457 Doodee.--A name for Hubb-ul-neel. A purgative seed, beneficial in affections of bile, mucus, piles, worms in the belly and rectum, in badgola, and is an antidote to poisons. 458 DoÛdputeya.--A name for Chirkakolie, another kind of which is called Kakolie. 459 Doodka.--A name for Doorie; cures superabundance of wind, mucus, phlegm, piles, worms, Badgola, and is an antidote to poisons. 460 Dhamin or Dhunoon.--A prickly tree, astringent and light, and useful in disorders of phlegm, bile, blood, and in cough. 461 Dhunjawasa.--A kind of J·w·ss·; its properties the same. 462 Dhadahwun.--The name of a tree, useful in disorders of phlegm, wind, poisons, Juzam, piles, and Sunpat. Sunpat is a disease consisting of loss of sensation and universal chilliness and numbness. 463 Dhaw.--"Grislea Tomentosa, Roxb. Lythrum Fructicosum, Linn." A prickly shrub, cool and useful in bilious disorders, mucus, piles, marasmus, &c. 464 Dhawa.--A tree, the flowers of which are generally known; it is also called Dhatki, bitter, pungent, astringent, cool, light, and curing laxities of the bowels; useful in disorders of bile and blood, and is an antidote to poison; is vermifuge, beneficial in acne, and is a little intoxicating; it is also recommended in prolapsus ani, menorrhagia, and hÊmorrhoides; it is said to be equal in its properties. 465 Dhatura.--"Datura Metel. W. Datura Stramonium." A plant about a yard high, more or less. It has numerous branches, like the Benghen plant; it grows wild, and is also cultivated; its leaves are like those of the Abassie; its seed vessel like the walnut, or rather larger; it has small prickles on its surface, and is filled with seeds. There are several kinds of it. One has a black flower, and also a blackish seed vessel: another is white; the first is seldom met with, and is the strongest of any; the flower is of the shape of the Toorhee, (a wind instrument, a trumpet.) It is hot, heavy, and promotes appetite, but produces vomiting; useful in disorders of phlegm, poison, itch, worms, and nausea; clears the complexion, cures fevers, Juzam, boils, and eruptions, as also many other disorders. It is a very active poison; its corrector is cotton, leaf for leaf, seed for seed, flower for flower; its nut is to be chosen in preference for medical use. If the root of the black Dhatura be kept in the house, it will be productive of both good luck and a good name; if it be dried in the shade, and taken in conjee to the quantity of 9 mashas, all white hair will fall from the head and black hair grow in its place. If the root be dried and pounded to the quantity of 160 direms, and mixed with 80 direms of cow's ghee, and placing it on the fire in a new vessel, form it into the consistence of sweetmeats, then tying up the mouth of the vessel close, place it for 40 days among paddy, at the expiration of which time, let the person bathe and give alms to the poor; and let him take out the preparation, and eat as much as