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2 sulphate of lime, brought from the hills to Lahore, where it
3 is but seldom used by the Hakims, who pretend that the genuine
4 drug is rarely to be had.
5 Gyps. Zernik goudenti (I.)
6 H^matoxylon Campechianum, v. Campechianum lignum .
7 Halicacabum, v. Phy salts Alkekengi .
8 Harmala Rut a. Peganum Harmala. Ruta sylvestris.
9 Corchorus capsicularis — grows plentifully at Lahore. The
10 ruins of the old city are covered with this weed and Asclepias
11 gigantea. The former (called Hoormul) is, at Lahore,
12 looked upon as the plant devoted to the Pariahs (the inferior
13 cast, the sweepers) yet, though a Sikh or Hindoo, would not
14 touch Hoormul ; the seeds are in common use among the natives,
15 who therewith fumigate the rooms of the wounded. The natives
16 fancy that a person suffering from any discharge, as haemorrhoids,
17 the monthly courses, &c. is unclean , and that the exhalation
18 proceeding from such person may be prejudicial to the wound;
19 therefore, it is customary, on the entrance of every stranger to
20 strew a few grains of hoormul upon a charcoal fire. The natives
21 (with the exception of Sikhs and Hindoos) use these seeds in-
22 ternally against weakness of sight and retention of urine.
23 Harmal.Jlos $ herba (I.) Spinal pain extending down-
24 wards to the thigh and feet. Tormina.
25 H aroontooti a — is an officinal root at Lahore, and
26 probably all over the East. The Hakims use it, principally
27 in combination with mameera , &c. as a dry collyrium in chronic
28 ophthalmia. The root is not thicker than a quill, knotty,
29 forked, and of a yellowish color.
30 H aroontooti a (I.) Giddiness with obscurity of
31 vision. Restlessness. Thoracic pain. Colic.
32 Haroontootia species Deai, singii, v. Dealsing's
33 H aroontootia.
34 Hedychium spicatum — is a native of the higher regions of
35 the Himalayas, on the road of Cashmere, namely on the Peer
36 Punjal. The natives use but the root of this plant, and in
37 veterinary medicine only. Its fragrancy, warm and aromatic