Part 47

1042 Hingote.--A tree; hot in its properties; useful in Juzam, boils, and eruptions; is an antidote to poisons, and to possession by evil spirits; beneficial in white leprosy and worms in the stomach. Its fruit is the size of the large Hurrhoe, and even larger, though when dried it remains about that size. The tree is about the size of a small Neeb tree.

1043 Hunspeedie.--A small shrub, growing close to the ground; its branches thin; its leaves small like the Doodie; it is cool and heavy; useful in disorders of blood, poisons, boils, eruptions, acne, general heat, and possession by evil spirits. It induces costiveness, and is used to counteract the effects of poison of the Tarantula.

1044 Hingpootrie.--It is of two kinds, both pungent and saltish; hot and cardiac; assist digestion; beneficial in pains at the heart, and of the urinary bladder; induces costiveness; remedies piles, disorders of mucus, and Badgola.

1045 Huns.--The flesh is hot and moist; heavy and aphrodisiac; clears the voice and complexion; promotes appetite; beneficial in Soorkhbad and disorders of bile. P. Haaz.----Goose.

1046 Hhoobaer.--A seed about the size and color of the Phalsa, sometimes larger; it is said, that when young, it is red, and when ripe it becomes black. It is a kind of hill Serroe; its leaves like the Jhow. In its taste, it is pungent and bitter, astringent and hot, heavy, and beneficial in disorders of wind, bile, dropsy, and piles; is lithontriptic and vermifuge, and in the quantity of three direms, it expedites the expulsion of the dead foetus e utero. It will cure suppression of the menses, but if ate during pregnancy, will produce abortion. A. Abhul.

1047 Heeng.--Pungent and saltish, also hot; promotes appetite and digestion; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, internal itchiness, Badgola, flatulence, and pains in the bowels; is vermifuge; increases bile, and is aphrodisiac. It increases the power of all tonics and aphrodisiac prescriptions, but the particulars I have mentioned in my other works.

1048 Heeraclokhi. A. Dummul Echwder.

1049 Heerakussees.--A kind of Chund Kussees.

1050 Heera.--The name for Almass.

1051 Haimowtie.--A name for Hurrh.

1052 Habooka.--A denomination for Hhoobaer.

1053 Hingool.--A name for Shungirf.

SENSATIONS OF BURNING IN THE HANDS AND FEET.

This is of two kinds, a dry, and a sweating, kind. The method of cure among the natives is as follows:

Sweating kind.

Take of Chook, Khoot, Lahoria Nemuk, each two parts; Black Till Oil, 12 parts; mix and rub in for 14 days.

Dry kind.

Let a hole be dug in the earth, and fire kindled therein, till the ground becomes well heated; strew the bottom of the excavation with Mudar leaves, and sprinkle on them new milk, till the fumes arise. The feet to be placed in the hole, on the leaves, and a blanket to be spread over, and round the knees, to prevent the escape of the heated vapour. In this manner the patient is to sit till the place becomes cold; and this is to be repeated for seven days, when the cure will be complete.

In the opinion of the Physicians of Hindostan, the human frame is divided into seven principal parts. These are chyle, blood, muscles, fat, bones, brain, marrow, and semen.

THE TASTES ARE SIX: VIZ.

Sweet, Increasing Semen, milk, eye-sight, asthma, obesitas, worms, and affections of the throat. Curing Wind and bile. Cool and stomachic; creating appetite. Acid, Increasing Mucus, bile, emaciation, fermentation of the blood. Curing Wind. Salt, Increasing Appetite, digestion, mucus, bile, wind, and disorders of blood. Curing or decreasing aphrodisia, and generally relaxant. Light. Bitter, Increasing Bile, wind, dryness, and heat. Decreases Milk. Dry and light. Pungent, Increases Appetite and milk. Decreases Thirst and fever. Dry. Astringent, Increases Wind and flatulence. Decreases Wounds, ulcers, and laxities.

The general prescriptions and favorite formulÊ, mentioned throughout the work, are Tonics, which preserve health, lengthen life, and strengthen the system.

The principal secretions or humours are four in number; viz. mucus (or phlegm), bile, wind, and blood. When three of these are said to be increased or diminished, it is to be understood, that blood is not to be included. In fact, it never is, unless particularly specified.

DEGREES.

"The Yunani physicians, in specifying the different degrees of virtue, or power of their medicines, include in the

"First Degree.--All those whose effects are not felt in common doses.

"Second Ditto.--Such medicines as have perceptible effects; but in a moderate degree.

"Third Ditto.--Those of greater power, the exhibition of which must be conducted with caution.