24 FARAS-NAMA-E RANGIN 



Item : take root-bark of the ah ^ tree and roast it in hot ashes, but 

 do not burn it ; take an equal quantity of Indian bdellium - and 

 pound with 8 ozs. of grir, and give the whole as one dose. 

 Item : take seven pellets of camel-dung and mix with a little moth 

 flour and water. Make the horse eat this quantity for seven 

 days, in the evening. Item, : dissolve half a told of opium in a little 

 water, and add sufficient coarse wheaten flour to make into a ball ; 

 then get about one told of mango-ginger'^ and the same amount of 

 barilla;''^ pound these two together finely, and mix with one told of 

 bhainsiyd gogul.^ Conceal these inside the ball of opium and flour, 

 and cook in hot wood ashes. When thoroughly cooked and hard, 

 pound the ball fine and make into six pills, and give one morning 

 and evening. 



Should the horse be suddenly affected,^ take your whip, 

 mount the horse and ride it till it sweats from every pore. Then 

 dismount, clothe it warmly so that not a hair is visible, and either 

 di*y by rubbing down outside the clothing ; or put the horse to dry 

 in a warm stable free from draughts. After that give it a quart of 

 wine to induce a flow of sweat. Should the horse break out into a 

 sweat owing to the wine, give it another quart. Repeat the 

 remedy for several days, when a cure may be expected. Itevi : 

 make the horse swim in water. There is no danger in this, which 

 is a common treatment among the Kabulis. Item : take two and a 

 half leaves of the ak;'^ crush them in the hand, and give them to 

 the horse, first, however, rubbing ghl into its mouth.^ Item : 

 take about 4 ozs. each of ispand,^ asgand'^^ of Nagaur, omum 



1 Ale, dk, or ag, the name of calotropis gigantea as also of c. proceta. 

 In the Pan jab the fresh juice of the latter is used in infanticide. 



- Gogul, a gum-resin obtained from a small tree {Balsamodendron 

 nuJcul) . 



3 Amb haldi, the root of Curcuma Amada. 



^ An impure carbonate of soda made by burning certain plants, 

 notably one species of land. 



5 Or hayisa-gogul (Balsamodendron pubescens), a small tree that 

 yields a gum-resin. 



^ i.e., become chhdtl-hand from sudden chill. 



7 Vide note 1 above. 



^ To avoid blistering ? 



9 Ishand or ispand and harmal (Peganum Harmala). 



1" Nagauri asgand or asgandh (Withania somnifera). 



