The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t6.10

c5.s12.t6.10

*Bhringarája taila.*¹ Take of sesamum oil four seers, juice of *bhringarája* leaves, sixteen seers, iron rust, the three myrobalans and the root of *Ichnocarpus frutescens* (*syámalatá*), reduced to a paste, in all one seer, and prepare an oil in the usual way. This oil is said to remove scurf from the head, turn grey hairs black, and cure alopecia.