The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s8.21

c4.s8.21

*Vidyádharábhra*.³ Take of baberung seeds, tubers of Cyperus rotundus (*mustaka*), the three myrobalans, gulancha, root of *Baliospermum montanum* (*danti*), of *Ipomœa Turpethum* (*trivrit*), of *Plumbago Zeylanica* (*chitraka*), ginger, long pepper and black pepper, each two tolás, prepared iron thirty-two tolás, old iron rust thirty-two tolás, prepared talc eight tolás, purified mercury one tolá and a half, sulphur two tolás. Rub together the sulphur and mercury, then mix them with the other ingredients, add sufficient ghee and honey, and rub them together for twelve hours. Preserve the confection in an earthen pot smeared with ghee. Dose from ten to thirty grains with milk or cold water. This medicine is used in chronic dyspepsia, especially in that form of the disease in which the pain comes on after digestion is completed, and in chronic fever, diarrhœa, phithisis etc.