1 321
2 O val. acid. (in.)
3 ♦Oxalts corniculata — vegetates in Hindostan as well as in
4 Cashmere, and is used like the European sorrel. An infusion
5 of the small leaves is given as a cooling medicine in fevers.
6 Occal. corn, folia (I.) Syphilis.
7 Oxymel— is much used among the natives of Hindostan ;
8 both as a cooling draught and refreshing beverage in the hot
9 season, in fever, thirst, etc. Occasionally, they add to the
10 boiling vinegar and honey, a few leaves of mint, thereby im-
11 proving both the flavor and effect. See Vol. I. p. 165.
12 Oxyrta elatior— grows in Cashmere, and is used as an
13 ingredient of the sauce, called chutnee.
14 Pabud. Pabood — in the Punjab and Cashmere, there are
15 different kinds of white earths, which are used by the Hindoos,
16 under the name of Pabood , in their religious ceremonies. The
17 genuine, which I got at Lahore, was carbonate of magnesia
18 combined with a very small quantity of oxyde of iron. {See
19 Magnesia.) I received an inferior kind in Cashmere, which was
20 a product of the hills ; namely, from Amernat ; this earth was
21 carbonate of lime and magnesia, with very little oxyde of iron.
22 ♦Papaver album. Papaver somniferum — is cultivated in
23 the Punjab, and much used.
24 Papav. capita et semina (I.)
25 ♦Papaver Rhceas — The Corn-poppy vegetates at Lahore as in
26 Europe, wild — both in gardens and fields ; it is but very little
27 used, probably, because its properties are unknown.
28 Papav. rh. fores (I.)
29 Papaver spinosum, v. Argemone Me.vicana.
30 Pareira brava {Cissampelos) — the root of this American
31 plant was not known to the native doctors at Lahore. I received
32 some from Agra. This medicine was formerly said to be an
33 antisyphilitic; lately, it has been recommended against dropsy;
34 being a tonic and diuretic, which diminishes the inflammation,
35 irritability, and mucous secretion from the bladder.
36 Pareir. brav. radix (I.) Cholera-morbus. Pleuritic pain.
37 Pastinaca Opopanax, v. Opopanaoo .