The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t5.16

c5.s12.t5.16

Several oils or liniments for external application are prepared with this plant. The following, called *Kubja prasárani taila*,² is largely used by native physicians. Take of the entire plant of *Pæderia fœtida* eight hundred tolás, boil in sixty-four seers of water till reduced to sixteen seers, and strain. To the strained decoction, add sesamum oil, sixteen seers, milk, thirty-two seers, whey and fermented paddy water (*kánjika*), each sixteen seers, and the following substances, namely, root of *Pæderia fœtida*, plumbago root, long pepper root, liquorice, rock salt, *Acorus Calamus* root, dill seeds, bark of *Cedrus Deodara*, root of *Vanda Roxburghii* (*rásná*), *Scindapsus officinalis* (*gajapippali*), jatámánsi root and marking nuts, each two tolás in the form of a paste. First boil the oil with the decoction of *Pæderia fœtida* till the water is nearly evaporated, then boil the oil successively with the addition of milk, whey and *kánjika*, adding the aromatic paste during the last process of boiling. This oil is used externally in rheumatism with contraction and stiffness of the joints. After the application of the oil, the affected parts should be fomented with dry heat.