The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s9.t1.5

c5.s9.t1.5

The fresh juice of the leaves is given with salt in intestinal worms, and with honey in jaundice and skin diseases. The juice of nim leaves and of emblic myrobalans, quarter of a tolá each, are recommended to be given with the addition of clarified butter in prurigo, boils and urticaria.¹ *Nim* enters into the composition of several compound preparations used in skin diseases, such as the *Pancha tikta ghrita*, *Pancha nimba guḍiká*, *Pancha kasháya*, etc.