[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877) › c5.s16.20 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s16.20 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s16.20 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s16.20) Kaṇṭakāryavaleha³ or electuary of \*Solanum Jacquinii\*. Take of kaṇṭakāri root twelve seers and a half, water sixty-four seers, boil till reduced to one fourth and strain. Boil the strained decoction till reduced to the consistence of a fluid extract, and add to it the following substances in fine powder, namely, gulancha, \*Piper Chaba\* (\*chavya\*), plumbago root, tubers of \*Cyperus rotundus\* (\*mustaka\*), \*Rhus succedanea\*, (\*karkaṭa sṛṅgi\*), long pepper, black pepper, ginger, \*Alhagi Maurorum\* (\*yāsa\*), \*Clerodendron Siphonanthus\* (\*vārgi\*), \*Vanda Roxburghii\*, (\*rásná\*) and zedoary root, each eight tolas, sugar two seers and a half, sesamum oil and clarified butter each one seer, and boil together till reduced to the proper consistence. Lastly add honey one seer, bamboo-manna and long pepper in fine powder, each half a seer. This electuary is given in various sorts of cough. - [Previous: c5.s16.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s16.19) - [Next: c5.s16.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s16.21) - [Up: c5.s16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s16.20) · Pramāṇa