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76 SANSKRIT MATEK1A MEt>ICA. 



calcined conch-shell and couries, sulphur, ginger, long pepper and 

 black pepper, the three myrobalans, baberang seeds, the five salts, 

 namely, rock, sun-dried sea, black, sonchdl and Sambar Lake salts, 

 Chavica officinanim (chavika) y long pepper root, havusa (an aromatic 

 substance), Acorns Calamus (vacha), Curcuma zedoaria, (8ati) $ 

 Stephania Jieniandifolia (pothd), Finns deodara, cardamoms, seeos 



of Argyreia spec-torn (vridhya daraka) each two tolas, rub together 



with the juice or decoction of chebulic myrobalans and make into 

 ten-grain pills. They are given in hydrocele and elephantiasis oi 

 the scrotum. The remark that, when a disease lias a long list of 

 drugs for curing it, one may take it for an incurable one, is well 

 fexemplified in this medicine for elephantiasis of the scrotum. 



MICA OK TALC 



Sans. %p3 y Abhra. 



Four varieties of talc are described by Sanskrit writers, 

 namely, white, red, yellow and black. Of these the white variety 

 is nsed as a substitute for glass in making lanterns etc., and the 

 black variety called vajrdbhra is used in medicine. It is of a 

 black colour, hard and heavy, and generally known by the name 

 of krishndbhra or shedbhra. 



Talc is purified in the following manner. It is first heated 

 and washed in milk. The plates, are then separated and soaked 

 in the juice of Amaranthus polygamus {tandulv ) and kdvjika 

 for eight days. Talc thus purified is reduced to powder by being 

 rubbed with paddy within a thick piece of cloth, when the 

 powdered talc passes through the pores of tho cloth in fine 

 particles and is collected for use. Talc, thus reduced to powder, 

 is called dkdnydbhraka. It is prepared for medicinal use by being 





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