When the Pookhnichittur shall happen on a Sunday, take the root, leaves, flowers, and branches, taking care that your shadow does not reach them; leave them five nights in the dew, and then dry them in the shade. Four mashas ate with sugar and honey daily, will be found aphrodisiac. If it be washed for 21 days in the juice of the plantain tree, then bruised and washed in the juice of the Moondie, sugar taken and boiled in the juice of the plantain tree, and a little of the Roodwunti added to it, then adding cloves and cardamoms one tolah each, musk and camphor each 1/2 tolah, and the whole made up into balls of a tolah each, and one eaten daily in boiled milk, it will be found aphrodisiac. If it is taken simply, mixed with sugar, it will have an aphrodisiac property. Another account. Of the Roodwunti there are four kinds, black, white, red, and yellow, male and female; the female is distinguished by some of its leaves dropping water. It grows in a moist or watery soil, near Gwallior; it is green, and its leaves and branches resemble gram. The leaves of the male kind are said to transmute metals, and are considered very valuable on that account. If one part of this, half a part of Tirphilla, one-fourth part of Tircoota, and the bulk of the whole of sugar be bruised and sifted, and as much ate with cow's milk, as may be held in the palm of the hand, it will cure all disorders to which the human frame is subject, and transmute old age into youth. Maadentezerrubad. If the leaves are rubbed on silver, and that put into the fire, it will become yellow; if the leaves are thrown into melted tin, it will assume the appearance of gold. If mercury be put into the juice of its leaves and well stirred about, then boiled in milk or vinegar, it will become yellow. If the green leaves be dried, pounded, and taken to the quantity of 9 masha for 14 days, the hair will never become white. If one direm of this and 14 direms of honey, with 10 direms of cow's ghee, be well stirred up together and taken every morning, the body will become strengthened, and the hair remain black. Two direms ate with sugar, will increase appetite, and cure seminal weakness and pains in the bowels. If its leaves are used as a cephalic, it will remove the effects of poisons. Some call it Roowunti; it is hot and dry. 495' Roodraz.--Commonly used in India for making beads which are much esteemed. It is bitter, pungent, hot, and vermifuge; rectifies an overflow of blood or a suffusion of bile in the blood; cures mucous affections and head-aches. Is useful in disorders of children, and is an antidote to poisons. 496 Ruswut.--"An extract from the root of the Amomum Anthorhizum, Roxb." Bitter and pungent; hot; beneficial in mucous disorders, affections of the mouth, eyes, boils, and eruptions. In A. Huzzood. "Mixed with equal parts of alum and opium, rubbed up together with a little water, it is perhaps the best application in ophthalmia ever used, applied all round the eye." Trans.