987 Neyrmellie.--"Strychnos Potatorum, W. Cataca, San." It is cool and dry, some say it is in equilibrium. If bruised and mixed with foul water, it will clear, and purify it. If bruised in water, and applied to the umbilicus, it will relieve the griping pain of dysentery. If bruised, and applied to the eyes, it will strengthen eye-sight; also if applied to the bite of a snake, it will remove the effects of the poison. If eight grains of it be mixed with a little water and sugar, and drank, it will be found beneficial in gonorrhoea. I have seen this in my uncle's receipt book, but the dose was not there specified. If four grains of this be bruised in water, and mixed with dhaie, and left in a covered China vessel for a night, and taken in the morning, it will relieve suppression of urine, gonorrhoea, chordee, and bloody urine; but it must be used for a week. 988 Niswut or Mahaseyama, or Ritchita. It is a little bitter and sweet; also bitter during digestion. It is hot and dry; laxative; relieves wind; useful in fever, disorders of bile, mucus, dropsy, and swellings. The black kind is a poison and very hurtful; it is a powerful drastic purgative; produces insensibility, heat, giddiness, and injures the voice. 989 Nuk Is of two kinds, both sweet to the taste; hot and light; removes possession by evil spirits; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, and blood; is an antidote to poisons; cardiac, and clears the complexion, called Uzfarooteeb. 990 Nukchecknie.--A name for Koondush. It is a low shrub, does not rise from the ground; its leaves like the Tirrateruk; its flower like the Neemb. It produces eruptions in the mouth, beneficial in disorders of wind and phlegm, and is vermifuge. It is called Chicknie. Maadentezerrubad. Nukchikenie is a medicine of India, hot and dry; expels wind; beneficial in mucus, paralysis, and paralytic complaints, loss of memory, pains in the joints, and is aphrodisiac. If one seer of this with quarter seer of sweet oil, and half the weight of Mulkungnie, be put into an earthen vessel, and its oil extracted in the manner described under the head Puttaljuntur, and given in the quantity of four soorkhs in Paan, it will be useful in all the above-mentioned complaints, and in all mucous disorders. It will be advisable to use this medicine only in the cold weather, as it is, in itself, very hot and powerful. 991 Nullwa.--Cool; strengthens the eye-sight; useful in bilious disorders, affections of the blood, Juzam, difficulty of voiding urine, general heat, mucus, and acne. 992 Null or Nullie; grows in watery and moist places; it is cool, and useful in disorders of the eyes, in eruptions of the mouth or apthÊ; clears the blood; clears and dries the vagina, and is diuretic. Some have called it heating.