The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s3.21

c4.s3.21

स्वल्पद्रावक *Svalpadrávaka*. Take of alum, chloride of ammonium, borax, sulphide of antimony, impure carbonates of potash and soda called *yavakshára* and *svarjikákshára*, and rock salt, each eight tolás, nitre six tolás, orpiment four tolás ; powder, mix and rub them together repeatedly with lemon juice and dry. Introduce the mixture into the receptacle of a distilling apparatus, and distill over the fire. The dose of the acid thus distilled is two drops. It should be taken with six grains of long pepper. One week's use of this medicine is said to cure spleen disease, dyspepsia, etc.