The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s17.5

c4.s17.5

*Chandrámrita rasa.*² Take of the three myrobalans, ginger, long pepper and black pepper, *Chavica officinarum* (*chaviká*), coriander, cumin seeds and rock salt, each one tolá, and rub them together with goat's milk. Then add mercury, sulphur and iron, each two tolás, borax eight tolás and black pepper four tolás, all in fine powder, mix and make into pills or boluses about eighteen grains each. They are administered with goat's milk in chronic bronchitis and various sorts of cough with copious expectoration. Along with these pills a decoction made of *gulancha*, *Adhatoda vasica* (*vásaka*), *Clerodendron Siphonanthus* (*brahmayashti*), *Cyperus rotundus* (*mustaka*), and *Solanum Jacquinii* (*kantakári*) should be administered.