The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s3.t1.83

c5.s3.t1.83

*Varunádya ghrita*.⁴ Take of coarsely powdered *varuna* bark twelve seers and a half, water sixty-four seers, boil together till reduced to one-fourth and strain. To the strained decoction, add four seers of clarified butter, and two tolás each of the following substances in the form of a paste, namely, *varuna* bark, unripe splantains, bela fruit, the five roots called trinaja pancha mulaka (see Sugar cane), gulancha, leaves of Coleus aromaticus (asmabheda), cucumber seeds, Acorus Calamus root, bamboo-manna, the ashes of Sesamum Indicum (tila), and of Butea frondosa (palása) and the root of Jasminum auriculatum (juthiká). Boil them together and prepare a ghrita in the usual way. It may be given in doses of one to two tolás, according to the constitution of the patient. After this medicine is digested, butter-milk and treacle should be taken.