[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.s7.22 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s7.22 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s7.22 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s7.22) \*Punarnavá mandura\*.¹ Take of \*Boerhaavia diffusa\* (punarnavá) \*Ipomœa Turpethum\* (trivrit), ginger, long pepper, black pepper, \*báberang\* seeds, \*devadáru\* wood, plumbago root, \*pátchak\* root, the three myrobalans, turmeric, wood of \*Berberis Asiatica\*, (\*dáruharidrá\*) root of \*Baliospermum montanum\*, (\*danti\*), \*Piper Chaba\* (\*chaviká\*), indrajava seeds, root of \*Picrorrhiza Kurroa\* (\*katuki\*), long pepper root and the tubers of \*Cyperus rotundus\* (\*mustaka\*), equal parts; iron rust in weight equal to twice that of all the other ingredients; mix them together and boil the mixed powder in eight times its weight of cow's urine till the watery part is evaporated. Dose, about twenty-two grains, in jaundice, ascites, anasarca, enlargements of the abdominial viscera, painful dyspepsia, etc. - [Previous: c6.s7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s7.21) - [Next: c6.s7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s7.23) - [Up: c6.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s7.22) · Pramāṇa