14 FARAS-NAMA-E RANGIN 



account give more than one date a day.* Item : give it^ instead of 

 the date, a daily almond, and it shall be whole. 



A yellowish hue of the membrane indicates " cold and damp " 

 in the temperament [hddl). As a cure give, for fifteen or twenty 

 days, black pepper with flour of moth ; ^ but care must be taken to 

 give this before the horse is watered in the morning. Item : take 

 one told^ of dry ginger, half a ^oZa of assaf oetida, and mix in a little 

 wheaten flour, and give after the evening feed. This must be 

 given for not more than three days, or else there will be the devil 

 to pay. Item : mix in the evening-grain not less than two tolas 

 of ''dill seed."* Give this for five to ten days. 



If the membrane is red, it indicates a heated condition of the 

 temperament {garml). Take equal parts of the belleric, the 

 chebulic, and the emblic myrobalan (tirphald),^ and grind roughly; 

 mix and put in a bag. At dusk take five tolas of this and soak 

 it in water in an earthern vessel. Eemove at dawn, and give it 

 at dawn before the morning-feed [nihdri).^ After that the horse 

 may be ridden. Continue the treatment till recovery. Item : 

 give for one day only a cowrie's weight of indigo, in the 

 drinking water. 



Should the membrane show recessive redness combined with 

 black spots, give up hope of recovery; treatment is useless and 

 death certain. The black spots indicate that the liver is corroded. 

 Though these black spots are not much to look at, they are a sure 

 indication of death. 



The urine, like the membrane, is an indication of the state of 

 health. If the urine is very light-coloured, it indicates a great 



1 Dates are " hot," and three or four are supposed to be sufficient to 

 bring a mare in season. In the Persian Gulf horses and camels are often 

 fed on dates, and in some places on fish and locusts also, vide page xviii. 



2 Moth, the aconite-leaved kidney-bean (Phaseolus aconitif alius) . 

 About 1 oz. of peppercorns is mixed in enough of mmth flour to make 

 a bolus, and this is administered in the morning about an hour before 

 watering. 



^ Six mdsha. 



* Soya or sowd, H,, Anethum Sowa or Peucedanum graveolens. 



^ Tirphald, i.e., har, baherd, and dnwld. 



^ Nihdri here means "the morning-meal" and not the mixture of gur, 

 dtd, ghi, dried colocynth, and salt, which is given to a tired horse as 

 a pick-me-up. (To fatten a horse tbe colocynth is omitted.) 



