1027 Hoorhoora هوڑهوڑا.—A small plant, with many flowers, of a white color, and very small: one kind of it is called Burumseerjela. The first kind is cool, heavy, and diuretic; useful in disorders of mucus and wind. The second is hot and light; useful in seminal weakness and fever; and is lithontriptic, and removes difficulty of voiding urine.
1028 Hurunkherie هرن كهيرى or Hurunkhoorie. A small plant of India; its leaves resembling a deer’s hoof, which has given it this title. It is usually found in wheat fields; it is hot, and aperient; useful in scabies, Juzam, and loss of sensation. If one direm fresh be eaten with 10 grains of black-pepper, bruised, daily, it will restore lost sensation.
1029 Hurtaal هرتال.—“The yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment.” Pungent and astringent; hot and dry; useful in disorders from poison, scabies, Juzam, aphthæ, disorders of the blood, mucus and bile, fever, and possession with evil spirits. It is a common application in scabies, and is called Zernikh Zerd. It is of five kinds, yellow, red, green, white, and black. The yellow is called Hurtaal, and the white kind is used by alchymists in the transmutation of metals; it is in the opinion of every one hot and dry in the 3rd or 4th degree; its corrector is milk and cow’s ghee; its dose four ratties, after it is killed or prepared, and is thus much esteemed as a medicine in disorders from cold, such as paralysis, epilepsy, affections of the joints, Juzam, and white leprosy. It is aphrodisiac, and increases appetite and digestion.
It is thus prepared for use in Leprosy.
Take one tolah of yellow arsenic, wash it seven times in milk, then grind it for 24 hours, adding as it dries, a little milk, then let it dry a little, and make it up into small pills. Then take half seer of the Bhurr Tree (the bark), pound it, and put it in a vessel, and among the powder put the pills with a little Chunam (lime), above and below them; after this, shut the vessel so well up that no smoke can escape, put it on the fire, and keep it in a strong heat for six hours; then opening the vessel, pour in over the pills a little ghee (butter), to cool them. The dose will be one soorkh daily, for seven days, abstaining from any thing salt.
Another method.
Take half a tolah of Hurtaal Tubki, bruise it, and grind it with milk or the juice of the castor; form it into pills as above. Then take of Dharafilfil half a tolah, bruise, and use it in lieu of the chunam above alluded to; form the pile of 15 pieces of cow-dung in a hole dug in the ground, on these lay the pills, supported and covered with the Dharafilfil; over them place an equal number of pieces of cow-dung, and set fire to the whole. When it is cold, take out the pills, and preserve them for use. Dose half Soorkh.
Another method.
Take of the Hurtaal half a direm, bruise and grind it with the juice of the Kobee, for six hours, then form it into pills, place them in an earthern vessel well luted, then surround it with 10 pounds of dried cow-dung, set it on fire, and when cool, remove them. The dose one grain or barley corn. Salt prohibited. Given in Paan.
Another method.