the name of a medicine, highly celebrated among the Chinese and Indians, and made of several aromatic ingredients, the perfumes, medicinal earth, and precious stones: they make the whole into a stiff paste, and form out of it several figures according to their fancy, which are dried for use; these are principally used in the East Indies, but are sometimes brought over to Portugal. In China, the principal persons usually carry a small piece in their mouths, which is a continued cordial, and gives their breath a very sweet smell. It is a highly valuable medicine, also, in all nervous complaints; and is esteemed a prolonger of life, and a provocative to venery, the two great intentions of most of the medicines in use in the East.