[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.s19.15 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s19.15 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s19.15 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.15) \*Nárikelakshára\*.² Take a cocoa-nut fruit full of water, make a hole in it and fill the cocoa-nut with rock salt, that is, dissolve the salt in its water. Then close the opening, cover the nut with a ayer of clay and roast it in a pit of fire. The salt thus roasted is esteemed as a valuable medicine in the form of dyspepsia which is attended with pain, two or three hours after meals. It is given with the addition of long pepper. Dose about a quarter tolá. - [Previous: c4.s19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.14) - [Next: c4.s19.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.16) - [Up: c4.s19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s19.15) · Pramāṇa