The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s24.t2.10

c5.s24.t2.10

Medicinally mánaka is said to be useful in anasarca, in which disease it is used in the following manner. Take of the powdered meal of Alocasia Indica eight tolás, powdered rice sixteen tolás, water and milk, forty-eight tolás each, boil them together till the water is evaporated. This preparation called Mánamanda, is given as diet.¹ No other article is allowed in addition to it except milk. A ghrita is also ordered to be made with a decoction and paste of mánaka but it is not in vogue.