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and stir with a ladle till intimately mixed. Dose, one to two tolas 

 in phthisis, cough with pain in the sides, hromoptysis and asthma. 



Vdsdchandanddi taila} Take of vdsaha plant, twelve seers and 

 a half, water sixty-four seers ; boil till reduced to one-fourth. 

 Take of lac eight seers, water sixty-four seers ; boil down to 

 sixteen seers. Take of red sandal wood, gulancha, root of 

 Cleroclendron Siphbnanthus ( bralimayashti ), the ten drugs balled 

 dasamtda and Solatium Jacquinii (nidzgdhikd), eaoh two seers 

 and a half, water sixty^four seers ; boil down to sixteen seers. 



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To those decoctions, add of whey and prepared sesamuin oil 

 sixteen seers eaoh and the following mbstanoes in the form of a 

 paste, namely, red sandal wood, liquorice, wood of Berberis 

 Asiatica, long pepper, black pepper, ginger, turmeric, pdchah 

 root, emblic myrobalans, iejapatra leaves, wood of Gedrus Deodara, 

 cinnamon, and cardamom, seeds called renuka, pouch of civet oat, 

 root of Withanza somnifera (ast gandhcl), Pcederza foetida 

 {prasdrani), Vanda Boxburghii (rdsnci), saileya (a sort of 

 lichen), zedoary root, and the frait of Aglaia Roxburghiana 

 (priangu ), eaoh eight tolas ; and boil them together in the usual 

 way. ' This oil is rubbed" on the body in affections of the ohest 

 and especially in phthisis. 



HTGROPHILA SPINOSA, T. Anders. Syn. Asteracantha 

 lo fifolia, Nees. Buellia longifoUa, Boxb. Sans, ^tar*, Kokildteha, 



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