1 is but seldom used by the Hakims, who pretend that the genuine
2 drug i.s rarely to be had.
3 Gyps. Z e r ni k goud en i (I.)
4 Hcmatoxylox Cami'echiamim, V. Campcchianum lignum .
5 Halioacabum, v. Phymlitt llhefckngl,
6 TIaumai.a 11 jit a." Peganum Hor r,ata. Hutu syloeatris.
7 < lor charm rupvicularis —grow s plentiful!, at 1. above. I lie:
8 ruins of4.be old city are covered with this weed am! Asclepias
9 giguutea. The former (called Hoormul) is, at Lahore,
10 looker! upon as the plant devoted to the Pariahs (the inferior
11 cast, the sweepers) yet, though a Sikh or Hindoo, would not
12 touch Hoonnui ; the seeds are in common use among the natives,
13 who therewith fumigate the rooms of the wounded. 'Hienatives
14 ■fanny that a person suffering front any discharge, as hiuhmrrhpids,
15 the monthly courses, &c. is uncltun, and that the exhalation
16 proceeding front such person may be prejudicial to the wound ■
17 therefore, it is customary, on the entrance of 'very stranger to
18 strew a few grains of hoonnui upon ft charcoal fire. The natives
19 (with the exception of Sikhs ami Hindoos) use these seeds iti-
20 temallv against weakness of sight and retention of urine.
21 Ifarmal. foe A herlt (l.) Spinal pain extending down¬
22 wards to the thigh and fee'. Tormina.
23 IIakoontootia— is an officinal root at Lahore, and
24 probably all over the East. The Hakims use it, principally
25 in combination vviiii mameern , &e. as a dry collyrium in chronic
26 ophthalmia. The root is not thicker than a tjuiU, knotty,
27 forked, and of a yellowish color.
28 Haroontootiu (I.) Giddiness with obscurity of
29 vision. Restlessness. Thoracic pain. Colic.
30 11auooxtooti a sPECkKs DtAt.siNr.il, v. Dealsing's
31 Huroontootia.
32 ITedyciuum spicatom— is a native oi the higher regions of
33 the Himalayas, on the road of Cashmere, namely on the Veer
34 Vunjut. The natives use hut the root of this plant, and in
35 Veterinary medicine only. Its frog ran cy, warm and aromatic