Part 36

800 Kokla.--"Indian Cuckoo." A black bird, which in the commencement of the hot weather has a fine and strong note; its flesh creates appetite, induces costiveness, and is useful in disorders of wind and mucus.

801 Goh.--The Guana. Its flesh is tonic, aphrodisiac, stomachic, and used in disorders of bile and wind. A. Zubbub. P. Soosmar.

802 Kowadoorie.--A. Hubbunneel.

803 Gokhroo also Kunthphill; cures difficulty of breathing, cough, and suppression of urine. Is lithontriptic; useful in affections of the heart and wind.

A. Khussuk. It is of two kinds, a cultivated and wild. Its plant is like the melon; its branches spreading widely on the ground. Its fruit is hard and triangular, with prickles on its angles; thus it is called Gokhroo. P. Kharkhusuk. There is a larger kind called Gokhroo Dekanee. In the Dhunterri, it is said to be beneficial in the three secretions, to create appetite, beneficial in dysentery and pains of the bowels, to increase semen, induce corpulency, to be cool, sweet, and aphrodisiac, tonic, useful in seminal weakness, gonorrhoea, and pains in the urinary bladder. "Tribulus Lanuginosus."

804 Gowdunta.--A kind of arsenic, of a light red color.

805 Gota.--Sweet, bitter, pungent, hot, light, and aphrodisiac; useful in Soorkhbad, acne, cough, Juzam, and disorders of wind and bile.

806 Kookurchundie.--Obtains the name from its being an emetic to dogs.

807 Kookurbangra.--A name for Kukrownda.

808 Goondroo or Goonderuk. A name for Koondur, a gum resembling Mastich, but more red; it cures disorders of wind, mucus, and fever; restrains perspiration; is aphrodisiac; strengthens memory; gives tone to the stomach, urinary bladder, brain.

809 Googul.--Amygris Agalocha (Roxb.) sweet and bitter, hot and aperient; increases appetite; increases the bulk of the solids, and is aphrodisiac; reunites fractured bones, discusses indurations; used in disorders of wind, mucus, blood, boils, eruptions, ill-conditioned ulcers, seminal weakness, Juzam, Soorkhbad, debility, emaciation, sweating sickness, acne, and swellings. The older it is the more effectual. It forms an ingredient in all favorite formulÊ. A. Mukul. One kind is called Bhainsia Googul.

810 Goondinie.--A common fruit of Hindostan, of a red color, and fine coat, about the size of the Khalsa, or larger, and more oval. It is aperient, suppurant, and vermifuge. It is sweet and cool; of use in cough and flatulence, but if taken in quantity, produces nausea.

811 Gooha.--A name for Perestpirnie; also the name of an insect like the cricket, but larger; it makes much noise in the rains.

812 Goolur.--"Ficus Glomerata." A common fruit; when young, it is green, but when ripe, it becomes red, and in this state it is filled with small insects; it is said that if eaten without being opened, it will be found beneficial for the eyes. It is called cool and dry; some say hot and moist: but in my opinion it is cool and moist, and decreases bile. My father prescribed it in its unripe state in laxities of the bowels, and also in bleeding piles. The physicians of India have described it as astringent; it is slow of digestion. The bark of the tree is useful in ulcers, and as an external application in severe bruises. Water drank after its use, produces pain in the bowels. The Goolur eat with barley-meal or sugar, is useful in giddiness and heat in the liver. Its milk applied to boils, hasten suppuration or resolution.

Maadentezerrubad.

Goolur is cool and moist; useful in bilious complaints, heat, thirst, and running at the nose from heat. The decoction of the bark removes poison from wounds inflicted by the claws of the tiger, cat, or other animal. The root bruised in water is useful in dysentery, in a dose of two direms.

813 Goonma.--"Pharnaceum mollugo." The plant grows in waste and wild places, and is very common. It is about a yard high, and grows in the rains; it is many-flowered; and when young they are of a red color, but become grey when dry, and full of small holes; they are round and curled.

814 Koonda.--Koonda, called also Pita. A. Midjdubeh, and in P. Puzdubeh. It is a creeper; its leaves like the Gourd leaf, or larger; its fruit twice as large as a melon. When unripe, it is cooling, and useful in bilious disorders and wind; it increases mucus. When ripe, it is sweet and pungent; it is equal in its properties; light; creates appetite; assists digestion; useful in disorders of the stomach and of the three secretions. The fibres of its root, its leaves, and branches, are sweet; beneficial in disorders of wind and mucus; are lithontriptic: the soft part of the fruit is sweet, removes gravel and other disorders of the urinary bladder; cures bilious disorders, and is aphrodisiac. The particular mode of administering it, I have described in my other works. It is very useful as an aphrodisiac, and for increasing the bulk of the solids. Cucurbita Pepo.

Its sherbet is useful in all the disorders above mentioned, also in depression of spirits from heat, in mania or disordered imagination; increases appetite and evacuates bile.

The sherbet is thus prepared:

A piece is cut off from the end of the fruit, and the inside scooped out till the hand can be admitted; this is to be filled with fine sugar, taking care to preserve all the juice. The divided piece is then to be re-applied, the division secured with moistened flour; it is then placed in the sun, during the hot season, for four days, or in the cold weather for a week. It by this process becomes acid like oxymel; the juice is then taken out, strained, and seasoned with cardamums, saffron, musk, and cloves, or other articles as may be deemed proper, and preserved in bottles for use; the dose is four tolahs, but it will not keep good beyond a week.

815 Khaer.--Vide Kut. "Acacia Catechu, Mimosa Catechu. Chadira, S." A tree of the jungles, from which Catechu is produced. It is called also Cudder. "One of the best applications in ulcers I ever tried, is composed of Catechu, Camphor, and white lead, in equal parts."--Trans.

816 Geerehti.--A plant, about a yard high, or less; the largest kind is named Geerehta, also Mahabela. Its leaves are larger, as well as the tree, than the Geerehtee; but the latter is to be preferred as a medicine. It is sweet, cool, moist, and astringent, useful in Soorkhbad, disorders of bile, affections of the uterus, and clears the complexion.

817 Kherie.--An earth of a white color used in cleaning houses; one kind of it is called Goorboghan.

818 Kyrnie.--One kind of it is named Chupuk. It is the fruit of a very large tree, of a yellow color, about the size of a date, but thicker; both kinds are cool and moist, heavy and tonic; useful in thirst, delirium, heaviness of the head, and disorders of all the secretions. If the kernel is bruised in water and applied to the eyes, it will remove opacities of the cornea--this I know from my grand-father's experience.

In my opinion, it is cardiac and stomachic, and gently astringent; when ripe it is very generally useful. Some have called it hot in the second and dry in the first degree. If eaten when unripe, there is fear of its producing cholic. Its corrector is dhaie. The kernel is bitter.

819 Koontanduk.--A kind of Rice, like the Saatee in its properties.

820 Ghora.--P. Asp. The horse; its meat is sweet to the taste, but bitter in digestion. It is light, creates appetite, increases bile and mucus, beneficial in disorders of wind, and increases aphrodisia. It is generally tonic, and strengthens the eyes. I have often eat of it, and believe it to be hot and tonic, but it is hurtful to those of hot temperament. In some countries, it is used as food, and it was so used by Vizier Nawab Kumruddin Khan. I have remarked, that when used in this country as food by the natives of other countries, it produces a fermentation in the blood, and consequent eruptions in the mouth and tongue. Its properties are particularly noticed in Yunani works, and I have conversed with many who considered the milk of the mare excellent as a stomachic and aphrodisiac.