[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.s8.24 # The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s8.24 The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s8.24 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s8.24) Chhágaládya ghrita.¹ Take of goat's meat six seers and a quarter, the ten drugs called dasamula six seers and a quarter in all, water sixty-four seers; boil till the latter is reduced to one-fourth and strain. Take of clarified butter, milk and the juice of \*Asparagus racemosus\* (\*satamuli\*), four seers each ; and the following substances in the form of a paste, namely, \*Tinospora cordifolia\* (\*guruchi\*), bamboo-manna, \*Withania somnifera\* (\*asvagandhá\*), \*Hemidesmus Indicus\* (\*sárivá\*), berries called \*kákoli\*, bulbs called \*kshira-kákali\*, pulse of \*Phaseolus trilobus\* (\*mugáni\*), and of \*Glycine debilis\* (\*masháni\*), \*Cœlogyne ovalis\*, (\*jivanti\*), and liquorice root (one seer in all) ; boil them together and prepare a \*ghrita\*. This preparation is given in facial paralysis, deafness, loss of voice or indistinct speech, convulsions, hysteria, sciatica, paralysis and other diseases of the nervous system. - [Previous: c6.s8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s8.23) - [Next: c6.s8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s8.25) - [Up: c6.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dutt-1877.c6.s8.24) · Pramāṇa