The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s14.2

c4.s14.2

Nityánanda rasa.³ Take of mercury, prepared copper, iron, bell-metal and tin, purified orpiment, sulphate of copper and calcined conch-shell and couries, sulphur, ginger, long pepper and black pepper, the three myrobalans, baberung seeds, the five salts, namely, rock, sun-dried sea, black, sonchál and Sambar Lake salts, *Chavica officinarum* (*chavika*), long pepper root, *havusa* (an aromatic substance), *Acorus Calamus* (*vacha*), *Curcuma zedoaria* (*sati*), *Stephania hernandifolia* (*páthá*), *Pinus deodara*, cardamoms, seeds of *Argyreia speciosa* (*vridhya dáraka*) each two tolás, rub together with the juice or decoction of chebulic myrobalans and make into ten-grain pills. They are given in hydrocele and elephantiasis of the scrotum. The remark that, when a disease has a long list of drugs for curing it, one may take it for an incurable one, is well exemplified in this medicine for elephantiasis of the scrotum.