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SANSKRIT MATERIA MEDICA. 



cool, extract the medicine from the sheila. It is administered in 

 doses of about four grains in the acute diarrhoea of children. 



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Pdndimulana rasa. 1 In jaundice, mercury is used along with 

 other alteratives and purgatives, as in the following, called 

 Pdndusudana rasa. Take of mercury, sulphur, prepared copper, 

 croton seeds and bdellium, equal parts, rub them together with 

 ghee and make into two-grain pills. They are given with the 

 juice of nim bark and honey in jaundice. Acids and cold water 

 for drinking should be avoided. 



In affections of the lungs mercury is used in a variety of 

 combinations. The following are a few illustrations. 



Basendra qudika? Take of purified mercury two tola3. Add 

 to it one tola of the juice of jayanti leaves ( Sesbania Aculeata ) 

 and of fresh ginger, rub together till the mixture thickens, then 

 soak it in the juice of Jussioea repens ( Icanchata) and Solarium 

 Indicum ( vrihati ) respectively for twenty -four hours. Take of 



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purified sulphur eight tolas and soak in the juice of Wedelia 

 calendulacea ( bhringardja ). When dry, mix the sulphur with 

 the mercury, and rub together with sixteen tolas of goat's milk 

 till the mass is fit for being made into pills. Dose about four 

 grains, to be taken with goat's milk and juice of ginger. This 

 pill is useful in bronchitis and cough generally. 



Bdjamrigdrika rasa? Take of Rasa sindura three parts, pre- 

 pared gold and copper one part each, realgar, orpiment and 



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