577 Sillajeet, also Silladeet, Styrax or Storax; a balsam, pungent, bitter, and stimulating, more pungent in digestion; hot, cures seminal weakness, piles from cold, Juzam, dropsy, marasmus, difficulty of breathing, tabes, idiotism, swellings of the body, disorders of mucus and blood. Is vermifuge, lithontriptic, and otherwise generally useful. It in one of the most powerful remedies; is stronger than any other ingredient in whatever formulÊ it may form a part, and it increases the effects of all others; it is the favorite medicine of all Indian physicians. Sut Sillajeet is the strongest, for this means Sillajeet in a refined state. I have found it excellent in gonorrhoea, and for thickening the seminal fluid; also for strengthening the kidnies and urinary bladder. The mode of preparing it, is as follows: The Sillajeet is dissolved in water and placed in the sun in a new earthen vessel till it becomes thick, and its color assumes a reddish or yellowish hue; then it must be taken from the surface as much as is clean, and preserved in another new vessel; this too is placed in the sun, well protected from dust, till it becomes dry. This is the Sut Sillajeet, and what remains in the first vessel is again purified in the same manner for three different times, and each time the pure drug is dried as above. It is easily purified by fire, and more quickly; but this is much to be preferred. It is brought from the hills ready prepared. Maadentezerrubad. "Sillajeet is the urine of the hill wild goat, which when the animal is rutting, is discharged on the stones and evaporated by the sun's heat. It is found in small quantities, of a black color. It is hot in the 3rd, and dry in the 2nd degree. In the opinion of Indian physicians, it is useful in all kinds of seminal weakness, in swellings, in Juzam, epilepsy, diabetes, stone in the bladder, and in gravel. The Sillajeet is often mixed with lime, but the adulteration is discovered by the change of color. Some have said that it is the urine of the wild ass, found as above. The purified kind is the best. In Juzam, if ate for 40 days, it is a cure, and even in the last stages of the disease it is beneficial. It loosens wind and phlegm." 578 Sillaruss.--Hot and moist; increases eyesight and semen, and cures Juzam and itch. A. Myasayela. 579 Somooderphill.--A medicine of India, more black in color than the Hurr, of a square shape, and its corners of a red color; these, however, also become black from age; mixed with human milk and used as a cephalic, it will cause a discharge of all phlegm from the head. If mixed with the juice of the Gooma, it will cure hemicrania. The bark of the root is very efficacious in swellings of the hands and feet; and ate with salt and anise seed in warm water, it will be found excellent in pains of the bowels. Some have named this Hubbooneel, but how far this is correct I know not. Maadentezerrubad.