The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s8.6

c4.s8.6

Vrihat sarvajvara hara lauha.¹ Take of purified mercury and sulphur, prepared copper, iron pyrites, talc, gold and orpiment, each two tolás, prepared iron eight tolás, mix them together, and soak the mixture for seven days, in each of the following fluids, viz, fresh juice of the leaves of *Momordica Charantia* (*káravella*), decoction of dasamula or ten roots (see *Hedysarum Gangeticum*), decoction of *parpata* (*Hedyotis biflora*), and of the three myrobalans, fresh juice of *guruchi*, (*Tinospora cordifolia*), of betel leaves, of *kákamáchi* (*Solanum nigrum*), of *nirgundi*, (*Vitex Negundo*), of *punarnavá* (*Boerhaavia diffusa*) and of ginger. Divide the mass into two-grain pills, and administer with long pepper and treacle. The dose of the medicine may be gradually increased. It is used in all sorts of intermittent fevers, in emaciation, wasting, hectic fever, enlarged spleen, anæmia, loss of appetite etc. A light diet consisting of fine rice and poultry meat should be adopted during the use of this medicine, and all undigested food should be avoided.