1 hot season, when they are sold in the bazaar; the natives are
2 fond of them, and also eat them salted. Their juice mixed with
3 equal parts of proof spirit, constitutes —
4 Grew. As. fructus tinctura (I.) Cough. Itching and
5 pricking, with a sensation of internal burning.
6 Syphilitic pain, with swelling of the joints.
7 Grislea tomentosa. Lythrum fruticosum — the petals are
8 officinal at Lahore, where they are used as a dye, as well as a
9 medicine.
10 Grislea tom. (I.) blind piles.
11 Guataci Lignum & resina — are not officinal at Lahore. The
12 latter I procured from Agra. See Rob antisyphiliticum.
13 Guaj. res. (II.)
14 Guia Khuta i — A Bokharian Hakim presented me with
15 a hard, pitch-like plaster (on a small piece of red linen), which he
16 pretended had been prepared in China, and which was capable
17 of removing every kind of pain, simply by application. One
18 and the same plaster serves for several cases. The form is
19 square, three or four inches in diameter ; each of them bears a
20 Chinese seal. According to the assertion of the Hakim, its
21 constituent parts are sweet oil and litharge ; the latter, as an
22 impalpable powder, is added to the former, when they are boiled
23 and stirred incessantly, without the addition of any liquid (as
24 additional liquid would form the well-known plaster of litharge,
25 called diachilori) until the mass becomes burned black, and
26 as thick as a plaster; it must be spread while warm on
27 the small pieces of linen, and so preserved. The Bokharian
28 doctor pretended that every pain, without exception, must yield
29 to its application. It should be applied, as near as possible
30 to the affected part ; for instance, in headache, it ought to be
31 applied on both temples, or, on the forehead; in earache, behind
32 the ears ; in carious toothache, a small piece should be put into
33 the hollow of the tooth. It acts as a rubefacient, without
34 blistering.
35 Guilandina Bonduccella. Ccesalpinia Bonduccella — its
36 nuts are used by the native doctors, as well as by the English