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# The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s10.t3.7

The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s10.t3.7

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### [c5.s10.t3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s10.t3.7)

\*Dasamula taila\*. This is an oil prepared with a decoction of the ten drugs above mentioned, and is much used as a cooling application in headache and other diseases. To prepare it take of the ten drugs, in all twelve seers and a half, water sixty four seers. Boil down to sixteen seers and strain. To the strained decoction add four seers of lemon juice, four seers of prepared sesamum oil and a seer of the usual aromatics and colouring agents in the form of a paste and boil them together.

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