Part 38

841 Kytiputtrie.--Its leaves resemble the Kyte; it is hot and pungent; used in disorders from poison, phlegm in the throat, and seminal weakness.

842 Kyloot.--Cool, astringent; useful in eruptions of the mouth, in mucus, and flatulent disorders.

843 Keora.--Pandanus Odoratissimus, (Roxb.) It is like the Ketki, but it is twice as large; its leaves are prickly, and about the same thickness throughout. It is in fact like a head of Indian corn before its leaves recede. It has a very powerful, penetrating, diffusible scent, more perceptible at a distance than when close; and after it is dried the smell remains. If it is put amongst linen, the smell will adhere to it for a length of time. The plant is about 12 feet high; its leaves resemble the Juwar, and are long and trefoil, with prickles upon all of them; it flowers when four years old. Earth is thrown up round the roots every year. In the Deccan and in Behar, it is very common. A distilled water is made from its flowers, which is cardiac and stomachic.

844 Kethki.--Also Pandanus Odoratissimus, for it is a kind of Keora. The Sirrunkethkie is also a species of this.

845 Kewanch.--Sweet, hot, heavy, and aphrodisiac; produces an increased secretion of semen. Its seed is useful in disorders of wind, and is also aphrodisiac. It is a name for Kabeakudje, and that is a species of Curruf's junglee. It is also a name for Dolichos Pruriens or Cow-itch.

846 Kela.--Musa Paradisiaca. The Plantain or Banana. The tree is straight, about the height of a spear. Its leaves, when young, come out in the form of a round ruler, and are soft as satin, and much resembling it, with cross marks resembling the plaits of cloth. The leaf when expanded is very long and broad. Its flower is a hard substance, of a pyramidal shape, and covered with leaves of a dark-red color. Every tree which has flowered bears 70 or 80 plantains, formed in distinct rows round a centre stem, and the tree bears only once. And the fruit ripe, the tree must be cut down, to leave room for others to spring up from the same root. There are many kinds of this fruit. The best kind is small, and called Imrutbean; and the people of India have said that the camphor is produced from it: but those who say so are ignorant, the camphor tree is very different. Its root is tonic; beneficial in disorders of bile, blood, and mucus, and in gonorrhoea; but it weakens aphrodisia. The fruit is sweet, cool, moist, and heavy; increases flatulence and mucus; useful in disorders of bile, blood, wind, and heat of the chest. A. Mooz. The natives of India dress the unripe fruit with meat, or even dress it alone; and the Hindoos dress the heart of the branches for food. This I have found very effectual as an aphrodisiac and for increasing semen, and as a tonic to the brain. It weakens the stomach, and is heavy; its corrector is cardamum seed. The Yunani physicians say, that its correctors are honey, gum, and ginger.

847 Keetkarode.--A name for Baraicund.

848 Keekur or Babool. "Acacia Arabica, W. Babool, H. Barbura, S. Babool ka Goond (the gum), H. The bark, like that of most of the Acacias, is a powerful astringent, and is used as a substitute for Oak bark in tanning by leather-manufacturers in India. Gomme Arabique, F. Arabischen Gummi, G. Gomma Arabica, I. Vullam pisin, Tam." A common prickly tree of the jungles; its leaves very numerous and small; it is of two kinds, a large and a small. The young trees have very numerous prickles, the old trees have fewer; its bark kept in the mouth relieves cough. Its leaves heated and applied to the eye removes heat and inflammation; both kinds are astringent, hot, and pungent, useful in cough, mucus, and diseases proceeding from mucus; restrain laxatives of the bowels, and are useful in piles. The young leaves infused for a night in water, in the morning bruised in the water, and this drank, will be found very useful in gonorrhoea and itchiness of the bladder.

849 Keet or Keetie. The refuse or scoriÊ of iron; it is sweet, pungent, and hot; beneficial in wind, worms, cholicks, seminal weakness, and swellings.

850 Gehoon.--A name for Gundum. A. Hinta. It is oleaginous and slow of digestion; facilitates the junction of fractured bones. Is soft, tonic, useful in mucus, and increases semen. Its oil is beneficial in Daad and swellings from vitiated bile. The oil is thus made:--White Gehoon is moistened for a night in water, and in the morning the oil is extracted.

851 Geroo.--It is sweet, astringent, and cool; useful in ulcers; clears the skin; beneficial in piles, heat, and incipient phlegmon. It resembles the Gilermonie, and is often substituted for it.

852 Laak.--Common lac is a kind of wax, formed by the Coccus Lacca: cool, moist; clears the color of the skin; is aphrodisiac; useful in disorders of mucus, blood, bile; and is vermifuge. It also cures boils, eruptions, acne, bruises, and Juzam, and removes possession by evil spirits. I have found it to be very aphrodisiac.

This is the gum of the Baer tree. There is one kind of Seed Lac, which when melted becomes like this.

853 Lahi.--A name for Ulsee.

854 Langullie.--The name of a shrub, pungent and hot; useful in disorders of wind, mucus, and ulcers, also in affections of the stomach and bowels; is laxative.

855 Lubhera.--Hot; antidote to poison; useful in blisters, boils, acne, and Juzam; strengthens the hair of the head; is aphrodisiac; useful in disorders of wind, blood, and in hectic fever.

856 Lublie or Lolie. A high tree with very numerous leaves and branches; the leaves are smooth and shining, and when rubbed, have a sweet smell: they are of a yellowish color. Its bark is soft and flexible; the fruit like the Malkungnie, but of a dark-purple color. The properties of the fruit are, that it cures disorders of blood, and piles, superabundance of wind, and eruptions of the mouth. It is light, and the kernel of the seed is of the same nature.

857 Lutoobrie.--Called also Soonitjhal. The plant is about half a yard in height, it grows in the hot weather on the banks of the rivers or near water; brought in contact with the skin, it produces itching and pimples. The Hindoos use it as pickles by cutting the branches in pieces, infusing them in water for several days till they become sour. It is hot, and its juice very useful in ringworm. It in the first place causes a great discharge of water from the parts, and then heals them up. If it is bruised and applied for three days to parts void of sensation, it will produce blisters, and the water being discharged, and common ointment applied to the parts, the cure will be found complete. It dissipates wind. The leaves resemble Tirriteruk; the flower is yellow like the Baboona.

858 Lydoaloo.--"Mimosa Natans." Bitter, astringent, and cool; used in the cure of disorders of mucus and bile, eruptions from diffusion of bile, pains or inflammation in the female parts of generation, and restrains diarrhoea. It is sensitive, and contracts to the touch. I have seen the plants, and noticed that the leaves resembled those of the tamarind, but are smaller. Its branches small, with very minute prickles. It is said that it grows to a yard in height, and that it is so very sensitive that it contracts if a shadow passes over it.

859 Lichmuna.--The female called Lichmunie. It is cool, aperient, and aphrodisiac; useful in disorders of wind, bile and mucus. It is the name of the Nuffaa, also called the small Kuthui.

860 Lichmiphill.--A name for Bele.

861 Lichkutch.--A name for Burhel, also called Lukitch.

862 Lukmunia and Lukmunie. Names for Litchmuna. In A. called Beroogus sunum. P. Mirdumgeea.

863 Loodh'phup.--Sweet, cool, moist, and light; tonic, astringent, and diuretic; relieves disorders of bile, and slightly increases mucus and wind.

864 Lodh.--"Simplocus Racemosa." A kind of this is white. I have not seen the tree; the bark is brought from the hills; thick, and of a white color; both kinds are astringent, cool, and aperient; strengthens the eyes; beneficial in disorders of mucus, blood, and swellings; useful in vomiting of blood, and is laxative. Its flower is sweet, bitter, and astringent; of use in affections of the eyes and mucus; increases the consistence of semen, and is an ingredient in all aphrodisiac formulÊ. The particular manner of its administration I have given in my other publications. The Lodh Pytanee is a kind of this.

Maadentezerrubad.

Lodh is of two kinds, one from Guzeerat, of a reddish clear color, the other from the hills of Hindustan, of a dirty greenish hue, and underneath reddish. The latter is used by the dyers, and the former in medicine. It is beneficial in disorders of the eyes; it is cool, dry, and astringent; restrains vomiting of blood; generally styptic, and as a cold application, removes pain of the eye. Dose one miskal.

865 Lawa.--"Perdix Chinensis." A bird smaller than the partridge; of this the people of India have enumerated four kinds--Bansal, Goruk, Goonderuck, and Durber. The meat of three of them is cool, moist, cardiac, astringent, and stomachic. The first kind is hot, increases mucus, and beneficial in disorders of wind. The second kind is useful in mucous disorders. The third kind is light; its properties in equilibrium; useful as food for the debilitated.