The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s6.37

c4.s6.37

*Mahágandha rasa*.² Take of mercury and sulphur each two tolás, and make a *Parpati* as before described. Take of nutmegs, mace, cloves, and *nim* leaves, each two tolás, powder them well, mix together, and inclose the mixture within bi-valve shells. Cover the shells with a layer of clay and roast in fire. When cool, extract the medicine from the shells. It is administered in doses of about four grains in the acute diarrhœa of children.