1046 Hhoobaer.--A seed about the size and color of the Phalsa,
sometimes larger; it is said, that when young, it is red, and when
ripe it becomes black. It is a kind of hill Serroe; its leaves like
the Jhow. In its taste, it is pungent and bitter, astringent and hot,
heavy, and beneficial in disorders of wind, bile, dropsy, and piles;
is lithontriptic and vermifuge, and in the quantity of three direms,
it expedites the expulsion of the dead foetus e utero. It will cure
suppression of the menses, but if ate during pregnancy, will produce
abortion. A. Abhul.
1047 Heeng.--Pungent and saltish, also hot; promotes appetite and
digestion; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, internal itchiness,
Badgola, flatulence, and pains in the bowels; is vermifuge; increases
bile, and is aphrodisiac. It increases the power of all tonics and
aphrodisiac prescriptions, but the particulars I have mentioned in
my other works.
1048 Heeraclokhi. A. Dummul Echwder.
1049 Heerakussees.--A kind of Chund Kussees.
1050 Heera.--The name for Almass.
1051 Haimowtie.--A name for Hurrh.
1052 Habooka.--A denomination for Hhoobaer.
1053 Hingool.--A name for Shungirf.
SENSATIONS OF BURNING IN THE HANDS AND FEET.
This is of two kinds, a dry, and a sweating, kind. The method of cure
among the natives is as follows:
Sweating kind.
Take of Chook, Khoot, Lahoria Nemuk, each two parts; Black Till Oil,
12 parts; mix and rub in for 14 days.
Dry kind.
Let a hole be dug in the earth, and fire kindled therein, till the
ground becomes well heated; strew the bottom of the excavation with
Mudar leaves, and sprinkle on them new milk, till the fumes arise. The
feet to be placed in the hole, on the leaves, and a blanket to be
spread over, and round the knees, to prevent the escape of the heated
vapour. In this manner the patient is to sit till the place becomes
cold; and this is to be repeated for seven days, when the cure will
be complete.
In the opinion of the Physicians of Hindostan, the human frame is
divided into seven principal parts. These are chyle, blood, muscles,
fat, bones, brain, marrow, and semen.
THE TASTES ARE SIX: VIZ.
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