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coriander, cumin seeds and rock salt, each one toL'i, and rub them 

 together with goat's milk. Then add mercury, sulphur and iron, 

 each two tolas, borax eight tolls and black pepper four tolas, all 

 in fine powder, mix and make into pills or boluses about eighteen 

 grains each. They are administered with goat's milk in chronic 

 bronchitis and various sorts of cough with copious expectoration. 

 Along with these pills a decoction made of gnlancJirt,.AdJintoda- 



(brahwayt/shfi) 



administered. 



) should be 



Borax enters into the composition of several prescription? for 

 diarrhoea, along with opium, such as the Qrahanikafdta rasa and 



Xrrpavallara rasa, for which see Opium. 



A mixture of equal parts of borax, long pepper and babervng 

 seeds is given for five days, at the menstrual periods for tie 

 purpose of preventing conception. 1 Tt is also used for procuring 

 abortion and inducing labour pains. Borax rubbed into a paste 

 with the root of Vallaris dirhotoma (bhadnivalh') is applied to 

 diseased nails. 



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LIME. 



Sans. n~W>fW SanTcJia bhatma. W Chnrna. 



Sf.vrral sorts of lime are user! in Hindu medicine. Thus we 

 ive lira* from limestone called chnrna. Then we have lime from 

 calcined cowries, conch-shells, bivalve-shells, and snail-shells, 

 called respectively, Kapardaka bhiauma, Sankha bhasma, 

 bhasma and Sambula hhasma. These shells ore purified by being 

 soaked in lemon juice, and are prepared for use by being calcined 

 witbin covered crucibles. Lime is used Internally in dyspepsia, 

 enlarged spleen and other enlargements in the abdomen, and 

 externally as a caustic. Lime enters into the composition of * 



great many prescriptions for different s>rts of dyspepsia, The 



folio wings are few examples : 



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