The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s18.6

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c4.s18.6

*Agnikumára rasa.*² Take of borax, mercury and sulphur, each one tolá, aconite, calcined cowries and conch-shells, each three tolás, black pepper eight tolás, rub them together for twelve hours with lime juice and make into twelve-grain pills. This medicine is said to increase the appetite and cure indigestion. Calcined conch-shell in half a drachm doses is recommended to be taken with lime juice in enlarged spleen.³

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