[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877) › c4.s14.2 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s14.2 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s14.2 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.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. - [Previous: c4.s14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s14.1) - [Next: c4.s14.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s14.3) - [Up: c4.s14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s14.2) · Pramāṇa