Should any one have swallowed poison and become senseless, this oil forced into the throat, if swallowed, will save the patient. This oil will also have the effect of restoring sensation to parts deprived of it, if rubbed externally. In suppression of the menses, 7 or 8 barley-corns in bulk administered, will give relief. Should a tendon be cut through from a wound, filling the division with the powder, will promote adhesion. A tincture of it in spirits, in the strength of 25 nuts to half a pound of spirit, allowed to remain 15 days in the sun, is aphrodisiac, in the quantity of 16 liquid grains every night. I have found this medicine given to the quantity of half a drachm, more or less, mixed up into a bolus with rose-water, very beneficial in excessive vomiting. Once my father and I were proceeding on a journey, it happened, that some of our people had ate in the morning, of the food prepared the night before, which being stale, produced incessant and violent vomiting; their sufferings were great, and the color of their bodies completely changed. My father having no other medicine with him, except this, gave it to them mixed with rose-water, in various proportions, with great success. In unremitting vomiting, it ought to be given twice, when it will assuredly be successful. 126 Babool, vide Keekur. Acacia Arabica, W. 127 Papotun.--A plant, about a yard high; its seed is like that of the nightshade, at first green, and when ripe, red; in appearance like the Goonchee, covered with a very thin capsule. The leaves heated and applied to swellings are discutient, and the root pounded and mixed with water, applied to the carbuncle or introduced on a seton, will effect a cure in a few days. 128 Paethaon.--Called also Culsi or Breshtpirnie. A medicine of India; sweet, hot, light, and aphrodisiac; remedies laxities of the bowels and abrasions of the intestines. It decreases general heat, allays thirst, and is useful in affections of wind, mucus, bile, nausea, and fever. In the Dhinteri, it is said to be pungent, and beneficial in asthma, phlegm, and dropsy. 129 Patole, vide Pulwul. 130 Patera, usually called PatËla, a name of Birdee, a reed, growing in marshy places, used for making mats. It grows about a man's height, sometimes higher, and about the thickness of one's finger. Its ashes are peculiarly drying, and in quality dry and moist; if sprinkled over a sore, they quickly dry it up; if mixed with vinegar, dried, pounded, and applied to a carbuncle, it will cure it. They are also useful in Ukula and Nufsoodum. 131 Patung.--A large tree, a native of the hills; its leaves are like that of the almond, and its flowers yellow. The fruit round, and of a dirty green color when young, becoming red as it ripens, and sweet to the taste.