The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s8.38

c4.s8.38

In urinary diseases the following, called *Meha mudgara rasa*,³ is used. Take of *rusot*, black salt, wood of *Berberis Asiatica* (*dáruharidrá*), root of *Ægle Marmelos* (*bilva*), *Tribulus terrestris* (*gokshura*), pomegranate seeds, chiretta, long pepper-root, long pepper, black pepper, ginger, the three myrobalans and root of *Ipomœa Turpethum* (*trivrit*), each one *tolá*, prepared iron fifteen *tolás*, bdellium eight *tolás*, mix them together and beat into a uniform mass with ghee. Dose twenty-two grains with water or goat's milk. This medicine is said to be useful in gonorrhoea, strangury, chronic fever, anæmia, jaundice etc.