The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s12.t9.7

c5.s12.t9.7

Kuṭajaleha² or confection of kuṭaja bark. Take of kuṭaja bark twelve seers and a half, water sixty-four seers; boil down to sixteen seers and strain. Boil the strained decoction till reduced to a thick consistence, then add sonchal salt, yavakshára, vit salt, rock salt, long pepper, flowers of Woodfordia floribunda (dhátaki), indrayava seeds and cumin seeds, each sixteen tolas, in fine powder, and prepare a confection. Dose, about a drachm with honey in chronic and acute dysentery.