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plumbago root, and tubers of Cyperus rotundm ( mustaka ), each 

 thirty -two tolas, and honey eight seers, treacle twelve and a half- 

 seers, water one hundred and twenty-eight seers. Powder the 

 solid ingredients and steep them in the honey and water in an 

 earthen jar smeared with ghee, for a month, or till complete 

 fermentation takes place. This iron-wine is said to be tonic and 

 stomachic, and useful in anremia, spleen, anasarca, ascites, 

 enlargements of the abdominal viscera, piles etc. 



AmalaMdya lauha. 1 Iron enters into the composition of several 

 medicines for hemorrhagic diseases, of such as the Khandakadya 

 lauha, Sudhdmdhi rasa, Amdlakndya lauha etc. We will here 

 transcribe the mode of preparing the last which is the simplest 

 and shortest. Take of emblic myrobalan and long pepper, each 

 one part, sugar two parts, prepared iron four parts, powder and 

 mix them together. Dose six to twelve grains in haemoptysis, 

 hematuria etc., with suitable adjuncts. 



Guda mandura? A preparation nearly similar to the above 

 and called Guda mandara is used in dyspepsia. It is composed 

 of old treacle, emblic and chebulic myrobalans one part each, and 

 iron rust three parts. These are rubbed together with honey and 

 ghee, and made into boluses about a drachm each. One of these is 

 taken in divided doses before, along with, and after meals, in 

 dyspepsia with pain after digestion. 



VidyddJiarubhra? Take of babmmg seeds, tubers of Qyjpty* 

 rotundns (must aha}, the three myrobalans, gulanclia, root of 



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