[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.s18.t2.2 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s18.t2.2 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s18.t2.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s18.t2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s18.t2.2) THE root of this plant is described as bitter, tonic, stomachic, laxative, and useful in fever, indigestion, anasarca etc. It is an ingredient of dasamula (\*see Desmodiun gangeticum\*), and is thus much used in a variety of diseases. Bangasena says that \*gambhári\* root taken with liquorice, honey and sugar increases the secretion of milk. The fruits of \*Gmelina arborea\* are sweetish bitter and cooling; they enter into the composition of several cooling or refrigerent decoctions for fever and burning of the body. The following is an example. Take of the fruits of \*Gmelina arborea\*, \*Grewia Asiatica\* (\*parushaka\*), liquorice root, red sandal wood, and the root of \*Andropogon muricatum\* (\*ushira\*), equal parts, in all two tolás, water thirty-two tolás, and boil till reduced to one half. This decoction is used as a drink in bilious fever.³ - [Previous: c5.s18.t2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s18.t2.1) - [Next: c5.s18.t2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s18.t2.3) - [Up: c5.s18.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s18.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s18.t2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s18.t2.2) · Pramāṇa