991 Nullwa نلوا.—Cool; strengthens the eye-sight; useful in bilious disorders, affections of the blood, Juzam, difficulty of voiding urine, general heat, mucus, and acne.
992 Null نل or Nullie; grows in watery and moist places; it is cool, and useful in disorders of the eyes, in eruptions of the mouth or apthæ; clears the blood; clears and dries the vagina, and is diuretic. Some have called it heating.
993 Nemuk Chitchera نمك چچيرا Is thus made. Take two bundles of that kind of Chitchera, which has inverted prickles, reduce it to ashes, and collect them into a vessel; then add a great quantity of water, and mix and wash it well with the hand; leave it for a night, add more water, put it into a cloth, and let it strain through slowly by drops; boil the clear fluid till the salt will precipitate or crystallize.
994 Nemuk Soonchur نمك سنچر also called Nemuk Sia. “Muriate of soda. Bitlaban. Kala Nemuck, H.” A tonic in dyspepsia or gout; a deobstruent in obstructions of the spleen and mysenteric glands of children; a stimulant in chronic rheumatism and palsy; a vermifuge. An analysis of the black salt gave,
“Black oxide of iron, six grains; sulphur, 14 grains; muriate of lime, 12 grains; muriate of soda, 444 grains; loss four grains = 480 grains.” It is thus prepared: Take two seers of Anula, one seer of Ashkhur, bruise both and mix them with 20 seers of rock-salt, also bruised; put the whole into a vessel, cover the vessel with a cloth, all except the mouth; lute this cloth well with soft clay, and place it in the sun to dry. When perfectly dry, put it on the fire, (let the mouth of the vessel be rather small.) Keep constantly stirring it with an iron spatula or spoon; when well boiled and mixed, take it off and allow it to cool; then add Tinkhar, Jawakhar, Tilkh, Kibreeth, sweet salt, and soot, equal parts; mix all well together, and add a quantity of salt-water; then boil the whole down, and strain as directed under the head Nemuk Chitchera.
995 Nemuk Kutchloon نمك كچلون.—The salt of glass, called Muskhoo Koonia, also Zoobdat ul Kawareer. It is the froth of glass; it creates appetite; clears the blood: there is another kind of salt called Budhloon. This is hot and stomachic; restrains laxities of the bowels, pains, and consequent swellings of the urinary bladder, heaviness, and stuffing of the chest, disorders of wind and mucus; also expels wind.
996 Nemuk Udhbidh نمك آدهبدة.—The common Unkaloon; this is a kind of black salt; it is light; clears the blood; it is speedy in its effects, and as an external application, and it expels wind.
997 Nemuk Sœndha نمك سيندها.—Sweet to the taste; cool, moist, and light; promotes appetite and digestion. Is cardiac, strengthens vision, and is useful in wind and bile.
998 Nekund Baaperi نكندباپرى.—A medicine of India, called also Oontura or Anere. It is hot and moist. If used as much as can be held in the palm of the hand, for a year, no poison will prove hurtful; in fact it counteracts the poison of snakes, and all other poisons. If two direms be eaten with as much aniseseed, for six months, the hair will not become white; two direms ate with dhaie, will be found effectual in gonorrhœa. Eaten with the leaves of the lime tree, and four seeds of peepul, it will cure obstinate fevers; with goat’s milk, will cure quartans; with Foifil for three months, will cure white leprosy, also foulness of the blood, Juzam, boils, and scabies.
999 Nundbyrchun نندبيرچن or Nundbyrkha. Hot and light, and in its properties resembling the peepul; indeed it is reckoned a species of that tree. It is useful in disorders of mucus, blood, poisons, boils, and cuticular eruptions.