[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.s9.t1.7 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s9.t1.7 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s9.t1.7 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s9.t1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s9.t1.7) \*Pancha tikta ghrita\*.² Take of nim bark, leaves of \*Momordica dioica\* (\*patala\*), \*Solanum Jacquinii\* (\*kantakári\*), gulancha, and bark of \*Adhatoda vasica\* (\*vásaka\*), each eighty tolás, and boil them in sixty-four seers of water till it is reduced to one-fourth. To the strained decoction, add four seers of clarified butter and a seer of the three myrobalans in the form of a paste, and prepare a ghrita in the usual way. This preparation is given in doses of three to six drachms in chronic skin diseases. - [Previous: c5.s9.t1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s9.t1.6) - [Next: c5.s9.t1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s9.t1.8) - [Up: c5.s9.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s9.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s9.t1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c5.s9.t1.7) · Pramāṇa