[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.s3.t1.83 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s3.t1.83 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s3.t1.83 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s3.t1.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.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. - [Previous: c5.s3.t1.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s3.t1.82) - [Next: c5.s3.t1.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s3.t1.84) - [Up: c5.s3.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s3.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s3.t1.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s3.t1.83) · Pramāṇa