[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.s26.t1.4 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s26.t1.4 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s26.t1.4 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s26.t1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s26.t1.4) \*Kadalyádi ghrita.\*¹ Take of plantain flowers twelve seers and a half, watery juice of the root-stock of the plantain tree sixty-four seers; boil them together till reduced to one-fourth and strain. To the strained decoction add four seers of prepared clarified butter and the following substances in the form of a paste, namely, unripe plantains, cloves, cardamoms, red sandal wood, wood of \*Pinus longifolia\*, (\*sarala\*), \*jatámánsi\* root, the three myrobalans, \*Raphanus sativus\* (\*mulaka\*), and the fruit of \*Feronia elephantum\* (\*kapittha\*) in equal parts, one seer in all, and prepare a \*ghrita\* in the usual way. This medicine is generally given along with some preparation of tin or other metallic medicine in diabetes. Dose, about two tolás. - [Previous: c5.s26.t1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s26.t1.3) - [Next: c5.s26.t1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s26.t1.5) - [Up: c5.s26.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s26.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s26.t1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s26.t1.4) · Pramāṇa