The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s7.t2.20

c4.s7.t2.20

Orpiment forms an ingredient of several external applications for skin diseases. Thus, take of orpiment, wood of *Berberis lycium* (*dáruharidrá*), seeds of *Raphanus sativus* (*mulaka*), wood of *Pinus Deodara* and betle leaves, each two tolás, burnt conch-shell half a tolá, beat them together with water into a thin paste. This paste is an useful application in psoriasis.¹