The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s13.t1.21

c5.s13.t1.21

*Kirátádi taila*, or oil of chiretá.² Take of chiretá one seer, water sixteen seers, boil together till reduced to four seers and strain. Boil this decoction of chiretá, with four seers each of prepared mustard oil, *kánjika* and whey, and two tolás each of the following substances in the form of a paste, namely, root of *Sanseviera Zeylanica* (*murvá*), lac, turmeric, wood of *Berberis Asiatica* (*dáruharidrá*), madder, root of *Citrullus Colocynthis* (*in-draváruni*), *páchak* root, root of *Pavonia odorata* (*bálá*), of *Vanda Roxburghii* (*rásná*), *Scindapsus officinalis* (*gajapippali*), long pepper, black pepper, ginger, root of *Stephania hernandifolia*, (*páthá*), indrajava seeds, sonchal, vit, and rock salts, root of *Justica Adhátoda* (*vásaka*), *Calotropis gigantea* (*arka*), *Ichnocarpus frutescens* (*shyámalatá*), *Cedrus Deodara* (*devadáru*) and the fruit of *Trichosanthes palmata* (*mahákála*). The oil thus prepared is rubbed on the body in chronic fever with emaciation and anæmia.