; this possesses all its properties, but is more astringent.

420 Jyaphupp.--Another kind of it is Tersindiapurni; its seed is made into beads. It is also called Surupjea; it is astringent, strengthens the hair of the head, and darkens its color.

421 CheehurÊ.--A tree of India; there is another kind called Choobnuz, and a third kind S·toona. Its wood smells strong and rancid; it is hot and dry in the 3rd degree; it is very oleaginous and greasy. If its juice be expelled by heat and collected, it is excellent as an application in paralysis, and it also cleanses large foul ulcers. Its milk is pungent and heating, and it is an active poison, hot and dry in the 4th degree; applied to the skin, it blisters; it is used in swellings from cold. Its wood is used internally in loss of voluntary motion or insensibility and epilepsy, and it is said to be lithontriptic. It injures the lungs, and its corrector is oil of almonds and gum. The dose is 3 mashas.

422 Jeewuk.--Cool and aphrodisiac; increases semen and mucus; cures disorders of bile, wind, heart-burn, emaciation, and hectic fever.

423 Cheenuk.--A tree of Hindostan; hot; useful in boils and eruptions, affections of the heart and disorders of wind; it is astringent.

424 Jeewuntie or JeÈw˙nie or JÈw·; cool, sweet, moist, light; strengthens the system and eyesight; is astringent; useful in disorders of mucus, wind, and bile. It forms an ingredient in all favorite formulÊ, and it removes feverish heat. The people of India use its greens in the beginning of the cold weather as food; the small Jeewuntie being considered as one of the best of culinary vegetables. It is called also Saag Sherista. The large kind is named BheÈndoorie, from its more limited mode of spreading its branches, and the small kind, for the contrary reason, is called BÈldoÛrie: this spreads to a great distance, and creeps along whatever it comes in contact with. The fruit is like the cucumber.

The above is also the name of a flower, which in the Dhunteri is said to be aphrodisiac, and to clear the voice.

425 Jeewung.--Also Buthua. Its stem is red.

426 Cheedah.--The small pine (Senobir Jegheer); sweet; pungent during digestion; bitter, hot, moist, light; useful in windy disorders, and affections of the eyes, throat, and ear.

427 Cheenah.--"Millet. Panicum Italicum. Pan. Pilosum." P. Arzum. A. Dakhun. Its properties are nearly the same as the small seed called Kongnee.

428 Cheetul.--An Indian Deer, black and white, pyebald. Its flesh has the same properties as the Chikara.

429 Cheetah.--Its meat is hot and heavy; useful in disorders of wind, affections of the eyes and voice. In A. Phahus; it is also the name of a medicine mentioned hereafter.

430 Cheel.--"The Kite. Falco Cheela," Lath. Its meat is heavy, and increases disorders of the three secretions. In P. Gh˙llevaz. A. Hyd·t.

431 Jeepaul.--A name for Jamalgota.

432 Cheetah.--"Valerian? Plumbago Zeylanica or Plumbago Rosea, W." A medicine; one kind of which is red, the other purple; inside of a yellowish color; both woods are very thin, and both are pungent, bitter, dry, light, astringent, stomachic, and increase the powers of digestion. The red kind, mixed with strong vinegar, and rubbed hard on the spots of white leprosy till blisters arise, will have the effect of removing the complaint. A. Sheetrudj.

433 Cheea or Cheetkeh, both names for Hurr.

434 Khutchur.--A. Bagul. P. Astur. The mule. Its flesh increases strength; is aphrodisiac; it likewise increases mucus and bile.

435 Khergosh.--So called in Persian. The hare. Its Indian name is Suss·h. Vide S.

436 Kherboozah.--So named, both in Persian and Hinduee. It is hot, dry, light, and sweet; when ripe it increases bile, and is diuretic and lithontriptic. Its corrector is oxymel.

437 Khuss, also OsheËre.--In the hot weather it is used for cooling houses. It is cool, assists digestion; is astringent, and cures bilious disorders; also those of mucus and blood. It allays thirst, cures blisters and acne, general heat, dysuria, boils and eruptions; prolongs aphrodisia, and I have found it excellent as a cardiac and astringent.