The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s17.t2.21

c5.s17.t2.21

Vásáchandanádi taila.¹ Take of vásaka plant, twelve seers and a half, water sixty-four seers; boil till reduced to one-fourth. Take of lac eight seers, water sixty-four seers; boil down to sixteen seers. Take of red sandal wood, gulancha, root of Clerodendron Siphonanthus (brahmayashti), the ten drugs called dasamula and Solanum Jacquinii (nidigdhiká), each two seers and a half, water sixty-four seers; boil down to sixteen seers. To these decoctions, add of whey and prepared sesamum oil sixteen seers each and the following substances in the form of a paste, namely, red sandal wood, liquorice, wood of Berberis Asiatica, long pepper, black pepper, ginger, turmeric, páchak root, emblic myrobalans, tejapatra leaves, wood of Cedrus Deodara, cinnamon, and cardamom, seeds called renuka, pouch of civet cat, root of Withania somnifera (asvagandhá), Pæderia fœtida (prasárani), Vanda Roxburghii (rásná), saileya (a sort of lichen), zedoary root, and the fruit of Aglaia Roxburghiana (priangu), each eight tolás; and boil them together in the usual way. This oil is rubbed on the body in affections of the chest and especially in phthisis.