The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s11.13

c4.s11.13

*Mahámritunjaya lauha.*¹ Take of mercury, sulphur, talc, orpiment and realgar, each one part, iron two parts, copper four parts, *yavakshára* and *sarjikákshára* (impure carbonates of potash and soda), borax, black salt, burnt couries, and conch-shells, plumbago-root, assafœtida, root of *Picrorrhiza Kurroa* (*katuki*), *Amoora rohitaka* (*rohitaka*,) and *Ipomœa Turpethum* (*tivrit*); tamarind pulp, colocynth root, root bark of *Anogeissus latifolius* (*dhava*), root of *Alangium decapetalum* (*ankota*), *Achyranthes aspera* (*apámárga*), ashes of the spikes of the palm-tree, turmeric and wood of *Berberis Asiatica* (*dáruharidrá*), croton seeds, sulphate of copper, *rusot* and *Oxalis corniculata* (*amlaloniká*), all in equal parts, with the exception of *rohitaka* bark, which should be two parts. Powder the ingredients, mix, soak the mixture in the fresh juice of ginger and *gulancha* and add to it thirty-two *tolás* of honey. Make into six grain pills with honey. One pill is given every morning in enlarged liver, spleen disease, ascites etc.