The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s6.31
The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s6.31
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c4.s6.31
*Vajrakapáta rasa.*³ Take of mercury, sulphur, opium, mocha-rasa, (gum of *Bombax Malabaricum*), the three myrobalans, ginger, black pepper, and long pepper, in equal parts, powder and mix. Soak the powder in the juice of the leaves of *Cannabis sativa* (*Vijayá*) and *Verbesina calendulacea* (*bhringarája*) seven times and make into six grain pills. This medicine is administered with honey in obstinate chronic diarrhœa. Dose grains four to twenty-four.