"Somoderphill is hot and dry; if introduced into the nose with goat's milk or urine, it will cure head-ache, hemicrania, suppressed mucus, &c. If mixed with goat's urine and applied to the eyes, it will cure night blindness, and removes opacities in the cornea. Mixed with human urine, it is both ate and applied to the nose in bites of snakes, and with sheep's urine or buffaloe's dung is applied to the pubis in the cure of diabetes; mixed with turmeric, it is an useful application to the spots of white leprosy; with sugar, ate for the cure of seminal weakness; with aniseed, in pains of the bowels; with cow's urine, in hiccup; with dhaie, as an astringent; with ginger, in rheumatism; with human urine, in black jaundice; with cow's urine, in mesenteric obstructions of children; and for those who are dull of hearing, mixed with Bhangra or honey, as an application to the inside of the ear. In restrained or obstructed lochia, or retention of the placenta, with asafoetida; and with cloves and sugar, in intermittent fever." 580 Somooder Phane.--Sponge. 581 Somooder Lone.--Murias SodÊ. The sea salt; it is sweet and bitter, hot and cool, in equal degrees; tonic, anthelmintic, purgative; promotes appetite and digestion, cures disorders of wind, and corrects irregularities of bile and mucus. 582 Somoodersake.--Convolvulus Argenteus, also Ruttunmala. Maadentezerrubad. "A seed like the mustard; black and aperient, cool and moist, in the 1st degree; is aphrodisiac; strengthens the stomach, removes heat of urine, gonorrhoea, thinness of semen, the secretion of which it thickens and increases. It is astringent, and produces flatulence. Its corrector is sugar; its succed. Sireyara: dose six mashas."