734 Kirkund.--The small Baer, called also Nazookbadun; it is moist and heavy; sweet, and cures disorders of bile and wind. It is also called Jhirberrie. There is a smaller kind, that is more sweet, and grows in gardens. 735 Kora.--A name for the Inderjow tree; it is very bitter and astringent; cool and dry; creates appetite; cures bilious disorders and foulness of blood, also disorders of mucus; and removes obstructions in the pylorus from viscid mucus; useful in indigestion and Juzam; restrains hemorrhage from piles and diarrhoea. 736 Kurni.--"Mimusops Kauki." A fruit of the hills; pungently bitter and hot; cures disorders of bile and mucus, flatulence, and is vermifuge. 737 Kurrukphill.--A name for Bahira. 738 Krishn Moolie.--A black kind called Kalesur; it derives its name from being a root of the color of Krishna. 739 Krishn Saarba.--A black kind of Saarba. 740 Kussowndie or Kussownda. The name of a tree of India; its branches commence from near the root and surround the stem, growing out from all sides of it. It grows about the thickness of a bambu, and in height that of a man. The leaves if rubbed have a disagreeable smell. Its seed-vessel is about a yard long, or even longer; it encloses small round seeds like Sumach, a little crooked. Its leaves are thick like Kumerach, but the latter are broad, whereas this is longer. The large kind is called Kussownda, the smaller Kussowndie; the leaves of both are nearly alike. It is hot, moist, and some say equal. It relieves the brain, and if the seed is washed and eaten, it will cure the effects of the scorpion's poison; and if the seed and leaves be ground in a mill, made into bread with flour, and eaten with sweet oil, it will cure night blindness; should any one have swallowed tiger's hair, pills made of the leaves, flower, and seed swallowed and vomiting produced, the hair will be discharged. Maadentezerrubad. Kussowndie is a medicine of India, hot and dry; cures wind and loosens phlegm; useful in cough and disorders of the blood. 1 1/2 direms of its root with half direm of peepul eaten, will cure the poison of snakes or scorpions, or if rubbed on the bitten or stung part will give relief. It clears the voice, and if five direms of its leaves with one direm of peepul be bruised in water, and taken for seven days, during which period food without salt is eaten, it will cure Lues Venerea. 741 Kusseroo or Kusseruk. "Cyperus Tuberosus." The root of a grass, black and full of hair, like bristles, found in the cold season. It is cool, sweet, heavy; used in disorders of bile, blood, and general heat; it induces costiveness, increases semen, phlegm, and wind, and allays thirst. If eaten with its outer rind, or only chewed, and the juice swallowed, it will be less heavy and hurtful; some bruise it and drink sherbet thus made with sugar, and it is thus more cooling and useful in cases of gonorrhoea, and the effects of hot winds, but in this case the outer rind must be removed.