A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c15.48

v1.c15.48

A series of twenty-nine snehabastis, 154 also yāpana in action, is described; they are characterized as excellent aphrodisiacs (vṛṣya); the potency (vīrya) of these substances will be increased by boiling them a hundred or thousand times, dependent on the funds available (12.19). The total number of formulations comes up to two hundred and sixteen 155 (12.24–28).