571 Seroopbudder سروپ بدر.—A name also of Gumbar.
572 Surwalla سروالا.—The name of a common shrub.
573 Sussa سوسا.—A name for the hare. The meat is sweet, cool, and light; induces costiveness, increases appetite, cures difficulty of breathing and sunpat, removes dysentery, and is both a medicine and article of diet.
574 Suffrie Amer سفرى انبر.—The Guava, “Psidium pyriferum.” Vide Anervade.
575 Segund Philla سكندپهلا.—A kind of date.
576 Soogunass سوگناس.—A name for Arloo.
577 Sillajeet سيلاجيت, also Silladeet, Styrax or Storax; a balsam, pungent, bitter, and stimulating, more pungent in digestion; hot, cures seminal weakness, piles from cold, Juzam, dropsy, marasmus, difficulty of breathing, tabes, idiotism, swellings of the body, disorders of mucus and blood. Is vermifuge, lithontriptic, and otherwise generally useful. It in one of the most powerful remedies; is stronger than any other ingredient in whatever formulæ it may form a part, and it increases the effects of all others; it is the favorite medicine of all Indian physicians.
Sut Sillajeet is the strongest, for this means Sillajeet in a refined state. I have found it excellent in gonorrhœa, and for thickening the seminal fluid; also for strengthening the kidnies and urinary bladder. The mode of preparing it, is as follows:
The Sillajeet is dissolved in water and placed in the sun in a new earthen vessel till it becomes thick, and its color assumes a reddish or yellowish hue; then it must be taken from the surface as much as is clean, and preserved in another new vessel; this too is placed in the sun, well protected from dust, till it becomes dry. This is the Sut Sillajeet, and what remains in the first vessel is again purified in the same manner for three different times, and each time the pure drug is dried as above. It is easily purified by fire, and more quickly; but this is much to be preferred. It is brought from the hills ready prepared.
Maadentezerrubad.