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Its flower is cool and heavy; aphrodisiac; increases the secretion of milk and semen, also mucus; useful in disorders of bile, blood, wind, and in hectic fever. Called Goolchukan.

955 Mahkee.--Its flesh is sweet to the taste; hot and moist, also heavy; useful in disorders of wind, and has a soporific property. It is aphrodisiac, increases semen, strengthens memory, and preserves health. It is a name for the buffalo. A. Jamoos.

956 Mohoka.--"Cuculus Castaneus, Buch." A bird, the note of which is sounded okok, it is also called Uka. Its brain mixed with perfumes, and used as a cephalic in cases of palsy of the tongue, and paralysis, produces sneezing, and gives relief. Its blood is used to extract thorns or heads of arrows from the flesh. Its brain, mixed with sugar and given to children, produces distinct articulation. The flesh is said to be hot and dry, and to strengthen memory. Its fÊces is used as a medicine in difficulty of breathing.

957 Mahaneem.--"Melia sempervirens, W. The leaves of this species of the bead tree have a nauseous taste, devoid of astringency. Flem." Its taste is bitter and astringent; it is cool and dry; removes laxities of the bowels; useful in disorders of mucus, bile, and blood. Is vermifuge; allays vomiting and nausea, and is very powerful in Juzam. It is commonly called Bucaen. Shaikh Boo Ali Seyna, in his work called Kanoon, has written, that Azad is the name of a poisonous tree; and Hakeem Ally has written, that the Azad is the Bucaen tree; others too have followed him up, and stated it to be the Bucaen: but as I have repeatedly exhibited the Bucaen, I know that it possesses no poisonous qualities, consequently this must either be a mistake or a false statement. In the Moasoodie, it is written, that the Bucaen is a tree of India, cool, dry, astringent, vermifuge, beneficial in Juzam, eruptions, disorders of blood, and that it is lithontriptic. If three direms of the seed in powder be taken, it will be found useful in piles, and stop the discharge from bleeding piles; a fumigation of the seeds will also be found useful. The young leaves bruised and taken will correct an increased discharge of the menstrual flux; the leaves heated and applied to piles, or the loins in lumbago, will give great relief, and as an application to boils it exceeds the Neem in virtue. The seeds bruised and rubbed among the hair will kill vermin; and the bark burnt, and with equal parts of Kuth, applied to the mouth, will cure eruptions.

958 Mendi.--A name for Hinna, "Lawsonia Inermis."

959 Mahasutawurie.--A kind of Shatawur.

960 Mahawunth.--A kind of Kudum.

961 Mahameed.--A species of this is called Meede. Both are cool, heavy, sweet to the taste; improve the senses; are powerfully tonic; increase milk and semen; are aphrodisiac, increase phlegm, cure eruptions from cold, cough from bile, but increase cough from phlegm. This medicine is very scarce, and seldom met with.

962 Mahawur.--Its properties come near those of the Lac. It is useful in discoloured specks on the face, and acne punctata; bruised and introduced into the ear, it cures the ear-ache.

963 Mendi Anwul.--A kind of Anwul.

964 Mayursuka.--Light; cures disorders of bile and mucus, and restrains laxities of the bowels.

965 Mayoorshuka.--The Moorshuka.

966 Mendha.--P. Meshe. Its flesh is heavy, moist, tonic; increases wind and bile. This is the name of the male, and his meat is preferable to the female. "Ram."

967 Mynphill.--"Gardenia Dumetorum, Kˆen. Vangueria Spinosa, Roxb." Bitter and hot, astringent and dry, light and emetic; useful in disorders of mucus and Juzam, swellings, flatulence, and dryness of the seven Dhats, Badgola, and is suppurating.

968 Methie.--"Trigonella Foenum-grÊcum, Wild." Hot and dry; exhilarates the spirits; creates appetite; induces costiveness; is vermifuge, and decreases semen. Its seed is useful in cough, nausea, and disorders of mucus. A. Hoolba.

969 Mydhasingie.--A kind of Doodie.

970 Myoorjung.--A name for Aoloo; obtains its name from its stem resembling in straightness the peacock's leg.

971 Meed.--Vide Mahameed.

972 Meetanimboo.--Called also, Rajenimboophill, and in P. Shukurleemboo.

973 Nalee or Narie.--A small plant, which lies on the ground. Its leaves somewhat like the tamarind leaf. In some works the Narie is separately described. Its qualities are hot, and it is discutient; useful in affections of wind from cold; is laxative and beneficial in disorders of the mouth.

974 Naryil.--"Cocos nucifera." A tree like the Taar or Khoojoor; its fruit is oval, and betwixt that and its covering is a fibrous substance in considerable quantities; its weight from half a rittal to one or more. It is cool; slow of digestion; expels gravel; induces costiveness; is aphrodisiac and tonic; useful in disorders of wind, blood, bile, general heat; and its water is cool, light and cardiac; increases appetite and semen. If not quickly drunk, and has become fermented, it produces some degree of intoxication, raises the spirits, and is tonic. Its cheese, when first produced, resembles milk, and is said to be very sweet; it afterwards becomes hardened, and increases semen, wind, and disorders of bile. Bullienas, a physician, has related, that if a torch is made of the rind and coir, and burnt in the midst of a large company, it will produce so soporific an effect as to put them all to sleep.

975 Naringee.--Some have stated this to be a name for Narinje, but this is a mistake; it is produced in Indostan. Its properties are less powerful than Sungterra or Kowla, but its acid greater.

"Narinje is the Citrus Aurantium, or Nagaranga, San. Rind stomachic; juice acid and bitter."

976 Nagesur.--"Mesua ferrea." Indian rose chestnut? A seed smaller than the Kubabcheenee; the plant is thin, and its stem long. It is dry, light, corrects indigested food; cures or removes offensive smell from the perspiration; useful in Juzam, acne, mucus, and poisons; it is said to be a name for Narmusk.

977 Nagdown.--Mugwort? Cures boils and eruptions, and is an antidote to the poison of spiders and snakes. A. Huleyoon, Artemisia Vulgaris.

978 Nagdumnie.--A wood resembling a snake, from which it obtains its name. It coils round like the snake, and may easily be mistaken for that reptile. It is bitter; increases the size of the muscles; is tonic and light; used in disorders of bile and mucus, gonorrhoea, eruptions, Lues Venerea, and poisons; it remedies laxities of the bowels.

979 Murdok.--A shrub, found in the hills; its leaves like those of the cucumber, its root called Davaun nemr. The leopard eats the root, which produces a swelling near its tail on the back: this is called Hadjurun nemr. P. Nirkpulung. This if bruised, and applied to the carbuncle, will expedite its cure; and if a woman applies it to the parts of generation, she will not conceive; and if her husband visits another woman after having been with her, she will not conceive. It is a runnet, and coagulates milk. If preserved about your person, and you visit a baker's shop, the bread will fall from the oven into the fire. It is about the size of a clove of garlic, and is variegated on its surface like the skin of the tiger.

980 Nadey.--A species of Jamin.