983 Naaœ نائى.—A common shrub, very hot; useful in disorders of wind and mucus; produces appetite; assists digestion. Its leaves used as a culinary vegetable.
984 Nirbissie نربسى.—A name for Jedwar. “Curcuma Zedoaria. Amomum Zedoaria. Kempferia Rotunda.” Sp. ch. Spikes lateral, bulbs small, with long yellow palmated tubers; leaves broad-lanceolar, sub-sessile on their sheath, sericeous underneath; color uniform green. Banhildie; pungent and cool; useful in disorders of wind, mucus, blood, and every kind of poison. Is tonic; carminative; useful in flatulent cholic, but it increases ulcers.
985 Nerkutchoor نركچور.—See Kutchoor.
986 Nergoondie نرگوندى.—Resembles Rootki, but smaller and black. The author of the Ulfaz has without due enquiry pronounced this to be the Sumhaloo, but this is a different plant. It is hot and dry, useful in disorders of mucus.
987 Neyrmellie نرملى.—“Strychnos Potatorum, W. Cataca, San.” It is cool and dry, some say it is in equilibrium. If bruised and mixed with foul water, it will clear, and purify it. If bruised in water, and applied to the umbilicus, it will relieve the griping pain of dysentery. If bruised, and applied to the eyes, it will strengthen eye-sight; also if applied to the bite of a snake, it will remove the effects of the poison. If eight grains of it be mixed with a little water and sugar, and drank, it will be found beneficial in gonorrhœa. I have seen this in my uncle’s receipt book, but the dose was not there specified. If four grains of this be bruised in water, and mixed with dhaie, and left in a covered China vessel for a night, and taken in the morning, it will relieve suppression of urine, gonorrhœa, chordee, and bloody urine; but it must be used for a week.
988 Niswut نسوت or Mahaseyama, or Ritchita. It is a little bitter and sweet; also bitter during digestion. It is hot and dry; laxative; relieves wind; useful in fever, disorders of bile, mucus, dropsy, and swellings. The black kind is a poison and very hurtful; it is a powerful drastic purgative; produces insensibility, heat, giddiness, and injures the voice.
989 Nuk نک Is of two kinds, both sweet to the taste; hot and light; removes possession by evil spirits; beneficial in disorders of wind, mucus, and blood; is an antidote to poisons; cardiac, and clears the complexion, called Uzfarooteeb.
990 Nukchecknie نك چكنى.—A name for Koondush. It is a low shrub, does not rise from the ground; its leaves like the Tirrateruk; its flower like the Neemb. It produces eruptions in the mouth, beneficial in disorders of wind and phlegm, and is vermifuge. It is called Chicknie.
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Nukchikenie is a medicine of India, hot and dry; expels wind; beneficial in mucus, paralysis, and paralytic complaints, loss of memory, pains in the joints, and is aphrodisiac. If one seer of this with quarter seer of sweet oil, and half the weight of Mulkungnie, be put into an earthen vessel, and its oil extracted in the manner described under the head Puttaljuntur, and given in the quantity of four soorkhs in Paan, it will be useful in all the above-mentioned complaints, and in all mucous disorders. It will be advisable to use this medicine only in the cold weather, as it is, in itself, very hot and powerful.