215 Punjemool.--Two kinds, called large and small, by way of distinction. The large is composed of Bale, Aginmunth, Padill, K·shmerie Sheonak. Its taste is bitter and astringent; it is light, hot, and stomachic; dissolves animal fat, cures disorders of phlegm, wind, and difficulty of breathing. The small is composed of Gookhroo, Salpurbi, Bureshtpurbi, Bereta, Rutai. Its taste is sweet, and its properties are in equilibrium. It strengthens the system in general, and is useful in disorders of bile and wind. 216 Bindaal.--A creeping plant, which is found on trees; it resembles the Kusseroo, and its seed is dark-colored, like those of the Till. Its capsule is somewhat larger than that of the Kusseroo, covered with a black rind, which also covers a second. It is very beneficial in the Zaerbad of horses; is pungent, and creates appetite, and is useful in wind and mucus. It is common to hills, plains, and ditches. In the Maadentezerrabad it is said to be a cure for hydrophobia, in the quantity of two fruits mixed with black pepper. It is said to be an Indian fruit like the black Hurrhe, light, bitter and elastic: its rind is hard; and the best kind of it is yellow. It is hot and dry in the 3rd degree. If pounded and sifted, and after a motion introduced into the rectum, it will in a few days cause the separation of hemorrhoids and their discharge. A fumigation of these seeds is also very beneficial in external piles. If they are bruised and mixed with cow's ghee, and introduced into the nose, they will cure irritability of temper and epilepsy, and remove all complaints arising from wind. If two or three seeds be moistened with water for a night, and in the morning two or three drops be introduced into the nose, it will produce the discharge of that yellow fluid from the brain which causes the disease named Pirbaal, or loss of sensation in the olfactory nerves. 217 Bindeakurkotheki.--A name for Banjekakora, so called from its barrenness; pungent, useful in poisons and cough. 218 Puns.--A name for Kutel. 219 Punnus.--An appellation for Lackutch. 220 Punealae.--A plant, "Flacourtia Catafracta;" the fruit of which resembles the Zerdaloo, and is itself like to the Neemb tree; the leaves are like those of the ratan; unripe, it is green, but when ripe red. 221 Poiey.--"Basella Alba et Rubra." A culinary vegetable which grows slow and creeping; its fruit is black; cool and moist; it is heavy and rough in the throat, thickens the voice, is soporific; promotes the secretion of semen and mucus, and cures eruptions from bilious disorder.