[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.s6.2 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s6.2 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s6.2 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.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 - [Previous: c6.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s6.1) - [Next: c6.s6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s6.3) - [Up: c6.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s6.2) · Pramāṇa