[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.s9.6 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s9.6 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s9.6 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s9.6) \*Mrigánka rasa.\*² Take of mercury one part, prepared gold one part, sulphur and pearls each two parts, borax one-fourth part, rub them together and beat into a ball with \*kánjika\*. This is dried, enclosed in an earthen crucible and exposed to heat within a pot of rock-salt in the manner of a hot sand-bath for twelve hours. When cool the ball is taken out from the crucible and reduced to powder. It is administered in doses of one to four grains with about a scruple of black pepper in phthisis. Two other preparations used in this disease, and called \*Pottali hemagarbha rasa\*, and \*Ratnagarbha pottali rasa\*, respectively, are similar in composition to the \*Mrigánka rasa\*. They contain mercury, sulphur, gold, pearls, borax etc, in varying proportions. - [Previous: c4.s9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s9.5) - [Next: c4.s9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s9.7) - [Up: c4.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c4.s9.6) · Pramāṇa