Part 29

When the above sherbet is nearly ready for use, add to it Soorinjan (Hermodactyls), Irkhir (Camel's hay), each three tolahs and 9 mashas, separately bruised, strained, and gradually mixed; when fully boiled add 10 tolahs of senna, and take it from the fire. If this is required of additional virtue for the cure of foulness of the blood and Lues Venerea, add four tolahs of the Pitpapra before the others are mixed with it. Ten tolahs of this in the morning is to be used as before specified. No food to be used during the cure, except kullia, pillau, and bread; no acid to be admitted, and no greens of any description, and the day on which the mixed sherbet is taken, even bread is not to be eaten. "Dalbergia Sissoo. Roxb."

625 Sial "The Jackal." Its flesh strengthens the system, increases semen, cures disorders of wind and hectic fever. A. Ebn··vee. P. Sheghal.

626 Sendhi.--The juice of the date tree; this is less powerful than the tarrie; it is flatulent and aperient; induces corpulency, and is aphrodisiac.

627 SendhÊ.--A kind of Kutcherie.

628 Sealie.--The wild carrot, long and cone-shaped. A. Shakakul.

629 Seenaki.--A name for Karoonus Soombul.

630 Seenku.--A name for Shummie, vide Sh.

631 Seotie vide Kurkooja. "Rosa glandulifera. Roxb."

632 Seelidj.--A kind of ChÈreela, which grows in stony places or near water; it has a sweet smell; is bitter and cool, cures mucous and bilious disorders, heat, thirst, vomiting, and asthmas.

633 Seep or Seepie. A name for Suduf (a shell). It is pungent, shining, and promotes digestion and appetite, strengthens the system, and is an antidote to poisons.

634 Saeb.--A name for Tuffah. In Yunani works, the Indian kind is called Harara or Seoharara; it is cardiac, and its preserve is more so; it is aphrodisiac, and produces flatulence; when unripe it is acid and astringent, and hurtful, produces cough and decreases bile. Its corrector is salt.

635 Seetaphill.--The common Shereefa, q. v.

636 Singia or Singia Jur, (Aconite.) A root like Gentian, but a most deadly poison, and as such used by the Nepaulese. It is also called Singia Khar or Beechnak. It is described in several works as a most active poison, and not to be given by itself even in the smallest quantity. It is made up for internal use as follows:

Take of quicksilver, Singia, Hurtaal (refined), chillies, sulphur (purified), Peepul, fine ginger, Hurrha, (large) Anula, borax (refined), Bahera, nutmeg, each a pice weight.

Mix the quicksilver and sulphur together with a little of the juice of the Bhangra, then add the Hurtaal, rubbing them well, and add all the others, with more of the juice of the Bhangra, till 10 pint bottles or five seers shall be expended; this and these must be rubbed continually during 12 days, and till it acquires the consistence of a mass proper for pills. It is then to be made up into small pills of the size of a small pea each. These are given one for a dose, with the following vehicles, and in the cure of the following disorders; and during their exhibition, only simple food, and no acid to be used.

With Kutkuleja leaves, in Vomiting, Cholera, &c. ,, Cow's urine, in the cure of Diarrhoea. ,, Toolsi leaves, Internal heat. ,, Lime juice, and applied to the eyes, Evil spirits depart. ,, Kusskuss water, in the cure of Bilious disorders. ,, Tirphilla and ginger, in Asthma. ,, Seed of Methi infusion, Dysentery. ,, Honey, Emaciation. ,, Ditto, to thicken Semen. ,, Butch, in the cure of Tooth-ache. ,, Pounded Kusskuss, Dropsy. ,, Nutmeg, Rheumatism from wind. ,, Onion Juice, Bites of snakes. ,, Infus. of Adjwain, Thirst. ,, Juice of Kussownda, Wind. ,, Radish juice, Offensive breath. ,, Soopearie juice, (rubbed,) Cholicks of children. ,, Gopie earth, Strangury. ,, Cow's Ghee, Bites of snakes. ,, Root of Semel tree, Every thing. ,, Old Goor, Internal heat. ,, Eleachee, (Guzerathee,) Intermittents. ,, Mugrela and salt, Indigestion. ,, Doob grass, Diarrhoea. ,, Mace, externally in Night blindness. ,, Goonchee, in the cure of General Rheumatism. ,, Pith of Bela, Vertigo. ,, Water of burnt wheat, Sunpat.

637 Shaldan.--A kind of rice, in virtue like the Saatie.

638 Shalook.--The root of the Kawul flower, q. v.

639 Shubbe.--Polyanthes Tuberosa. The name of a common flower, which has a strong scent in the night; it is of several kinds, white, yellow, red, and yellowish red. It is hot and dry in the second degree; three direms taken in water, is diuretic, and also useful in suppression of the menses. It expedites the delivery of the dead foetus and of the placenta. Its smell expels mucus from the brain and collections of wind. In those of a hot temperament it produces head-ache. Its corrector is oil of roses, vinegar, or its own oil; the latter is very beneficial both externally and internally used, and possesses all the beneficial properties attributed to the flower. An unguent composed of this, Akirkirrha, and Tokhur Unjeera, applied to the loins, is very beneficial in the two cases mentioned above, and is used both externally and internally in complaints of the uterus, also in rheumatism.

640 Shutawur.--A name for the root of a tree in the jungles, of a prickly kind; its stem and branches are thin, with many smaller ones, about an inch or two inches long in the intervals. Its leaves are very thin and small, somewhat like the Fir tree. The tree itself grows to the height of 9 or 10 feet; its seed resembles the Anboo Saleb. It is sweet, cool, moist, and heavy; cures disorders of wind, mucus, bile, and blood, also swellings of the body. It is aphrodisiac; increases the secretion of milk, and is an ingredient in celebrated formulÊ. For increasing the consistence of semen, and as an aphrodisiac, I have found its conserve and powder of great use. One kind of it is called Kalinta, another Maha Shutawuri; they are cool; cure piles and laxities from indigested food, disorders of the eyes; are cardiac, aphrodisiac, and increase knowledge.

641 Shitawuballie.--A kind of sugar, which cures eruptions from diffused bile, seminal weakness, delirium, nausea, and thirst.

642 Shereefa.--Called also Seetaphill. It is sweet and cardiac; increases semen and removes depression of spirits. If the kernel of the seed, in the quantity of one direm, and dhaie, half rittal, be bruised together and rubbed over the body, in cures of itch, left to dry, and the same repeated several times, the itch will be cured; this I have found to be the case; tried and found effectual. "Annona squamosa."

643 Shuftaloo.--A common fruit of India. Its tree like the Aroo. It is heavy, slow of digestion, cool, but less so than the Aroo; when unripe it is sour. The best is sweet when ripe.

644 Shukur Javan.--Cool; expels wind; strengthens the system; decreases bile, wind, and mucus. A. Toorunjabeen.

645 Shukur Kund.--"Convolvulus Batatas." A common culinary root, sweet and a little hot, and heavy, aphrodisiac, increases semen, and strengthens the brain.

646 Shumie.--Commonly called Seenkur; cool, light, and soft; cures difficulty of respiration, Juzam, piles, disorders of mucus. The dried fruit increases knowledge, causes bile, and the growth of hair.

647 Shunphopee.--A kind of Baer; is emetic, and beneficial in disorders of mucus and bile.

648 Shungirf.--The red sulphuret of mercury. A. Shingerf; sweet and bitter; useful in fever and mucus, also fever from excess of mucus, wind and bile. It is called also Ingoor.