906 Merg.--P. Ahoo. Its flesh is sweeter than of any other animal;
a little acid and saltish; bitter, pungent, and astringent; it is
cool and light, flatulent; creates appetite; useful in disorders of
all the secretions; is tonic, cardiac, beneficial in fever, and is
an excellent medicated food.
907 Murua.--Some say this is hot and light in the 3rd degree, and some
that it is in equilibrio; it loosens mucus from the head, and dispels
wind. If boiled in vinegar, and used as an external application to the
head, it will remove obstructions that produce head-ache. Prepared
in this way, it also removes swellings or eruptions caused by heat
or irritating applications. It is cardiac and stomachic, discusses
collections of bile, removes the effects of any animal poison, Juzam,
and disorders of mucus and wind. Is vermifuge. A. Isoomulphar.
908 Moorhuttee or Mudhserda. Cool, heavy, tonic, and aperient; allays
thirst and nausea, and relieves disorders of bile. A. Isilloosoos;
it is the Baboonie.
909 Merch.--"Piper Nigrum, W. Maricha, San. Poivre, F." Pungent,
penetrating, stimulant, carminative; hot and dry; useful in disorders
of mucus, wind, difficulty of breathing, and internal itchiness;
is vermifuge; expels bile, and assists digestion.
910 Merchai.--A name for Hubboneel; hot, dry, and laxative; removes
viscid bile, also mucus and worms.
911 Mursa.--"Amaranthus oleraceus. A potherb." An esculent,
succulent vegetable, which when boiled with salt and butter is sweet,
high-flavored, and aperient.
912 Mernal.--The stem of the Kawul flower.
913 Murorphillie.--"Helieteres Isora." A medicine of
India. P. Kistburkisht (Sheeraree Pechuc); a long twisted shrub,
having a single flower, of a purple color; its leaves resemble the
scorpion's tail; hot and dry in the 2nd degree; some call it hot
in the 1st and dry in the 2nd degree. It assists digestion, and
clears the skin; removes thickened and viscid mucus, and forms an
ingredient in all children's medicines. As an external application,
it is useful in swellings from cold, in itch or daad, expels wind,
and decreases milk or semen; its corrector is Hubbeh senobir; its
succedaneum thrice its weight of Sibr (aloes). Dose one direm.
914 Missie.--A shrub of India, about a yard high; its branches thin
and its leaves like the Kussowndie: its branches are knotted, and when
slit open, an insect is found in them, which is given to the Boolbul,
when training them to fight. Its flower is very small, of a reddish
yellow, like the Gowzeban; it is also called the Kakjunga, q. v.
915 Musoor.--P. Adiess. A common grain of the pea tribe; cool, light,
and astringent; useful in disorders of mucus, bile, and blood, and
is sweet during digestion.
916 Mustchagundka.--A kind of sugar, useful in eruptions from diffused
bile, seminal weakness, delirium, nausea, and thirst.
917 Mukoond.--Sweet to the taste; bitter in digestion; hot and dry;
light; decreases corpulence; induces costiveness and wind; it is a
kind of grain.
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