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The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t4.4

The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t4.4

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c5.s12.t4.4

*Jvaraghni guṭiká*.¹ Take of mercury one part; sulphur, colocynth pulp, cardamoms, long pepper, chebulic myrobalan, and pellitory root, each four parts. Rub these ingredients with the juice of *indraváruni* root and make into pills weighing about twenty grains each. These pills are administered with the fresh juice of *gulancha* in recent fever. They move the bowels and reduce the fever.