1024 Harsinghar.—“Nyctanthes Arbor Tristis;” also called Hursinghar. It grows to about a man’s height, and when at the very highest, is about 12 feet, though some have seen it even higher. Its leaves are pointed, thick, and hard; its flowers small and white; their stem red. Its leaves rubbed on ring-worm cure the affection: first scaling the part, then healing. It is cool and light; useful in disorders of wind, mucus, and bile. It is aphrodisiac, and re-unites broken bones.

1025 Haloon.—“The seed of the Cress, or Lepidium Sativum.” The seed of the Agur; it is smaller than the seed of the Tookbalingha, but thicker, and of a red color; it is aphrodisiac and tonic; removes hiccup, wind, mucus, and disorders of the blood. It is hot and dry. A. Hurf.

1026 Hudhjora.—The flower of the Hursinghar; it produces the re-union of fractured bones, from which property it derives its name. “Cissus quadrangularis.”

1027 Hoorhoora.—A small plant, with many flowers, of a white color, and very small: one kind of it is called Burumseerjela. The first kind is cool, heavy, and diuretic; useful in disorders of mucus and wind. The second is hot and light; useful in seminal weakness and fever; and is lithontriptic, and removes difficulty of voiding urine.

1028 Hurunkherie or Hurunkhoorie. A small plant of India; its leaves resembling a deer’s hoof, which has given it this title. It is usually found in wheat fields; it is hot, and aperient; useful in scabies, Juzam, and loss of sensation. If one direm fresh be eaten with 10 grains of black-pepper, bruised, daily, it will restore lost sensation.

1029 Hurtaal.—“The yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment.” Pungent and astringent; hot and dry; useful in disorders from poison, scabies, Juzam, aphthÆ, disorders of the blood, mucus and bile, fever, and possession with evil spirits. It is a common application in scabies, and is called Zernikh Zerd. It is of five kinds, yellow, red, green, white, and black. The yellow is called Hurtaal, and the white kind is used by alchymists in the transmutation of metals; it is in the opinion of every one hot and dry in the 3rd or 4th degree; its corrector is milk and cow’s ghee; its dose four ratties, after it is killed or prepared, and is thus much esteemed as a medicine in disorders from cold, such as paralysis, epilepsy, affections of the joints, Juzam, and white leprosy. It is aphrodisiac, and increases appetite and digestion.

It is thus prepared for use in Leprosy.

Take one tolah of yellow arsenic, wash it seven times in milk, then grind it for 24 hours, adding as it dries, a little milk, then let it dry a little, and make it up into small pills. Then take half seer of the Bhurr Tree (the bark), pound it, and put it in a vessel, and among the powder put the pills with a little Chunam (lime), above and below them; after this, shut the vessel so well up that no smoke can escape, put it on the fire, and keep it in a strong heat for six hours; then opening the vessel, pour in over the pills a little ghee (butter), to cool them. The dose will be one soorkh daily, for seven days, abstaining from any thing salt.

Another method.

Take half a tolah of Hurtaal Tubki, bruise it, and grind it with milk or the juice of the castor; form it into pills as above. Then take of Dharafilfil half a tolah, bruise, and use it in lieu of the chunam above alluded to; form the pile of 15 pieces of cow-dung in a hole dug in the ground, on these lay the pills, supported and covered with the Dharafilfil; over them place an equal number of pieces of cow-dung, and set fire to the whole. When it is cold, take out the pills, and preserve them for use. Dose half Soorkh.

Another method.

Take of the Hurtaal half a direm, bruise and grind it with the juice of the Kobee, for six hours, then form it into pills, place them in an earthern vessel well luted, then surround it with 10 pounds of dried cow-dung, set it on fire, and when cool, remove them. The dose one grain or barley corn. Salt prohibited. Given in Paan.

Another method.

Take of Hurtaal half a direm, tie it up in a cloth, and let it remain for seven days in cow’s urine, again for the like period in lime juice, and an equal number of days in milk of Mudar. The two first liquids are during the seven days to be twice changed, the last changed daily; then take out the Hurtaal, and grind it with milk of Mudar for six hours, form them into pills, and roast them as recommended in the two foregoing methods. The dose the same.

Another method.

Take of Hurtaal one direm, the kernel of the Kurinjua one direm, Alum one direm; first bruise the Kurinjua and strew the half of it over an earthern vessel, with equal parts of ShibyemÁnie; then put over it the Hurtaal, and above that the alum; above all these, put the remainder of the Kurinjua; secure the whole as in the last method, and roast with 14 pounds of the dried cow-dung.

1030 Hyrbee.—A root of a yellow color; hot, dry, and aperient; useful in disorders of bile, mucus, and viscidities of the secretions; its dose is from one dang. to half a direm.

1031 Harun.—A name for Myrg.

1032 Hurr.—“Terminalia Chebula, W. The unripe fruit Zengi Hur, H. Myrobalans, Terminalia Citrina.” A name for HulÉlÁ; its properties particularly described in Yunani works: astringent, sweet, laxative. Dose one of the fruits.

1033 Hurbarheorhi.—“Averrhoa acida, Linn. Cicca disticha, Gmel. Phyllanthus Cheramela, Roxb.”

Or HÚrfÚrhÉorhi; a common plant; the acid fruit of which is used for preserves.

1034 Husthkool.—A kind of Baer, of a middling size.

1035 Husthal.—A kind of Pendhaloo.

1036 Husthuk.—A name for Arnd.

1037 Husthchinkhar.—A name for Kharkhusuk.

1038 Huldee called also Huld; it is pungent and bitter, hot and dry; useful in disorders of mucus, bile, blood, acne, seminal weakness, swellings, marasmus, and boils. It may be applied in small quantities externally, bruised, for the cure of bruises. P. Zerdchooba. A kind of this is called An’bÈhuldie, “Curcuma longa.”

1039 Huldia.—The name of a yellow poison; vide Hurtaal.

1040 Hoolhool.—“Cleome viscosa.” A plant, about a yard high, more or less; its leaves are small and thin towards the branches; its seed-vessel is very thin, and contains numerous small black seeds. It is round, and bent in the centre; it is used as a culinary vegetable. It is hot and pungent; useful in cholic, dropsy, ulcers, and ear-aches; swellings, Juzam, and white leprosy. Its leaves, introduced into the ear, very useful in ear-ache. It is also beneficial in the piles; the parts being washed with a decoction of its leaves. In this complaint, the leaves are dressed and eaten with rice; five direms of seed ate with twice its weight of sugar before meals, and the meal to consist of Kitcheree, with plenty of ghee, (butter,) used for 40 days, will effectually remove piles.

1041 Huldoo.—The name of a tree; the wood of which is used in buildings; its properties mentioned under the head Darhuld.

1042 Hingote.—A tree; hot in its properties; useful in Juzam, boils, and eruptions; is an antidote to poisons, and to possession by evil spirits; beneficial in white leprosy and worms in the stomach. Its fruit is the size of the large Hurrhoe, and even larger, though when dried it remains about that size. The tree is about the size of a small Neeb tree.

1043 Hunspeedie.—A small shrub, growing close to the ground; its branches thin; its leaves small like the Doodie; it is cool and heavy; useful in disorders of blood, poisons, boils, eruptions, acne, general heat, and possession by evil spirits. It induces costiveness, and is used to counteract the effects of poison of the Tarantula.

1044 Hingpootrie.—It is of two kinds, both pungent and saltish; hot and cardiac; assist digestion; beneficial in pains at the heart, and of the urinary bladder; induces costiveness; remedies piles, disorders of mucus, and Badgola.

1045 Huns.—The flesh is hot and moist; heavy and aphrodisiac; clears the voice and complexion; promotes appetite; beneficial in Soorkhbad and disorders of bile. P. Haaz.——Goose.

1046 Hhoobaer.—A seed about the size and color of the Phalsa, sometimes larger; it is said, that when young, it is red, and when ripe it becomes black. It is a kind of hill Serroe; its leaves like the Jhow. In its taste, it is pungent and bitter, astringent and hot, heavy, and beneficial in disorders of wind, bile, dropsy, and piles; is lithontriptic and vermifuge, and in the quantity of three direms, it expedites the expulsion of the dead foetus e utero. It will cure suppression of the menses, but if ate during pregnancy, will produce abortion. A. Abhul.

1047 Heeng.—Pungent and saltish, also hot; promotes appetite and digestion; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, internal itchiness, Badgola, flatulence, and pains in the bowels; is vermifuge; increases bile, and is aphrodisiac. It increases the power of all tonics and aphrodisiac prescriptions, but the particulars I have mentioned in my other works.

1048 Heeraclokhi. A. Dummul Echwder.

1049 Heerakussees.—A kind of Chund Kussees.

1050 Heera.—The name for Almass.

1051 Haimowtie.—A name for Hurrh.

1052 Habooka.—A denomination for Hhoobaer.

1053 Hingool.—A name for Shungirf.