157 Burrh.--A large tree of Hindoostan, very common, cool and
heavy; astringent, useful in mucous disorders, in bile, boils, and
eruptions. In the Maadentezerrabad it is called Reesha in Persian. If
the milk is applied to swellings or boils, it will effect a cure
by resolution; or if applied to the eye, will remove specks on the
cornea. If a tooth be at all loose, the milk applied to it will cause
it to fall out without pain, but care must be taken that it be not
applied to the sound tooth. If the bark of the tree be put into the
pan in which fish is fried, it will soften the bones. The young shoots
of the hanging roots and the bark, are cool, dry, and astringent; the
milk is hot and powerful; the fruit less so. If the above-mentioned
young shoots be bruised and put into a cloth, and heated over the
fire, it forms an excellent and affectual application to lumbago or
other rheumatic affections. The fruit, ate with milk and sugar, is
mentioned as aphrodisiac, and increasing certain secretions. The young
shoots of the pendent roots and leaves, and the bark are astringent,
and useful in diarrhoea. The leaf-buds are also recommended for the
same complaint, dressed with meat or otherwise.
158 Birnaan or Burna.--A tree of Adjmere; the wood of which is used
for making beads, which from their beauty are sent to different places
as presents. Its medicinal property is hot and aperient, stomachic,
beneficial in disorders of the blood, phlegm, wind, dysuria, and
emaciation; it is vermifuge, and lithontriptic.
159 Purpeeloo.--The Araaq Hindui. Cool, and useful in itch, Juzam,
hemorrhoids, disorders of blood, mucus, and bile.
160 Beridda.--A medicine of Hindoostan; cool, and grateful, increasing
seminal secretion, removing cough, hectic fever, disorders of blood,
and phlegm, and increasing the strength of the solids.
161 Pereshtpurnie.--A name for PÊthaon.
162 Berchakund.--A kind of Pindaloo; another kind is called Roomus,
also Mudwull; a third kind is Sunkal; a fourth Kashtall; a fifth
Hustaloo; a sixth Rucktall, called Ruckutkund. All these roots are
sweet, cool, dry, and flatulent; also aperient. They give tone to the
urinary bladder, remove eruptions (the consequence of suffused bile),
increase semen, phlegm, and wind; they strengthen the solids, are slow
of digestion, and increase the secretion of milk. Pindaloo is somewhat
bitter and hot, heavy, mucilaginous, and diuretic. Mudwall increases
bile, and is bitter; but it is beneficial in mucous disorders.
163 Barumbie or Soonputtie.--Sweet, cool, aperient, light; increases
the powers of perception and memory, clears the voice, cures Juzam,
jaundice, seminal weakness, foulness of the blood, and cough;
is an antidote to poisons, beneficial in swelling of the body,
in bilious affections, and is a common ingredient in all useful
formulÊ. A. Zernub.
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