[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.t2.5 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s25.t2.5 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s25.t2.5 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s25.t2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t2.5) \*Haridrákhaṇḍa\*.³ Take of turmeric sixty-four tolás, clarified butter forty-eight tolás, milk sixteen seers, sugar twelve tolás, and boil them together over a gentle fire in an earthen pot. Then add black pepper, long pepper, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, tejapatra, báberang seeds, root of \*Ipomœa Turpethum\* (\*trivrit\*), the three myrobalans, flowers of \*Mesua ferrea\* (\*nágakesara\*), tubers of \*Cyperus rotundus\* (\*mustaka\*) and prepared iron, each eight tolás in fine powder, and prepare a confection. Dose, one tolá every morning in prurigo, boils, urticaria, etc. A cure is said to be effected in seven days. - [Previous: c5.s25.t2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t2.4) - [Next: c5.s25.t2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t2.6) - [Up: c5.s25.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s25.t2.5) · Pramāṇa