34 FARAS-NAMA-E RANGIN 



in a cow-dung fire. When charred, pound to a powder and divide 

 into forty doses. Give one powder daily when watering. 



Hard Dry Cough. — For a hard dry cough,^ the following is, 

 without boasting,^ the best remedy out. Take about half a told of 

 good assafoetida and insert the whole inside a piece of green ginger 

 two told in weight, having scooped out a hole for its reception; 

 roast in hot ashes ; pound and give after the evening grain. If no 

 improvement takes place in two or three days, then. Item : give for 

 two or three days five and a half told of onion after watering, or, 

 Item: give the same amount of the leaves of the common bamboo 

 or of the large Bengal bamboo.^ Item : give 4 ozs. of Jcatdli * 

 roasted in hot ashes. Item : take 2 lbs. of omum seeds {ajwd,in), 

 and pound and soak for two or three days in your own urine ; 

 give of this, every evening after the feed, two told weight. A 

 speedy recovery may be expected. Item : give half a pint of cream 

 after watering. 



Until the cough is eradicated the above remedies should be 

 tried in turns. When a horse has a hard dry cough people say 

 dhdnstd hai. 



Indigestion. — Should a horse's stomach be out of order from 

 •injudicious feeding : Take equal parts of hhang,^ Indian mustard 

 seed {ra,i), and salt, and if to these an equal quantity of Jcachrl^ be 

 added, so much the better. Pound and mix with did, and give 

 two told after the evening feed. Then put on the bridle for three 

 hours, to prevent the horse from eating. In a short time the 

 horse's appetite will astonish you. 



If there is a grumbling'^ in the horse's belly, it is probably due 

 to an excess of mucus in the bowels. ^ As a remedy try " Sdrd,"^ 



1 Dhdnsi or dhdnsl is a hard dry cough, while khdnsi is an ordinary 

 cough. 



- Ding hdnJcnd, " to boast." 



^ Piyd-hdns, a variety of Bambusa Tulda. 



* Katdll =^ katell or hati,i, solanam xanthocarpum ? 



^ Bang in the text is, I think, a copyist's error for hlng, " assafcBtida." 



^ Kacharl or kachrl, Cucumis pubescens. 



■^ Qardgur, borborygmus. 



^ Anw, " mucus in the bowels." 



^ Sard, the name of a receipt: it is best given in the rains to 

 counteract the efEects of rank green grass. Another receipt will be 

 found in the Appendix. 



