The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s25.5

c4.s25.5

*Vasanta Kusumákara rasa*.¹ Take of prepared gold and camphor, each two parts, of prepared tin, lead and iron, three parts each, prepared talc, pearls and coral, four parts each. Rub these ingredients together in a mortar and soak the powder seven times successively in each of the following fluids, namely milk, sugar-cane juice, juice of *Adhatoda Vasica* (*vàsaka*), decoction of lac and of *Pavonia odorata* (*bálá*), juice of the flowers and rootstock of the plantain tree, of the root-stock of *Nelumbium speciosum* (*padma*) and of the flowers of *Aganosma caryophyllata* (*málatipuspa*). Lastly soak in an infusion of musk prepared by macerating one part of musk in eight parts of warm water for twelve hours. Divide this mass into four-grain pills. They are given with sugar, honey and ghee in urinary diseases, impotence, gleet, diabetes, consumption and general debility. This medicine is regarded as a valuable alterative tonic in chronic gonorrhoea and spermatorrhoea and is much prescribed in these complaints in combination with an extract called *Kusávalehá* (see Sugar cane).