Part 42

934 Mooser.--Sweet, bitter, heavy; promotes appetite, cures piles and disorders of wind; increases semen, and is an ingredient in all tonic prescriptions. I fancy this is the Shukakool.

935 Moocherus.--"Bombax Heptaphyllum. The tree." The gum of the Sembill tree, also so named by the author of the Dhara Shekoi, but it is commonly understood to be the flower of the Soopearie tree. It is cool, heavy, and astringent; increases semen; restrains diarrhoea; increases the tone of the digestive organs; removes disorders of blood, bile, mucus, and general heat.

Maadentezerrubad.

Moocherus is of two kinds, one according to some is the gum of the Sahajena, and by the account of others, that of the Sembill tree. It is red, heavy, and difficult of digestion. The other kind is the flower of the Soopearie; both kinds are cool, dry, astringent, and aphrodisiac; strengthen the back, kidnies, and loins; increase semen, and lengthen aphrodisia. Its corrector is sugar and cow's ghee. The succedaneum is Kummarkuss.

936 Mohuk also Bohuk; useful in disorders of mucus and wind, and slightly increases bile; some have said that this is the Mowa.

937 Mokhun.--The name of a tree, hot and astringent; useful in diseases of wind and mucus, in worms in the stomach, and pain therefrom, rheumatic pains in the joints and bones, and its gum is aphrodisiac; increases the bulk of the muscles, and of use in disorders of bile and wind.

938 Moong.--"Phaseolus Mungo." And one kind, which grows wild. It is cool, dry, light, and astringent; used in disorders of mucus and bile; strengthens the eyes, and is fit and proper food for the sick; it however weakens the stomach--this I know by experience. If given to a person of weak digestive organs, it will be passed unchanged, although other food will be digested. I therefore conclude that it is too difficult of assimilation to be used with advantage, as here recommended. It weakens aphrodisia. P. Maash.

939 Moth.--A grain of India; cool; some say in equilibrium. It is dry, quick of digestion, and if used with cow's ghee, its flavor will be much improved. It cleanses the blood, is sweet during digestion, relieves wind, and removes laxities of the bowels; some indeed have called it aperient: cures mucus disorders, strokes of the wind or sun, and removes fever. It produces worms.

940 More.--The Peacock? Its flesh is hot, aphrodisiac, and tonic; beneficial in diseases of the ear, colds, dryness, and creates appetite; increases understanding, thickens the hair of the head, strengthens eye-sight, cleans the voice, and beautifies the complexion. It ought to be ate in the cold season, as it is not so beneficial in the hot winds and rains. P. Taous.

941 Morba.--A medicine of India. Its root hard, and of a clay color; hot and dry in the 2nd degree: used as an external application in swellings of the throat, and one direm of it eaten, it will loosen phlegm from the throat.

942 Motha.--"Cyperus rotundus. Cyperus pertenuis, Roxb." A name for Saad; bitter, astringent, and cool; inducing costiveness; assisting digestion; used in disorders of blood, mucus, bile, and fever; removes thirst, and is vermifuge.

943 Moom.--Soft and greasy, cures pain of bruises; and boils; assists the growth of granulations in wounds, and the junction of fractured bones; useful in affections of wind, blood, and Juzam. A. Shuma.

944 Mookul..--Restrains laxities of the bowels, is heavy and tonic; useful in disorders of bile and wind, creates appetite, and is very aphrodisiac.

945 Moolie or Moolug.--Hot and light, creates appetite, clears the voice, benefits affections of the throat, the olfactory nerves, and the three secretions; dried, it is light and very beneficial in piles, swelling, stone and gravel. Salt extracted from the radish in the usual way, by being dried and burned, is diuretic; useful in suppressions of urine, and promotes digestion.

946 Motie.--Its properties nearly resembling those of Chunder Kanth, q. v.

947 Moonga.--A name for Mirjhan; bitter and sweet; useful in disorders of bile, heat, wind, and mucus; increases semen and is cardiac.

948 Mowlserie.--Mimusops Elengi. Bukool, H. Sweet, astringent, and cool; causes intoxication, raises the spirits and is an antidote to poisons. Its flowers have a sweet smell; the fruit is cool, sweet, and astringent; improves the color of the skin, and imparts a pleasant taste to the mouth. I have found the fruit to be cardiac and stomachic; the root is beneficial in seminal weakness, in strengthening the loins, and increasing the consistence of semen. Its name is also Bowlserie.

Maadentezerrubad.

Bowlserie is cool and dry; its bark and root useful in thickening semen, and remedying too great seminal irritability: if its bark is boiled in milk, and as a gargle, it will remove tooth-ache. The flowers are somewhat hot, cardiac, and stomachic; its distilled water is intoxicating, and useful in disorders of bile, thirst, and delirium.

949 Mooslee or Mooslicund.--Sweet and cool; removes bile and heat; increases a proper secretion of mucus, and if eaten with sweet oil, it will relieve discharges from the nose from cold. Used with rock salt, it will increase appetite; with water it will remove pains in the bowels. It is of several kinds: black and white. The former resembles the Shakakool, but the bark of the Shakakool is white, whereas this is black; the white kind is thin, and resembles Mahi roobyan, called also Mooslie Dukanee. Another kind is also white, and thinner than the black kind, yet thicker than the Dukanee. All three kinds are used in aphrodisiac formulÊ; some have called it hot, and useful in piles and disorders of wind. If half a direm be taken with Zeera, it will be found beneficial in Jaundice; and if taken with equal parts of good ginger, it will cure indigestion. If eaten with the leaves of Punskisht in equal parts, it will remedy offensive perspiration, and with Streephill, it will remove seminal weakness; with Peepul, it will cure Hydrophobia, and with Anula it cures intermittents.

Maadentezerrubad.

Mooslie is of two kinds, black and white; the black is called Mooslie Dukanee, dry in the first degree, and hot in the second; some say hot in the first degree and dry in the second. It is aphrodisiac, and increases semen; removes head-ache from phlegm and seminal weakness, (3 direms with as much of the white of the cocoanut.) In giddiness it is administered with honey; as a tonic with milk and Isgun; for injuries of the labiÊ and vagina with Darfelfil; for carbuncle with Zemicund; for dropsy, with camel's milk or Mocoe water. As an antidote to poison, with Kawanch seed; in quartan ague, with cold water; in Soorkhbad, with Tirphilla; in habitual fever, with cow's urine; in pains in the bowels, with hot-water; in the bite of a snake, with sugar, honey, or Tincar; in deafness, with mint or Kanjee for seven days; in black jaundice, with Baberung; and for gonorrhoea or diabetes, with water.

In the opinion of the Hindoos, this is the best of all medicines, and the black kind the most powerful for medicinal purposes.

950 Moorsheka.--A tree, whose leaves growing like the plume of the peacock, has obtained for it this name. It is sweet and acid; useful in disorders of bile, wind, mucus, and heat.

951 Mogra.--"Jasminum Zambac. Magorium." A flower very common; sweet and cool, and of a pleasant smell; raises the spirits; removes bile; improves weakness of sight, affections of the mouth, and ulcers. There are seven kinds of it.

952 Musakunie.--A shrub of two kinds, the first rises only about four inches, more or less, and has on both sides of it two leaves, like a mouse; the other kind remains on the ground, like the leaf of the Doodie. Its flower is of a blue color; the first kind is scarce: both are hot, bitter, and diuretic, and useful in disorders of bile and mucus; it is called Murzunjoosh.

953 Maha Moondie.--A kind of Moondie, of a larger kind; its flower as large as the Kudum flower; its properties the same as the Bhoomkudum.

954 Mahwa.--"Bassia latifolia." A tree as large as the mangoe; its leaves large and thick; its wood used in building, very common to the eastward. A spirit is distilled from its flower; its fruit is named Kelownda; the unripe shell of it dressed with meat much improves its flavor. It is hot and dry. One kind of it is named Rahisphill. The decoction, the distilled water and spirit, have an offensive smell, produce giddiness, and much subsequent uneasiness. The flower when just blown is white, but as it becomes ripe assumes a yellow color like the Benowlee, but larger, and it is sweet to the taste. The kernel of its fruit gives an oil of a white color, and is used to adulterate ghee. Its properties are said to be, that it is useful in mucus and wind, and cicatrizes wounds.