The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s21.t1.47

c5.s21.t1.47

Pránadá guḍiká.² Take of black pepper thirty-two tolás, ginger twenty-four tolás, long pepper sixteen tolás, Piper Chaba (chavya) eight tolás, leaves of Pinus Webbiana (tálisa) eight tolás, flowers of Mesua ferrea, (nágakesara) four tolás, long pepper root sixteen tolás, leaves called tejapatra and cinnamon one tolá each, cardamoms and the root of Andropogon muricatus, (usira) two tolás each, old treacle two hundred and forty tolás; rub them together. Dose, about two drachms. This confection is given in hæmorrhoids. When there is costiveness and a sense of heat, chebulic myrobalan is substituted for the ginger in the above prescription.