[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) › c6.s4.4 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s4.4 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s4.4 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s4.4) \*Suchiká bharana rasa.\*¹ Take of mercury, sulphur, prepared tin, aconite and cobra poison, equal parts, mix them together and soak the mixed powder in the bile of rohitaka fish (\*Cyprinus Rohita\*), wild boar, peacock, buffalo and goat successively and make into a pill-mass. This medicine is administered in doses that can be taken up by the point of a needle, hence it is called \*suchikábharana\*. It is given in remittent fever with cerebral complications. - [Previous: c6.s4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s4.3) - [Next: c6.s4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s4.5) - [Up: c6.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s4.4) · Pramāṇa