1 similar to valerian. The tincture has been recommended as
2 anodyne, antispasmodic, and nervine; in epilepsy, hysterics,
3 dyspepsia, cardialgia, colic, delirium tremens, etc.
4 Nardost. Jatam. radix (I.) Dryness or inflammation of
5 the mouth, tongue, and throat. Spinal pain. Tho-
6 racic pain. Vomiting.
7 Nasturtium aquaticum, v. Sisymbrium Nasturtium.
8 Natrum bilicum — has lately been recommended in diabetes
9 mellitus.
10 Natrum muriaticum. Chloride of Sodium — at Lahore there
11 are different kinds of salt, indigenous and foreign, used in medi-
12 cine— white and black. The white I used, was the common
13 culinary salt ; large crystals, a product of one of the ranges of
14 mountains in the Punjab. Besides this, I used the salt common
15 in the jail at Lahore, which had a bitterish taste, consisting of
16 lumps, easily to be crushed, in granular crystals. Salt is every-
17 where used as a condiment in dishes ; and, as we are accustomed
18 to it, it has no medicinal effects, in large quantities and com-
19 binations. {See Vol. I. Introduction, p. viii.) A dozen years ago,
20 Brandy and Salt was a well-known remedy for various external
21 and internal complaints; haemorrhoids have been cured by it.
22 Muriatic acid has lately been recommended in Asiatic cholera,
23 chlorosis, dyspepsy, chronic affections of the liver and kidneys,
24 dropsy, rheumatism, etc. A continuous use of it has produced
25 salivation. Sea-salt is now said to cure ague.
26 Natr. mur. (I.)
27 Nelumbrium speciosum — grows at Lahore and in Cashmere.
28 Its flowers, which are abundant on the lakes, are used by the
29 Hindoos in their religious ceremonies called Pooja . Every
30 morning I saw, at Cashmere, vast numbers of these flowers,
31 which had served in the rites of the Pooja , flowing down the
32 river. Its boiled roots are eaten as a pot-herb by the natives ;
33 in Lahore they are called Pc, in Cashmere Nadroo. Nelumbium
34 seeds are also employed as articles of diet amongst the natives of
35 India; I believe they are the same kind of seeds as those from
36 which the ancient Egyptians made a sort of bread.
37 2 m 2