999 Nundbyrchun or Nundbyrkha. Hot and light, and in its properties
resembling the peepul; indeed it is reckoned a species of that
tree. It is useful in disorders of mucus, blood, poisons, boils,
and cuticular eruptions.
1000 Nunahuld.--The small turmeric, called also Mameeran.
1001 Newarrie.--A flower in India, like the Chumbeley, but has no
smell. It is of two kinds, one procured in the hot season, the other
in the rains; the second kind is also called Newalie. Both are pungent,
light, and useful in disorders of all the secretions.
1002 Nowsader.--"Muriate of Ammonia. Sal Ammoniac, F. Salmiak, G. Sale
Ammoniaco, I. Sal Ammoniaco, Sp. Also Nowshader"; very pungent salt,
and as a medicine or application, speedily effectual. It is aperient,
beneficial in cholics, dropsy, costiveness, and pains in the bowels.
1003 Nowllee.--The young leaves of the lime tree; they have a sweet
and grateful smell.
1004 Neeturbala.--Cool, dry, and light; produces appetite and
digestion; cures eruptions of diffused bile; bilious and mucous
disorders, general heat, boils, and eruptions. Some say, that this is
the Nalee, but this is a mistake, for Nalee is the name of a different
medicine, though it may be that of both. As the Neeturbala is seldom
met with, a substitute is used in the branches of the Neelophir, dried.
1005 Neela Totha.--P. Tootia Subs. It is of two kinds, both aperient,
and useful in scabies and Juzam, disorders from poison, and mucus;
is vermifuge; reduces corpulency, and is useful in certain diseases
of the eye.
1006 Neenuk.--Its flesh is sweet to the taste; light, tonic, and
aphrodisiac; useful in disorders of the three secretions. It is a
kind of Barasingha.
1007 Newla.--In its properties resembling those of the cat. A. Ibn
Urs. "The mongoose, Ichneumon, Viverra Ichneumon."
1008 Neelkunt.--"Coracias Bengalensis." A bird; its meat is useful
in disorders of mucus, wind, and blood. P. Subsuk.
1009 Neendie.--"Vitex Nigundo, W. Lagondium Litorium, Rump. Bhemnosi,
Rheede. Vitex Trifolia. The leaves heated are discutient, effectual in
dispelling inflammatory swellings of the joints from acute rheumatism,
and of the testicles from suppressed gonorrhoea."
1010 Neela Sindhuk.--A name for Sumhaloo, (Sobaloo?) P. Punjkysht. A
kind of the above; both are bitter to the taste, astringent, pungent,
and light; increase knowledge; strengthen vision; also strengthen the
hair of the head; remove itchiness of the abdomen and swellings; are
vermifuge; useful in Juzam, boils, eruptions, and disorders of mucus;
improve appetite, and relieve cataract. The leaves of the Sumhaloo,
smoked as tobacco, or equal parts of them and tobacco bruised and
applied to the part, will cure hydrocele.
1011 Nypaul.--A kind of Chureyta, called also Nupaul Neeb.
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