The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s21.t1.40

c5.s21.t1.40

Madana modaka.¹ Take of the three myrobalans, ginger, long pepper, black pepper, *Rhus succedanea* (sringi), páchak root, coriander, rock salt, zedoary root, leaves of *Pinus Webbiana* (tálisa), bark of *Myrica sapida* (katphala) flowers of *Mesua ferrea* (nágakesara), ajowan, seeds of *Seseli Indicum* (vanuyamáni), liquorice root, seeds of *Trigonella fœnum-græcum* (methi), cumin and nigella seeds equal parts; hemp leaves with flowers and seeds fried in clarified butter, equal in weight to all the other ingredients; sugar equal in weight to the hemp. Prepare a syrup with the sugar, then add the other substances in fine powder and make into a confection. Lastly add clarified butter, honey, powdered sesamum seeds, cardamoms, cinnamon, *tejapatra* leaves and camphor, each two tolás, and make into boluses of about eighty grains each. This confection is used in cough, chronic bowel complaints and impotence.