787 Gowrdun.--A name for Koocha, called also Sutpootrie. It is the name
of the Kooza flower, red with a yellow fructification in the centre. It
has a fine perfume, and a distilled water is made from it; it is
a cinquefoil. One kind of it is the Goolseutie, P. Aussureen. This
is white, but a third kind is also red. All three are cool, light,
and aphrodisiac; useful in disorders of the three secretions and of
blood. It is cardiac, astringent, and improves the complexion. I have
found the white the most effectual, and have often used its conserve
and distilled water in lowness of spirits.
788 Gomenduk.--A common stone, resembling in its properties the
Chanderkanth.
789 Gooma.--A medicine of India; sweet, pungent, hot, dry, heavy,
aperient; used in disorders of wind, bile, mucus; in jaundice and in
swellings, and is vermifuge. All this the author of the Dhara Shekoi
has related. The common Gooma is different.
790 Goww.--A tree common in Cashmere, of a hot quality; used in
seminal weakness, inflammatory disorders of the nose, effects of
poison, disorders of mucus, and Juzam. It is vermifuge; its fruit
increases phlegm, and its gum is heavy, aphrodisiac; beneficial in
disorders of wind.
791 Kobhee.--"Hieracum, Bruce MS." This is of three kinds, one of
which is used as food for the parroquet. Its leaf is like that of the
radish when in an imperfect state. It is cool, light, and astringent;
used in disorders of mucus, bile, and blood; in seminal weakness,
cough, boils, eruptions, and fever, and produces wind.
792 Gowrbaghan.--Cool; useful in general heat and disorders of blood.
793 Godoon.--A common grain used by villagers; tonic.
794 Gowruk.--A kind of Lawa.
795 Koonj.--A name for Kulungh. Its meat cures disorders of wind
and mucus.
796 Koonch.--A medicine of Hindostan. If its seed-vessel be applied
to the skin, it produces great itching; if it is washed in cow-dung
and water, this effect will be removed. Its seed is like the bean,
smooth, and of a purple color; it is hard, and if the end is cut off,
and it be applied to the part stung by a scorpion, it will remove
the pain, and cannot be removed till the poison is extracted; and
when this is accomplished, it falls off itself, and will be found
from its power of suction to have become much larger. It is sweet,
increases semen, lengthens aphrodisia, and is useful in diffusion of
bile in the blood. It is beneficial in old ulcers, and is a favorite
ingredient in aphrodisiac formulÊ.
Maadentezerrubad.
Kooch is a medicine of India; its seed cold and hot in equilibrium;
drying, aphrodisiac; strengthens the loins, useful in piles and cough,
and increases the consistence of semen. If half a direm of the leaves
be bruised with seven of the long fruit of the peepul in water, and
given to drink, it will be found powerfully vermifuge. It also clears
the intestines of all noxious matter. If 10 direms be bruised in 50
direms of water, and drank for seven days, it will cure Lues Venerea.
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