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SANSKRIT MATERIA MEDICA. 



Celsia Goromandeliana ( ko foist ma ), for one da} r , and then wash in 

 cold water. Take a small quantity, the weight of a mustard, 

 (about one- ninth of a grain), and administer within a luncp of 

 sugar in intermittent fever before the paroxysm comes on. Thus 

 taken for three dajs, it cures recent and chronic fevers, ague and 

 remittent fever. It is called Jvara brdhmdslra or the weapon 

 which infallibly destroys fever. 



Bdntbrahma rasa} Take of white arsenic, cinnabar, datura 

 seeds and long pepper, equal parts, and make into four-grain pills 

 with lemon juice. They are given with the juice of tuhi (leaves 

 of Ocirnum sanctum) in remittent fever with shivering, incoherent 

 speech or wandering, profuse perspiration or much heat of body, 

 difficult breathing, ebc. The dose of arsenic in this medicine is 

 very large and may induce unpleasant symptoms. 



Chandesvara rasa. 2 Take of mercury, sulphur, aconite, pre- 

 pared copper and white arsenic, equal parts, rub together with 

 the juice of fresh ginger for six hours, then soak in ginger- juice 

 and dry, successively for seven days. Afterwards soak in the 

 juice of Vztex negttndo ( nirgnndi ) for seven days, make into pills 

 about a grain each, and administer with the juice of fresh ginger. 

 Along with this medicine, inunction with oil, cold bathing and 

 nourishing animal food should be used. 





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