Part 24

505 Rungni.--Pungent and hot; destroys appetite; cures cough, asthma, mucus, and fever from mucus and wind. The white Rungni is pungent and hot; increases eye-sight; consolidates (amalgamates) mercury; promotes appetite, loosens phlegm and wind.

506 Rungtirra.--Called also Sungtirra. It derives its name from the Emperor Allam Gheer the 2nd, because he used it as a medicine; and because no name of a stone can ever be mentioned in the presence of the Emperor, instead of Sungtirra it was therefore called Rungtirra.

507 Rawasun.--A name of Rasun.

508 Rohoo.--A name for Shobooth. It is slightly astringent, and in a small degree increases bile; also gives general strength. I have found it beneficial as an aphrodisiac in strengthening the system and increasing semen; but I have observed that if it does not digest easily it weakens the stomach and produces much mucus; its corrector is ginger, honey, or other medicines of a hot and dry quality.

509 Roohus.--Vide Kundhul.

510 Roopa.--Called also Roopuk. (Silver.) Astringent, moist, cool, aperient, cardiac, and stomachic. It augments the strength of youth, and preserves meat from becoming putrid; decreases fat, strengthens the brain and bones, and thickens semen, decreases corpulency, and cures disorders of wind and bile. It forms an ingredient in all famous recipes. Its calx is called Roopruss, and it is more powerful than any other. Ranga resembled it in its properties, also Gold.

511 Rooi.--When very old, if stuffed into the nose, it promotes the discharge of every thing offensive from the brain. It also cures disorders in the head, the consequence of indigestion, as also hemicrania. A. Kotun (Cotton.)

512 Romus or Mudwal. A name of Bindaloo.

513 Rohni.--Of two kinds, both astringent and cool; beneficial in worms in the stomach, and affections of the throat, which it also clears.

514 Roheera.--A medicine of India; laxative; useful in wind, Badgola, affections of the liver and spleen, and in dropsy.

515 Rahusphill.--A kind of Mowa.

516 Reewudj.--The name of a shrub, cool and useful in suppression of urine, general heat, disorders of the three secretions, and blood; its tree is astringent and hot; cures disorders of the mouth, and is an antidote to poisons; it is vermifuge, cures itches, boils, and wounds, and disorders of the blood and mucus. It prevents the effects of evil-eyes, or demoniacal possession.

517 Reech.--The Bear. Its taste is sweet, cool, and heavy; it is aphrodisiac, and removes affections from wind. P. Khirs.

518 Reenga.--The fruit of the Sumhaloo; produces appetite, clears the uterus after parturition; increases knowledge and bile.

519 Reetha.--"Sapindus Saponaria. The soap-nut, soap-wort." Hot, and useful in disorders of the three secretions, and in blood. This however does not coincide with the result of my experience, but I have found it useful in cases of hemicrania, as a cephalic used in the opposite nostril: prevents demoniacal possession. A. Bunduck Hindui.

520 Rewind.--"Rheum Palmatum. Rhubarb." Laxative, stomachic, and astringent; and if taken after meals with rose water, it promotes digestion and strengthens the bowels. It removes mucus from the pylorus.

521 Zeera.--"Cuminum Cyminum, W. Jiraca, S. Cumin seed." Hot and dry; light, stomachic, astringent; increases knowledge, clears the uterus; and of use in disorders of that viscus; it relieves flatulence, Badgola, and vomiting.

522 Zeerki.--A name for Zuerishk.

523 Zachmeheath.--A small shrub, growing close on the ground, covering it with its foliage; it is found by the side of fields of water; it is of two kinds, the leaf of one small and thin, those of the other broad and thick. The first kind is excellent in the cure of piles: thus, dried in the shade, pounded, sifted, and taken every morning in the quantity of a palmful with water, for fourteen days; and every night at bed-time, taking 12 mashas of K˙nd Sia, and during its use abstaining from all acids, or other things, which may produce wind.

524 Zerki.--A name of pepper, called also K·la Dana.

525 Zumiekund.--A name for Soor˙n.

526 Sanbir.--A name for Sembile.

527 Saarba.--A medicine of India, of two kinds, both sweet, moist, and heavy; produces semen, and is aphrodisiac; cures disorders of wind, bile, mucus, menorrhagia, and colliquative diarrhoea in fever.

528 Saramill or Sarumluk, or Saral.--The author of the Dara Shekoi has described this as a medicine of India, and in other works that I have consulted, it is called Sangterra. In taste it is astringent, and heavy; beneficial in disorders of wind; and increases mucus and bile.

529 Saluk or Salook.--A flower, q. vide.

530 Sagown or Saag.--A tree of the hills of Hindostan: the upper surface of the leaves is hard and raised like a file. Some say that this is the Pheelgosh (Elephant's ear), from its resemblance to the ear of the Elephant; it is cool, and useful in disorders of wind and blood. "Tectona grandis."

531 Saalpernie or Saloom.--A medicine of India; heavy, cures fever, difficulty of breathing, and disorders of wind, bile, and mucus; it produces nausea, restrains diarrhoea, beneficial in dryness of the seven dhats, strengthens the system, is aphrodisiac, and forms an ingredient in all the favorite formulÊ. In the Dhunterri it is written, that in its taste it is pungent; having small and green leaves, the seed-vessel about an inch long, seed small and numerous; curing chronic fevers, seminal weakness, and swelling of the body. It is said to be hot. "Hedysarum Gangeticum."

532 Saalie.--A tree of the hills, of which elephants are very fond, and which soon brings them into good condition. It cures boils and eruptions, disorders of blood and mucus, and restrains diarrhoea. Its branches quickly take root by being planted, and when used as posts for the support of a roof, it quickly covers the whole with its foliage.