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}fnmordica dinica (pat aid) 9 ginger and red sandal wood, each 

 quarter of a tola, water half a seer, boil till reduced to one-fourth. 

 Thia decoction is given with the addition of honey and long 

 pepper in fever supposed to be caused by deranged phlegm and 

 bile and attended with vomiting, nausea, thirst and lassitude. 



The fresh juice of the leaves is given with salt in intestinal 

 worms, and with honey in jaundice and skin diseases. The juice 

 of nim leaves and of emblic myrobalans, quarter of a tola each, 

 are recommended to be given with the addition of clarified butter 

 in prurigo, boils and urticaria. 1 Nim enters into the composition 

 of several compound preparations used in skin diseases, such as the 

 Pancha tilia ghrifa, Pancha nimba gudikd, Pancha Jcas7idya 9 etc. 



Pancha tiki a ghrita. 2 Take of nim bark, leaves of Momordica 

 dioica (patala) 9 Solatium Jacquinil (Jcantakuri) 9 gulanclia, and 

 bark of Adhatoda vasica (vcUdka), each eighty tolas, and boil them 

 in sixty-four seers of water till it is reduced to one-fourth. To the 

 strained decoction, add four seers of clarified butter and a seer of 

 the three myrobalans in the form of a paste and prepare a ghrita 

 in the usual way. This preparation is given in doses of three 

 to six drachms in chronic skin diseases. 



As an external application to ulcers and skin diseases, nim 

 leaves are used in a variety of forms such as pouUioe, wash, oint- 

 ment and liniment. 3 A poultice made of equal parts of nim leaves 



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