[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877) › c4.s8.15 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s8.15 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s8.15 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s8.15) Lauhásava.² Take of powdered iron, of the three myrobalans, ginger, long pepper and black pepper, ajwain, baberung seeds, plumbago root, and tubers of Cyperus rotundus (\*mustaka\*), each thirty-two tolas, honey eight seers, treacle twelve and a half seers, water one hundred and twenty-eight seers. Powder the solid ingredients and steep them in the honey and water in an earthen jar smeared with ghee, for a month, or till complete fermentation takes place. This iron-wine is said to be tonic and stomachic, and useful in anæmia, spleen, anasarca, ascites, enlargements of the abdominal viscera, piles etc. - [Previous: c4.s8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s8.14) - [Next: c4.s8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s8.16) - [Up: c4.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s8.15) · Pramāṇa