[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.s25.t1.7 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s25.t1.7 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s25.t1.7 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s25.t1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t1.7) \*Saubhágya sunṭi\*.¹ Take of clarified butter, sixteen tolás, milk four seers, sugar six seers and a quarter, dry ginger one seer; boil them together so as to make an electuary. Then add coriander twenty-four tolás, fennel seeds forty tolás, \*báberang\* seeds, cumin seeds, nigella seeds, long pepper, black pepper, ginger, tubers of \*Cyperus rotundus\*, leaves called \*tejapatra\*, flowers of \*Mesua ferrea\* (\*nágakesara\*), cinnamon and cardamoms each eight tolás in fine powder, and stir with a ladle till cold. This confection is much used as a carminative tonic in dyspepsia and in disorders of the alimentary canal in females after confinement. - [Previous: c5.s25.t1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t1.6) - [Next: c5.s25.t1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t1.8) - [Up: c5.s25.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t1.7) · Pramāṇa