755 Gulhar.--"Nymphea Nilambo, Linn. Nilumbium Speciosum, W." The flower of the Kawul (Lotus). It is cool, dry, heavy, and astringent, and shuts up the chest. The centre of the flower, or yellow fructification, is called Kesur, or Kinjeluk; it is cool; induces costiveness; useful in bleeding piles; also in disorders of bile and mucus. Its seed is usually called Kawulgutta; they are produced in the hot season; they are sweet, cool; beneficial in bilious disorders, foulness of blood, general heat, and increase mucus and wind. I have given them in the diarrhoea of infants, mixed with the water which they drank, with great benefit. The green part of the seed bruised in water, I have also given to children with great good effect in wind and diarrhoea. It is likewise given in eruptions of the mouth. The stem of the flower and root are cool and dry; aphrodisiac, astringent, and cure disorders of bile, blood, and general heat. The flowers are of two kinds: one opens to the sun, and accompanies him round as he moves, and shuts its leaves when he disappears; this is white, with a red tinge, six-leaved, the yellow centre fructification, in the shape of an inverted cone. Its seed is sweet and cool; clears the complexion; of use in disorders of mucus, bile, blood, thirst, general heat, Juzam, and blisters. It is an antidote to poisons, and beneficial in acne of all kinds. The other kind has four leaves, of a white color, opens to the moon, and accompanies her, in progress, as the other does the sun; but does not shut on her disappearance. The red and blue kinds, if they have any degree of whiteness, are called Komode or Komoodutti; these names are in allusion to their property of flowering by the moon's influence, but they are more seldom met with. The blue is called also Neeloofir. 756 Goolkhairoo.--The marsh-mallow, or rather the mallow. 757 Kulumbuk.--A tree of a heavy texture, much veined; it is commonly called Mulugeer, but this name is also applied to some kinds of lime. 758 Kooleejan.--"Piper Betel." The best kind is red, thick, and full of knots. It is hot and dry in the 2nd degree; it is cardiac; cures cholicks, pains in the kidnies; increases the strength of the digestive organs, useful in rheumatism of the joints, decreases the flow of urine; beneficial in epilepsy, headache; is aphrodisiac; and is proper for those having a superabundance of mucus. A little kept in the mouth will cure paralysis of the tongue; it clears the voice, and in the quantity of one direm with cow's milk taken, fasting, it is highly tonic and aphrodisiac. Its corrector is any oily substance or Kuteera (a gum). 759 Koolunta.--A kind of Satawur. 760 Keloondha.--A name for the fruit of the Mowa tree. 761 Kulownjee.--A name for Siadana; expels wind and flatulence. 762 Kumode or Komoodutti, a kind of Gulhar. "Rottlera tinctoria."