The river fish is the best, and most powerful as an aphrodisiac,
and tonic. The tank fish are cool, heavy, moist, and aphrodisiac,
also diuretic. Well fish are aphrodisiac and diuretic, increase mucus,
cause disorders of the bowels and Juzam, and are flatulent. The fish
of jheels, or large pieces of water, have the same properties as
the tank fish; and those of small pools or puddles are sweet, moist,
tonic, and useful, and cure disorders of wind. Salt-water fish produce
bile in a slight degree, and are heavy. All fish induce costiveness
and decrease the strength of the eyes, and the clearer the water,
the more beneficial and more powerful are the properties of the
fish. It will be prudent not to use well fish in cold weather. One
kind of fish is very small, and named Pothee, q. v.
895 Mujeeth.--'Rubia Munjith, Roxb. MS. Sp. ch. pentandrous,
perennial, scandent, branches with four hisped angles, leaves quatern,
long-petioled, cordate, acuminate, 5-7-nerved, hisped.' "Madder: given
in the quantity of one pice weight in milk, several times repeated,
its effects are very powerful; it affects the whole nervous system,
produces profuse sweating, temporary delirium, mental agony and tears,
with an evident determination to the uterine system."--Trans.
A root of a red color, used by the dyers. It is an emmenagogue, and
its taste is sweet, bitter, astringent; hot and heavy; clears the
voice and complexion; useful in disorders from poison, mucus, blood,
swellings, ophthalmia, itchiness of the liver, pains, in the female
parts of generation; Juzam, eruptions, acne, boils, seminal weakness,
and dysentery. Its green leaves are sweet to the taste, moist, and
create appetite, and beneficial in bilious disorders. A. Foo. H. Aal,
q. v.
896 Moojkund.--A small plant; pungent, bitter; useful in mucous
disorders, cough, and itch. It is very common in hilly countries.
897 Mudhraa.--A name for Kakoli, from its sweet taste so called.
898 Muddenphill.--A name for Mynphill.
899 Mudden.--A name for Moom.
900 Mudh.--Honey.
901 Moodukpurnie or Rakanie. Cool; beneficial in cough, wind,
blood, bilious heat, fever, semen, and eye-sight; it is also
called Maagpurnie. It is called Mudukpurnie, from its leaf so nearly
resembling that of the Moong; Muduk being a name for Moong, and purn,
a leaf.
902 Mudhoolka.--A kind of grain; its properties the same as the
Muckund.
903 Mudhkurkuttie.--A kind of rice; sweet, cool, and heavy; increases
blood and causes eruptions in the mouth.
904 Moorhurrie.--Sweet and bitter, heavy and aperient; cures disorders
of bile, blood, mucus, wind, thirst, affections of the heart, itch,
Juzam, and fever.
905 Moora.--A leaf resembling the Mendhi, brought from Lahore;
cool and light; cures possession from evil spirits; is vermifuge,
and useful in disorders of bile, wind, and blood; also in Juzam.
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