Part 21

438 Darhuld.--The wood of a tree called Huld. It is pungent and bitter; hot, dry, and useful in disorders of phlegm, bile, and blood, in acne, seminal weakness, swellings of the body, marasmus, boils, eruptions, in affections of the eye, pain in the ear; is lithontriptic, and cicatrizes wounds.

In the Maadentezerrubad, is the following:

Darhuld is a wood of a yellow color; if bruised with Malageer, mixed with honey, and taken, it will be found excellent in marasmus, and as an external application in the itch.

439 Datoon also Danth or Danti, names for Hubboos Salateen. In Hinduee Jamalgota. "Croton Tiglium, W. Jayap·la, S." It is bitter, pungent, and hot; promotes digestion; cures bilious affections, also foulness of the blood, disorders of mucus, swellings of the body, dropsy, and worms. It is violently purgative, and clears off the three secretions, but more especially mucus and black bile. It is not a safe medicine for weakly people, children, or the aged; but it is proper for those of strong constitutions, such as the Highlanders or country people, on whom weaker medicines have little effect. I have seen some of the hill people eat from 5 to 10 of the nuts without producing more than two or three motions, whereas the people of this city (Delhi) find half a nut as much as they can well bear.

The small green substance in the centre or heart of the nut, ought to be thrown aside, as it is poisonous. I have given this medicine very often with great good effect, and it is a general favorite with the physicians of Hindostan. In cholicks attended with vomiting, I have prescribed it with good effect.

440 Daoodie.--A common plant, about half a yard high, on which grows white and yellow flowers; it is hot and dry, and the smell of the flowers removes disorders from cold on the brain by heating it. The powder of the flowers, in the quantity of 6 mashas, with sugar, is lithontriptic, and in the quantity of 3 mashas if it be boiled, and the decoction drank with sugar, it will also be found beneficial. If the flowers are boiled in oil, till the virtue be extracted, the oil will form an excellent external application in all affections arising from cold; a conserve of its flowers strengthens the stomach and the brain, and removes depression of spirits. The juice of the leaves is attenuating and suppurating. "Marigold, Chrysanthemum."

441 Dabeh.--A kind of grass; useful in suppression of urine; is lithontriptic; cures disorders of bile, phlegm, and removes pains in the urinary bladder.

442 Darum.--The pomegranate of the hills. "Punica granatum, W." It is very acid and astringent; it increases appetite and promotes digestion; is cardiac; decreases bile, removes depression of spirits, and the sweet kind decreases the 3 secretions.

"The bark of the root a cure for TÊnia. Boil 8oz. in 3lb. of water to a quart. Of this the patient takes a wine-glassful, and repeats it as the faintness will admit."

443 Darmee Saar.--The pomegranate seed. It cures disorders of bile. I have found its powder very useful in giving tone to the stomach and removing heated bile; it is also astringent. Mixed with medicines of a laxative nature, it is given in India on account of its tonic effects, and its preventing injury from other medicines.

444 Darma called also Soombulkhar, or rather it is a species of arsenic.

445 Dakh.--Cool, heavy, aperient; improves eye-sight; increases aphrodisia; removes fever, thirst, difficulty of breathing, affections of wind, bile, and blood, jaundice, dysuria, and heat of body. Its corrector is to be found in its acid, which cures mucous disorders and eruptions from vitiated bile, and the same effects will be produced by grapes without seeds. The hill grapes are acid, light, and useful in mucous disorders, but in some degree increase bile. Ungoor. The grape.

446 Daad Murden.--"Cassia Alata, W." The expressed juice of the leaves, mixed with salt, used for the cure of ring-worm.

447 Dooparia.--"Pentapetes PhÊnicia." The name of a common flower, of a rose color, and white, and flowers at noon. It is light, astringent, and cures disorders of mucus and bile.

448 Dutchina Virna.--Bitter and heavy in digestion; dry, and increasing wind; cures cough, boils, eruptions, disorders of bile, and affections of the eyes.

449 Durba.--A name for Doob, called also Shittb˙ra.

450 Durbhur.--A kind of Lawa. Vide L.

451 Dusmool.--A mixture of both kinds of PunjËmoÚl; it increases appetite; cures disorders of bile, mucus, difficulty of breathing, cough; decreases perspiration; removes morbid inclination to sleep, also fever, flatulence, pains in the bowels, and pleuritic affections.

452 Dukdoka.--A name for DoÚdhËe.

453 Dumna.--A kind of Murzunjoosh, called also Dawna; its leaves have a finer smell than the flower, and are very numerous. It is an antidote to poisons; useful in disorders of the blood and the three secretions, Juzam, nausea, and watery itch. Its properties are hot, and it is hurtful to those of the like temperament. Its smell causes dryness of the brain. The wild Dawna is the most powerful.

454 Dundundana.--A shrub about a yard high; its leaves like those of the Baer. It is a trefoil, and in the centre of the three leaves there is a capsule, which when ripe breaks and discharges the seed; it is of a whitish brown color, some more white than others; its seed resembles those of the safflower, but is longer and more broad. It is used as an ingredient in the first medicine given to a child at its birth to clear its bowels.

455 Doon also Shittb·ra.--The latter is white and cool; cures acne, disorders of mucus, bile, blood, thirst, and general heat. "Poa Cynosuroides."

456 Doodhee called also DukdÚka.--A grass of two kinds. The first kind does not rise from the ground; its leaves green; its fibres very small. The leaves like the Til. If the branch is broken, a white juice exudes like milk; from this it has derived its name; it grows about a span in diameter. The second kind has red branches, and is much about the size of the other; the first is the hottest and best. It is dry, heavy, and aphrodisiac; cures affections of wind and mucus, also Juzam and worms. It is flatulent; and a third kind of it called Mydha SeËngie; also a fourth JhËnawurha.

From the Maadentezerrubad.

Doodhee is of three kinds: The first large, called Meendha doodee; its tree like the Bael; its fruit like the Aak, and like it too, there is a cottony substance contained in it. Its flowers are white, and milk exudes from its broken branches. If the cottony substance be applied to the piles, and the patient seated over a hot place, that the cotton become well heated, it will cure the complaint. Its leaves are like the Paan. The second kind is very small, and remains spread on the ground; its branches are red, and its leaves thin; it is beneficial in gonorrhoea and in ulcers of the urethra. If it is bruised and eaten for a year, in the quantity that can be held in the palm of the hand, it will be aphrodisiac, increase the secretion of semen, make the hair black, and preserve the eyesight. The 3rd kind grows to the height of 7 or 8 inches, and is useful in seminal weakness and diabetes. If 9 mashas be taken with sugar, it will be useful in remedying a too hurried seminal evacuation and heartburns. The second kind is cool and dry. "Euphorbia hirta."

457 Doodee.--A name for Hubb-ul-neel. A purgative seed, beneficial in affections of bile, mucus, piles, worms in the belly and rectum, in badgola, and is an antidote to poisons.

458 DoÛdputeya.--A name for Chirkakolie, another kind of which is called Kakolie.

459 Doodka.--A name for Doorie; cures superabundance of wind, mucus, phlegm, piles, worms, Badgola, and is an antidote to poisons.