"Seriss is among the Indian physicians, hot and dry, and in the opinion of some cool and dry; it cures swellings and wind. If the bark of the stem, the bark of the root, with the flowers and seeds of each, 3 mashas, be bruised, sifted, and mixed with cow's urine, and taken thrice a day, it will cure the bite of a snake, and for one whole year no reptile will injure you. The bark of an aged tree is the best. When the sun shall be in the division Joura, if daily for three days, 6 mashas of the bark be taken in congee, it will render the person invulnerable to the bite of any noxious reptile for a year. If the oil be extracted by heat from the seeds, and applied to the white spots of leprosy, it will cure them." 565 Sirool.--Bitter, hot, and light; cures affections of the throat, ear, eye, and disorders of wind. 566 Sirsom or Seerkup. P. Sirshuph.--In India this is used to produce a very common oil; it is hot, and increases disorders of the mouth, and decreases mucus and semen; expels wind; is vermifuge, and if much be taken it will injure the eyesight; if a woman uses it during the lochial discharge, it will increase her strength and improve her complexion. One kind of this is white, and is called Sedarth, q. v. "Sinapis Dichotoma, (Roxb. MS.) Sp. ch. dichotomous, siliques cylindric, smooth, spreading, bark straight and tapering, leaves stem-clasping; the lower somewhat lyred, superior ovate, lanceolate, entire, all are smooth, as are also stem and branches." Roxb. 567 Soorunkitki.--A kind of Ketki, like the Sinobir. It has twelve leaves or more in the flower, its scent is sweet and soft. The plant flowers only once in 6 or 7 years; both kinds are sweet, cool, bitter, pungent, and light, and cure disorders of mucus. The juice of the Keora is also used for the same purpose, and mixed with it, is cardiac. The Ketki is a variety of Keora. 568 Sirunmaki.--It is astringent, pungent, light, aphrodisiac and cardiac; cures Juzam, swellings of the body, piles, seminal weakness, pains in the urinary bladder, marasmus, disorders of the blood, and dropsy; is an antidote to poisons; cures hectic fever; clears the throat, and is an ingredient in all favorite formulÊ. 569 Seroopjeea.--A kind of Jeeaphup. 570 Seriepurnie.--A kind of Arnee, also called Gumbar. 571 Seroopbudder.--A name also of Gumbar. 572 Surwalla.--The name of a common shrub. 573 Sussa.--A name for the hare. The meat is sweet, cool, and light; induces costiveness, increases appetite, cures difficulty of breathing and sunpat, removes dysentery, and is both a medicine and article of diet. 574 Suffrie Amer.--The Guava, "Psidium pyriferum." Vide Anervade. 575 Segund Philla.--A kind of date. 576 Soogunass.--A name for Arloo.