The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s15.11

c4.s15.11

Sulachanàmritábhra.¹ Take of prepared talc eight tolás, rub it with eight tolás each of the fresh juice or decoction of the following drugs, namely, pulp of *Ziziphus Jujuba* (kola), *Chavica officinarum* (chaviká), root of *Andropogon muricatus* (usira), pomegranate fruit, lemon juice, emblic myrobalan and *Oxlais corniculata* (amlalonikà), and make into pills about six grains each. This medicine is used in loss of appetite, disinclination for food, dyspepsia, vomiting, urinary diseases, anasarca and debility. It is tonic, alterative and aphrodisiac. The preparation called *Kandarpa kumárábhra* is very similar to the above in composition. In disorders of the urine the following called *Harisankara rasa*² in used. Soak some prepared talc in the juice of emblic myrobalans seven times in the course of a week and make into two-grain pills.