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Suvarna parpati. 1 Take of mercury eight tolas, gold one tola, 

 rub them together, then add sulphur eight tola and mix. Welt 

 the mixture over the fire in an iron ladle smeared with ghee, and 

 press the melted fluid between cow- dung balls enclosed in plan- 

 tain-leaves in the manner described under Rasa parpati, fo as to 

 make thin round diskt of it. This medicine is used like Rasa 

 parpati in chronic diarrhoea, and anasarca. Milk diet is enjoined, 

 and water and salt are prohibited. Dose grains two, gradually 

 increased to grains ten in the course of twenty-one days, to be 

 again gradually reduced to the original dose of two grains in 

 another three weeks. Another preparation of the sort called 

 Vijayaparpati contains diamond, pearls, silver, copper, and talc, 

 in addition to gold, sulphur and mercury. It is used in the same 

 cases as the Suvarna parpati above described. 



Gold is much used as an alterative tonic. Prepared gold in 

 doses of two grains daily with the addition of honey, ghee and 



emblic myrobalan, or root of Acorns Calamus ( vacha) is recom 

 mended to be taken for a lengthened period. 2 It is also given to 

 infants under an impression that it will impwrt strength and 

 beauty to their frames. The following composition is recom- 

 mended for them. Tike of powdered gold, root of Acorns 

 Calamus (vacha) and Aplotaxis auriculata (kushtha), chebulic 

 myrobalaiis, and leaves of Herpestes Mcmniera (brimhi) equal parts, 

 powder and mix. Dose two grains with honey and ghee. It is 



recommended to be given to feeble infants a few days after birth. 



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The principal alterative tonic of the Hindu Materia Medica is 

 the preparation popularly called Maharadhvaja. To prepare it, 



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