1 to be exceedingly acrid, bitter and drastic, and bus been recoin-
2 mended in hepatic affections'and dropsy.
3 Tbiticum SATIVUM—is cultivated, 1 believe, every where in the
4 East as in Europe. Several varieties of wheat are found in Lahurfe
5 and Qashmere. Bread wade from Hour with the bran has been
6 ieenmmemW against habitual constipation. See Vol. I. p. Vd.
7 Tubkb ctBARitiM. Ly coper dim tuber, Linn.—Is not known
8 in the East. There are to be met with at Lahore, hermetically
9 sealed boxes from Europe, containing truffles, with such of u
10 black kind, I made some experiments.
11 Tnberh cibar. conserm (I.) Itching.
12 TouvKTia M Convolvulus— its root is officinal at Lahore.
13 'Hie Hakims administer turbith in diseases of the mucous mem-,
14 brains as also in paralysis, gout and Indian leprosy ; they often
15 use only the inner substance of the root, and T remarked hat
16 turbith i* sold in London, without the inner substance, having
17 the appearance as if perforated,
18 Turpcth- alb. rad, 'pure interior (II.) Headache.
19 Tuxt a— is officinal at Lahore; the Hakims use tutty in
20 ophthalmia;
21 Tutia (II.)
22 Ultbamauink— is used by native painters at Lahore; they,
23 prepare it themselves from the ore (lapis lazuli) brought from
24 Toorkistan, which, however, is rare and dear. This costly pig¬
25 ment. is not used by the Hakims, but lapis lazuli is recommended
26 in their books in diseases of the mucous membrane and melan¬
27 choly, a? in Indian leprosy, psoropbthalinia, falling of the eye¬
28 lashes (ptilose), etc. What 1 administered was an artificial pre¬
29 paration from Paris.
30 Ultramar, art/fie. (IIi.) Ulcers.
31 U.mhellifkra-Jj u t a z k it i— is officinal at Cashmere, and
32 »■ vegetates on those mountains. Probably Neogam ov Endrema f
33 I had several specimens like what is lithographed in f ill in the
34 plate; nevertheless, our botanists have not hazarded its classi¬
35 fication, nor given it a proper name. UmheMifern is a Genus;
36 Bata, or bufee , signifies in Cashmere, plant. Zeri or Zeree is