633 Seep سيپ or Seepie. A name for Suduf (a shell). It is pungent, shining, and promotes digestion and appetite, strengthens the system, and is an antidote to poisons.

634 Saeb سايب.—A name for Tuffah. In Yunani works, the Indian kind is called Harara or Seoharara; it is cardiac, and its preserve is more so; it is aphrodisiac, and produces flatulence; when unripe it is acid and astringent, and hurtful, produces cough and decreases bile. Its corrector is salt.

635 Seetaphill سيتاپهل.—The common Shereefa, q. v.

636 Singia سنكيا or Singia Jur, (Aconite.) A root like Gentian, but a most deadly poison, and as such used by the Nepaulese. It is also called Singia Khar or Beechnak. It is described in several works as a most active poison, and not to be given by itself even in the smallest quantity. It is made up for internal use as follows:

Take of quicksilver, Singia, Hurtaal (refined), chillies, sulphur (purified), Peepul, fine ginger, Hurrha, (large) Anula, borax (refined), Bahera, nutmeg, each a pice weight.

Mix the quicksilver and sulphur together with a little of the juice of the Bhangra, then add the Hurtaal, rubbing them well, and add all the others, with more of the juice of the Bhangra, till 10 pint bottles or five seers shall be expended; this and these must be rubbed continually during 12 days, and till it acquires the consistence of a mass proper for pills. It is then to be made up into small pills of the size of a small pea each. These are given one for a dose, with the following vehicles, and in the cure of the following disorders; and during their exhibition, only simple food, and no acid to be used.

WithKutkuleja leaves, inVomiting, Cholera, &c.
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Cow’s urine, in the cure ofDiarrhœa.
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Toolsi leaves,Internal heat.
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Lime juice, and applied to the eyes,Evil spirits depart.
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Kusskuss water, in the cure ofBilious disorders.
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Tirphilla and ginger, inAsthma.
WithSeed of Methi infusion,Dysentery.
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Honey,Emaciation.
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Ditto, to thickenSemen.
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Butch, in the cure ofTooth-ache.
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Pounded Kusskuss,Dropsy.
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Nutmeg,Rheumatism from wind.
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Onion Juice,Bites of snakes.
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Infus. of Adjwain,Thirst.
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[1]Juice of Kussownda,Wind.
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Radish juice,Offensive breath.
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[1]Soopearie juice,(rubbed,)Cholicks of children.
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Gopie earth,Strangury.
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Cow’s Ghee,Bites of snakes.
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Root of Semel tree,Every thing.
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Old Goor,Internal heat.
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[1]Eleachee,(Guzerathee,)Intermittents.
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Mugrela and salt,Indigestion.
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Doob grass,Diarrhœa.
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Mace, externally inNight blindness.
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Goonchee, in the cure ofGeneral Rheumatism.
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Pith of Bela,Vertigo.
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Water of burnt wheat,Sunpat.

[1] Often tried with effect. [↑]