942 Motha موتها.—“Cyperus rotundus. Cyperus pertenuis, Roxb.” A name for Saad; bitter, astringent, and cool; inducing costiveness; assisting digestion; used in disorders of blood, mucus, bile, and fever; removes thirst, and is vermifuge.
943 Moom موم.—Soft and greasy, cures pain of bruises; and boils; assists the growth of granulations in wounds, and the junction of fractured bones; useful in affections of wind, blood, and Juzam. A. Shuma.
944 Mookul. موكل.—Restrains laxities of the bowels, is heavy and tonic; useful in disorders of bile and wind, creates appetite, and is very aphrodisiac.
945 Moolie مولى or Moolug.—Hot and light, creates appetite, clears the voice, benefits affections of the throat, the olfactory nerves, and the three secretions; dried, it is light and very beneficial in piles, swelling, stone and gravel. Salt extracted from the radish in the usual way, by being dried and burned, is diuretic; useful in suppressions of urine, and promotes digestion.
946 Motie موتى.—Its properties nearly resembling those of Chunder Kanth, q. v.
947 Moonga مونگا.—A name for Mirjhan; bitter and sweet; useful in disorders of bile, heat, wind, and mucus; increases semen and is cardiac.
948 Mowlserie مولسرى.—Mimusops Elengi. Bukool, H. Sweet, astringent, and cool; causes intoxication, raises the spirits and is an antidote to poisons. Its flowers have a sweet smell; the fruit is cool, sweet, and astringent; improves the color of the skin, and imparts a pleasant taste to the mouth. I have found the fruit to be cardiac and stomachic; the root is beneficial in seminal weakness, in strengthening the loins, and increasing the consistence of semen. Its name is also Bowlserie.
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Bowlserie is cool and dry; its bark and root useful in thickening semen, and remedying too great seminal irritability: if its bark is boiled in milk, and as a gargle, it will remove tooth-ache. The flowers are somewhat hot, cardiac, and stomachic; its distilled water is intoxicating, and useful in disorders of bile, thirst, and delirium.
949 Mooslee موسلى or Mooslicund.—Sweet and cool; removes bile and heat; increases a proper secretion of mucus, and if eaten with sweet oil, it will relieve discharges from the nose from cold. Used with rock salt, it will increase appetite; with water it will remove pains in the bowels. It is of several kinds: black and white. The former resembles the Shakakool, but the bark of the Shakakool is white, whereas this is black; the white kind is thin, and resembles Mahi roobyan, called also Mooslie Dukanee. Another kind is also white, and thinner than the black kind, yet thicker than the Dukanee. All three kinds are used in aphrodisiac formulæ; some have called it hot, and useful in piles and disorders of wind. If half a direm be taken with Zeera, it will be found beneficial in Jaundice; and if taken with equal parts of good ginger, it will cure indigestion. If eaten with the leaves of Punskisht in equal parts, it will remedy offensive perspiration, and with Streephill, it will remove seminal weakness; with Peepul, it will cure Hydrophobia, and with Anula it cures intermittents.