The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s6.2

c6.s6.2

HARTSHORN. Sans. मृगशृङ्ग, *Mrigasringa*. The antler of the deer incinerated in closed vessels is used in painful affections of the heart, pleurodynia, sciatica and lumbago. It is given in doses of about twenty-two grains with clarified butter. Burnt hartshorn leaves 57·5 per cent of phosphate of lime.¹