[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.s19.11 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s19.11 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s19.11 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.11) गुटिका \*Gutiká\*. This salt, mentioned by Susruta and some later writers, cannot be identified at present. In the treatise called \*Dravyaguna\* by Chakra Datta, his commentator Siva Dass says that the name \*gutiká\* is derived from the circumstance of the salt assuming a hard, granular or nodular shape from boiling. So that it is a sort of boiled salt. Susruta describes it as stomachic digestive and laxative. - [Previous: c4.s19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.10) - [Next: c4.s19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.12) - [Up: c4.s19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Dravyaguṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.nighantu.dravyaguna) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.11) · Pramāṇa