Part 41

913 Murorphillie.--"Helieteres Isora." A medicine of India. P. Kistburkisht (Sheeraree Pechuc); a long twisted shrub, having a single flower, of a purple color; its leaves resemble the scorpion's tail; hot and dry in the 2nd degree; some call it hot in the 1st and dry in the 2nd degree. It assists digestion, and clears the skin; removes thickened and viscid mucus, and forms an ingredient in all children's medicines. As an external application, it is useful in swellings from cold, in itch or daad, expels wind, and decreases milk or semen; its corrector is Hubbeh senobir; its succedaneum thrice its weight of Sibr (aloes). Dose one direm.

914 Missie.--A shrub of India, about a yard high; its branches thin and its leaves like the Kussowndie: its branches are knotted, and when slit open, an insect is found in them, which is given to the Boolbul, when training them to fight. Its flower is very small, of a reddish yellow, like the Gowzeban; it is also called the Kakjunga, q. v.

915 Musoor.--P. Adiess. A common grain of the pea tribe; cool, light, and astringent; useful in disorders of mucus, bile, and blood, and is sweet during digestion.

916 Mustchagundka.--A kind of sugar, useful in eruptions from diffused bile, seminal weakness, delirium, nausea, and thirst.

917 Mukoond.--Sweet to the taste; bitter in digestion; hot and dry; light; decreases corpulence; induces costiveness and wind; it is a kind of grain.

918 Muggur.--A. Tumsa. (The Alligator.) Its flesh is greasy and heavy; used in disorders of wind, and increases mucus and semen.

919 Muko.--A name for Anbus saleb. P. Sugangoor. Very beneficial in swellings. Its juice is useful in increasing the eyesight, and for restraining the menstrual flux; cool and moist.

920 Mug Peepul.--A kind of Peepul.

921 Moogta Sukut.--A name for the shell of the pearl-oyster; it is sweet and pungent, used in mucous disorders, difficulty of breathing, pains of the chest and bowels, and loss of appetite.

922 Moogtaphill.--A name for the pearl.

923 Mukhara.--Commonly called Mukhana, Euryale ferox. It is cool and heavy, useful in disorders of wind, mucus, and blood; is aphrodisiac, and increases semen; and is found very beneficial to women after labor. It is often called Talmukhana, but it is quite a different medicine.

924 Mullagheer.--The name of a tree, the wood of which is very heavy, and full of veins. It is brought from a distance; when pounded, it is of a reddish black color, has fine smell, and is used in India for dying and for giving a pleasant odour to clothes. It is cardiac, strengthens the brain, and gives a pleasant effluvia to the perspiration; cures discolorations of the skin of the face, and in some Indian works is called a species of Sandal. Its properties are the same with Rukutchunden.

925 Mulleka.--A kind of the flower of the Rai-bele: it is hot, light, aphrodisiac; cures disorders of wind, eruptions of the mouth, and all affections thereof.

926 Mulleen.--A root of India, of a clay color; hot, dry, and pungent; if bruised and applied to the head, it kills vermin; it destroys maggots in ulcers; the leaves possess the same property. I knew a man who had severe head-aches from maggots in the brain: I squeezed the juice of this into the nose, it killed and brought them away.

927 Moondie.--A. Raderyoos. "Spheranthus Indicus." It is also called Tuppodenie, so denominated from its being used in penance; if any one preserves a constant respect for this, he will become the peculiar favorite of Heaven. It is also called Srawanie; this name is derived from the circumstance of its bearing fruit in the month Srawun. The leaf is somewhat like the mint, the flower round or globulated, and of a rose-color; it has a sweet smell, and is a medicine of great virtue. It is sweet and a little bitter, but very much so during digestion; it is hot, light; increases understanding; is vermifuge; useful in boils and eruptions of an obstinate nature; is pungent; cures pains in the parts of generation of the female, marasmus, gonorrhoea, and disorders of bile. If the plant be pulled out by the root before it flowers, and dried in the shade, and ate with wheat flour, cow's ghee, and sugar, it will restore and preserve youth, and prevent the hair from becoming grey; and if pounded and often used in powder, it will be found peculiarly tonic. If its seed be ate with sugar, it will preserve health to the extreme of old age.

An old man is said to have eaten a preparation of this for a year constantly: the strength of youth was restored to him, and he lived to the age of 205 years. The physicians of India declare this to be the basis of the Elixir VitÊ. If the plant is taken before it flowers, and is bruised and eaten with ghee and honey, both the strength and appearance of youth will be preserved. Indeed, the extent of its virtues is only known to the most scientific of physicians. If its flowers are eaten for 40 days, the same effect will be produced; and the root used without intermission for a year, incalculable benefit will be the result. If the root and leaves be bruised and eaten for three days, with cow's milk and honey, it will be found highly aphrodisiac. If one of the seeds be swallowed without water, the eye-sight will be preserved, and no affection of the eyes will take place for a year. If two are swallowed, the eye-sight will be preserved for two years, and so on. I used it myself in my infancy, or early days, and have preserved my sight in a wonderful manner. My uncle used the distilled water of this, in depression of the spirits, and as a cardiac, with great success: he sometimes distilled from equal parts of this and Gowjeban, at other times with other cardiac medicines. If half a masha of the oil of this be ate with Paan in the cold weather, it will produce a genial warmth over the body; it will also remove affections from cold, and be found aphrodisiac. The oil is thus procured:

The plant is moistened with water, and then rubbed between the hands with any sweet-scented oil, but not too much; it is then to be extracted in the same manner as that of Agur is procured. If a chittack of the following oil be eaten daily for 40 days, and during this time abstaining from intercourse with woman, it will be found that the aphrodisiac power will have become so great, that it will seem wonderful. It is thus prepared:

Take the leaves, root, and all parts of the plant; bruise them, sprinkling a little water over them; then squeeze out 20 seers of the juice, and add to it five seers of sweet oil; boil the whole till the juice shall have evaporated, and the residue is the oil. Some use the medicine in this manner. During the months of August and September, with cow's ghee. In April and May, with honey. In June and July, with sugar. In February and March, with congee. In October and November, with cow's milk; and in December and January, with sour milk. The author of the Dhara Shekoi has said that the root is to be bruised in a copper vessel, with a pestle of the Neeb tree, adding a little water, till it has become black; then taken up by dipping cotton into it, and preserved for use. In the ophthalmia, a little of the cotton moistened and applied to the eye, will remove the disease.

Maadentezerrubad.

Moondie is a medicine of India, of two kinds, a large and small; its flowers are like buttons, and it is of a bitterish, astringent taste. It is cool and dry in the 1st degree, and is, in the opinion of some, in equilibrium: both kinds of it are beneficial in disorders of the blood, white leprosy, epilepsy, heart-burn, elephantiasis, cough, incessant vomiting, diarrhoea, flatulence, all disorders of the eyes, feverish head-ache, itch, heat in the chest, marasmus, and all bilious disorders; it creates appetite, and is aphrodisiac.

928 Munn.--P. Morhoemarh. A. Hujuroolheya. A stone found in the nape of the neck of a snake of the Cobra species, but it is not found in all; when in the reptile, it is soft, but it hardens by exposure to the air. It has a variegated surface, and its virtues are these, that if rubbed on a blue or black woollen cloth, it will deprive the cloth of its color; also, if applied to any part bitten by a reptile, it will adhere till it shall have extracted the poison. If it be put into milk, it will change its color. If it is applied to the bite of a snake, it will extract the poison. And if it be eaten, no snake can ever by its bite produce hurtful effects on your system.

929 Munsul.--Bitter, pungent, hot, and moist; heavy and aperient; an antidote to poisons; cures affections of mucus, blood, difficulty of breathing, and cough; clears the color of the skin, reduces corpulency; and removes possession by evil spirits. It is called Zernikh Soorkh. "Red Sulphuret of Arsenic."

930 Moondookpurnie.--A kind of Birumbie.

931 Mundar.--A small shrub, of two kinds; both bitter, pungent, hot, and laxative; useful in disorders of mucus, and increase of fat in the abdomen, itch, and swellings; and is an antidote to poisons.

932 Moot.--P. Shasha, or Kumeer. A. Bowl. Urine. That of cows, buffaloes, horses, goats, camels, rams, and men, is saltish and bitter; dry, light, aperient, and cardiac; increases appetite and relish for food; useful in general swellings; clears the brain and all excretory passages; increases bile; beneficial in disorders of wind, Badgola, piles, and dropsy; is vermifuge, and used in Juzam, marasmus, flatulence, internal itchiness, and want of appetite.

Cow's is the best and most effectual. Elephant's urine is an antidote to poisons, and generally vermifuge; useful in Juzam and Badgola. Buffalo's, beneficial in swellings, Badgola, piles, marasmus, and seminal weakness. Horse's is aperient; cures disorders of mucus, and Daad. Goat's is an antidote to poisons; removes difficulty of breathing, jaundice, and marasmus. Ram's cures emaciation, swellings, Juzam, piles, seminal weakness, and costiveness. Ass's is lithontriptic; useful in seminal weakness, Juzam, idiotism, internal itchiness, and dropsy, and is vermifuge.

Human urine is an antidote to poison, and particularly tonic. When a choice is to be made between male and female, this rule may be observed. Of the cow, sheep, and goat, the female; of elephant, horse, camel, and ass, the male; also the male of the human subject. Should a person at any time feel symptoms of indigestion, and be afraid of the consequences, a little of his own urine will relieve all unpleasant sensations and expedite digestion, but this can only be resorted to by people of no caste.

933 Monje.--The leaf and external fibrous covering of a kind of reed like grass, used to make rope. It is equally cold and hot; useful in acne, disorders of blood, diseases of the eyes, and all complaints affecting the urinary bladder, or urethra.