The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s30.t1.5

c5.s30.t1.5

A mixture of ginger, cumin seeds, treacle, wine and warm water is given in ague with prolonged cold stage.¹ In chronic intermittent fever with debility, spirit distilled from rice, together with the flesh of fowls is recommended to be given as diet by most writers, but their advice is not followed in the present day. Several preparations of spirit distilled from treacle with the addition of various medicinal and aromatic substances are used in different diseases. The following is an example.