The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s25.t1.18

c5.s25.t1.18

Saindhavádya taila.³ Take of dry ginger forty tolás, rock-salt, long pepper root and plumbago root, sixteen tolás each, marking nuts twenty in number, fermented rice water sixteen seers, sesamum oil four seers, boil them together and prepare an oil in the usual way. This oil is rubbed externally in sciatica and other forms of rheumatism.