883 Maien ماين.—Acid, astringent, cool, and light; contracts the vagina; useful in dysentery, disorders of bile, blood, and mucus; also affections of the throat. A. Kuzmazidge. P. Kurmar.
884 Maachik ماچق.—A name for honey of a reddish color; it is sweet, cool, dry, and light; reduces corpulency, strengthens vision, increases understanding, and beneficial in seminal weakness. The fresh kind is moist and aperient; that which is old is dry, and if heated is hurtful. I mean that which has been fermented, and that produced in hot climates.
885 Majoophill ماجوپهل or Maijphill. A. Affix. “Alleppo Galls, Quercus Cerris, Quercus Robur.” It is hot and astringent; useful in wind; blackens the hair, and contracts the vagina.
886 Maankund مانكند.—A name for Istolekund.
887 Malook مالوک.—A name for Palook.
888 Mahesingie ماهى سنكى.—The author of the Dhara Shekoi has called this the water-scorpion; see Beechoo.
889 Maat ماٹ.—The name of a culinary green, used as food. If the root of this plant be cleared of the bark, and 100 tolahs of this be boiled in 100 tolahs of milk, and as much fine honey, over a gentle fire, taken out and put in a vessel for use, it will be found highly useful in reproducing the secretion of milk in the breast of a woman, and is thus used: The woman is to anoint her body with sweet oil, then bathe in warm water, after which a little of this to be ate, and care taken that no wind obtain admission to the place where she sleeps; this done for 14 days, milk will be produced in great abundance.
890 Maashpurnie ماشپرنى.—Obtains its name from its leaves resembling Maash; it is called also Makonie; it is cool, dry, sweet, and pungent to the taste. Increases semen and mucus; useful in fever, eruptions of the mouth, dryness of the fauces, disorders of blood, and costiveness.
891 Muttur مٹر.—“Pisum Sativum. P. Kusshuba.” Hot, heavy, and aperient; increases wind, bile, and blood; is diuretic, and increases secretion of milk; useful in external swellings and disorders of mucus, weakens eye-sight and decreases semen. One kind is called Betla, and another is very small; both of these are sweet to the taste; in digestion cool, light, and astringent; useful in disorders of wind, mucus, and bile, and it is the best food for cows.
892 Muttreegurba مٹري گربہا.—The eggs of fish. Moist, heavy, and aphrodisiac; tonic; induces corpulency, increases mucus and the bulk of the solids; brings on heaviness of the spirits and indolence, and cures seminal weakness.