The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s9.t1.3

c5.s9.t1.3

The bark is used in fever in combination with other medicines for this disease as for example, in the following compound decoction called Amritáshtaka.² Take of nim bark, gulancha, root of Picrorrhiza Kurroa (katuki), tubers of Cyperus rotundus (mustaka), seeds of Holarrhena antidysenterica (indrayava), leaves of *Momordica dioica* (*patala*), ginger and red sandal wood, each quarter of a tolá, water half a seer, boil till reduced to one-fourth. This decoction is given with the addition of honey and long pepper in fever supposed to be caused by deranged phlegm and bile and attended with vomiting, nausea, thirst and lassitude.