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skin diseases, nervous debility, etc. They are prepared for internal 

 use by being boiled with cow-dung and afterwards washed with 

 cold water. Equal parts of marking nuts, chebulic myrobalans 

 and sesamum seeds, are made into a confection with treacle and 

 administered in doses of forty to sixty grains. 1 



Amrita BhalMfaki? Take of ripe marking nuts divided into 

 halves, eight seers, boil them in thirty-two seers of water till the 

 latter is reduced to one-fourth and strain. Again boil the nuts 

 in sixteen seers of milk with the addition of four seers of clarified 

 butter, till reduced to a thick consistence. Then add sugar two 

 seers and set aside for seven days, when the preparation will be 

 ready for use. It is described as a powerful restorative tonic, 

 which increases the appetite, promotes nutrition and strength, 

 prolongs life and so forth. It is used in hemorrhoids and other 

 diseases of the rectum. Dose, about one to two scruples. Another 

 confection of marking nuts, made with the addition of a number 

 of aromatic substances, is recommended for use in skin diseases 



and leprosy. 



Marking nuts enter into the composition of some caustic 

 applications for warts and piles. They form an ingredient of a 

 liniment for rheumatic affections called Saindhavadyataila, for 

 which see Ginger. 



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