The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s1.t1.19

c5.s1.t1.19

In chronic fever with strong shivering fits, copious perspiration, or much heat of body, aconite is used in combination with salts and aromatics, as in the following called *Saubhágya vatiká*.³ Take of aconite, borax, cumin seeds, the five salts, *viz.* rock, sea, sonchal, vit and sambar salts, the three myrobalans, ginger, long pepper and black pepper, prepared talc, mercury and sulphur, in equal parts. First rub the mercury and sulphur together, then mix them with the other ingredients, soak the mixture seven times successively in the juice of the following leaves, namely, of *Vitex* Negundo (nirgundi) Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis (sepháliká), Eclipta prostrata (kesarája), Adhatoda Vasica (vásaka) and Achyranthes aspera (apámárga), and make into four-grain pills.