28 FARAS-NAMA-E RANGIN 



drawn the day before [i.e., very cold water). ^ Item: take foul 

 water that has been used in a hubble-bubble pipe and wash the 

 horse with that. Item : take some curds {dahJ), churn well, and 

 add a heaped-up handful ~ of gun-powder. Apply and keep the 

 horse in the sun ; the mange should show signs of disappearing in 

 three days. It is also a good thing to rub on, afterwards,^ Indian 

 rape-oil. Item : rub on for two or three days old and foul 

 water procured from a tanning-yard. Item : get four told of soap, 

 and half that amount of salt ; pound, mix, and tie up in a cloth ; 

 rub this over the body and then wash with very cold water.* A 

 cure should be effected in a few days. This is Khwaja Ahmad's 

 receipt, and a good one it is. Ite^n : get long-pepper,^ pound it 

 fine, and mix with unboiled oil ;^ apply in the sun. Next clean by 

 rubbing on earth, afterwards washing with water. 



True or Contagious Mange.'^ — In contagious mange the hair 

 comes off and the skin gets raw. Remedy : take of rice and neem ^ 

 leaves 1 lb. each, and boil together with water; cool; add 1 lb. 

 of sour curds (dahl), and mix by hand. Give this to the horse 

 for forty days, in place of a feed; but do not water for two or three 

 hours after. (Given for the same period, this is an excellent 

 cure for harsdtl.) 



To Promote a Growth op Hair. — If the hair does not grow, 

 strain water that rice has been boiled ^ in, and rub on that. If no 

 'plch ^ is available, the water in which rice has been washed ^^ before 

 cooking, can be substituted, as it, too, is beneficial. This will 

 produce a luxuriant crop of hair. 



1 This is a treatment for " prickly heat." Vide also note 5, p. 26. 



2 Lap. The word mutthi = as much as can be contained in the 

 closed band. Anjali is a double handful, i.e., as much as can be 

 contained in the hollowed hands side by side. 



^ Sarson, Sinapis Glauca. — Roxb. 



'* The ZlnaP'' 'l-Khayl says the bag should, after washing, be applied 

 a second time. 



^ F'qml, Piper longum. 



^ Kachchd tel, i.e., not boiled nor clarified. 



7 Agan held. 



^ Nlm, H., the neem, or Margosa Tree, Melia AzadiracJita. 



^ Plch, " rice-water." 



^^ Ghdnwal kd dhowan. 



