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As a diuretic, it is prescribed in combination with other 

 medicines of its class. The following is an illustration. Take of 

 the roots of Asparagus racemosus, Saccharum spontaneum ( kdsa ), 

 Poa cynosuroides (kusa), Oryza saliva (variety called sdlidhdnya ) 

 and Saccharum officinarum ( iksliu), Batatus paniculatus ( viddri), 

 Scirpus Kijsoor (kaseruka), and Tribulus terrestris (gokshura) 



equal parts, and prepare a decoction in the usual way. This 

 deoootion is administered, with the addition of sugar and honey, 

 in scanty urine with heat and ardor urime. 1 The juice of this 

 drug taken with milk is useful in Gonorrhoea. 2 The chief use 

 of the drug however oonsists in the preparation of several 

 popular cooling and emollient medicated oils for external 

 application in disorders of the nervous system, rheumatic 

 affections and urinary diseases. 



Ndrdyana taila? popularly known as Madhyama ndrdyana taila 

 is made by taking of the bark of JEgU Marmelos ( vilva ), Premna 

 spimsa (agnimantha), Calosanthes Indica (syondka), S tereospcrmum 

 suaveolens (pdtald), Erythrina Indica (pdribhadra) Pvederia foetida 

 (prasdram) t Withania somnifcra (asvagandhd) , Solatium Jacquinii 

 (kantakdri) % Solatium Indicum (vrihati), Sida cordifolia (bala), Sida 



ifolia 



(danshtrd) 



diffusa (punarnavd), eaoh twenty tolas, water sixty-four seers, and 

 boiling down till reduced to one- fourth and straining. To the 



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