540 Sarass.--A species of heron, "Ardea Antigone." A large bird, with a long neck and legs, of a lead color; the male lives always with his mate. Its flesh is cool, moist, and heavy; strengthens the system, decreases urine and fÊces, cures disorders of wind, blood and bile. 541 Saamp.--The Snake. Its meat is moist and heavy, is vermifuge, and kills worms in the rectum; increases knowledge, strengthens the system. If the old skin when shed be bruised and applied to the eyes, it increases the strength of vision; and if burnt, and its ashes rubbed on parts where no hair grows, it will reproduce it. Snakes avoid its smell when burning, and if the whole skin be tied round the thigh of a woman in labor, it will facilitate the process. P. Mar. 542 Saal.--The name of a common tree, the wood of which is generally useful. It is cool and astringent; cures disorders of wind, mucus, poisons, boils, eruptions, and is beneficial in burns. A. Saage. 543 Satoon.--A name for Chitoor. 544 Sip Kullie.--The Lizard. A. Saamaberus, P. ChillpusÊ. It does not frequent those places where saffron is kept. If split open and applied to a part where a thorn or arrow may have entered deep, it will effect its extraction by suction. 545 Soopearee.--"Areca Catechu." Astringent, cool, dry, and heavy; cures disorders of mucus and bile, increases appetite; removes bad taste in the mouth; when fresh it is very heavy and produces flatulence; is diaphoretic; injures appetite and eyesight, and causes a prolonged retention of semen. 546 Subskun.--A name for Baraikund. 547 Sutarie.--The juice of the Soopearee tree; it strengthens the teeth and stomach, contracts the vagina, and cures leucorrhoea; it is intoxicating. 548 Setoopula.--A kind of sugar. 549 Setawur,--also Setawurie or Shetawur, vide S. 550 Sutputtrie.--A name for Roocha, vide R. 551 Sutsar.--A kind of cucumber. 552 Suteepulas.--A kind of Kutchoor. 553 Soocherakhar.--The common Sedjee, (impure carb. of soda.) This name is given to the purer sorts. If 3 mashas be mixed with a cupful of dhaie, it is useful in cholicks. If mixed with lime juice, it is used to write on stone, and the stone placed on a slow fire as long as you can snap your fingers 100 times, and then taken off, when the writing will be found white and permanent. The physician Nouruddee has mentioned this to be the case. 554 Sedarth.--Pungent and bitter, hot and dry; cures disorders of mucus, itch, Juzam, apthÊ; is vermifuge, and promotes appetite, but causes diffusion of the bile in the blood, and its consequent disorders. The green leaves are heavy and cool. In my opinion they are hot, and obstruct the flow of urine, increase indigestion, and disorders of the three secretions. The above is a white kind of Sersom, the name taken from the Sanscrit.