The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s9.16

c4.s9.16

*Chandrodaya makaradhvaja*.¹ When *Makaradhvaja* is administered as an aphrodisiac, it is usual to mix it with some stimulant drugs, the resulting preparation being called *Chandrodaya makaradhvaja*. Thus take of *Makaradhvaja*, one part, camphor, nutmegs, black pepper, and cloves, each four parts musk one-sixteenth part, mix together and make into pills about ten grains each. These pills are enclosed or wrapped in betle leaves and chewed. Along with this medicine a generous diet consisting of meat, ghee, milk, pulses, etc, should be taken. It is used in nervous debility, impotence, premature old age etc.* A preparation similar in appearance to *Makaradhvaja* and called *Ashtavaktra rasa*, is sublimed from a mixture of mercury, sulphur, gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc and tin in equal parts. It is used in a nervine tonic, in general debility.