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all, water sixty-four seera ; boil till the latter is reduced to 

 one-fourth and strain. Take of clarified butter, milk and the 

 juice of Asparagus racemosus (satamnli), four seera eaah ; and the 

 following substances in the form of a paste, namely, Tinospora 

 cordifolia ( guruchi ) , bamboo- manna, Withania sommfera 

 (asvagandhd), Hemidesmus Indicus (sdrivd), berries oalled kdkoli, 

 talbs oalled kshirakdkoli, pulse of Phaseolus trilobus (mugdni), and 

 of Glycine debilis (mashdni), Codogyne ovalis, (jivanti), and 

 liquorice root, one seer in all ; boil them together and prepare a 

 ghrita, /This preparation is given in facial paralysis, deafnees, 

 ioss of voice or indistinct speech, convulsions, hysteria, sciatica, 

 paralysis and other diseases of the nervous system. 



Mdsha taila} Take of goat's meat eight seers, water sixty* four 



fleers; boil together till the latter is reduced to sixteen seers. 



Take of the pulse of Phaseolus Roxburgh™ (mdsha), linseed, barlty 



foot of Barlcria Prionites (kurantaka), of Solanum Jacquinii, (hanta- 



kdri) t Tribulus terrestris ( gokshura ), bark of Calosanthes Indica 



( $ yvndka),jatdmdnsi root, seeds of Mucuna pruriens (Jcapikvachchhu) , 



•ach one seer, water sixty -four seers ; boil down to sixteen seers. 



Take of cotton seeds, seeds of Grotolaria juncea ( sana ), pulse of 



Volichoi unijlorus (kulattha), dried pulp of Ziziphus Jujuba {fo>la) % 



•aoh two seers, water sixty four seers ; boil down to sixteen seers. 



Take of ginger, long pepper, dill seeds, root of Bidnus communis 



(eranda), of Boerhaavia diffusa (punamavd), Pcederia fottida 



(prasdrani), Vanda Uoxburghii (rdsnd), Sida cordifolia (bereld), 



T inospora cordifolia ( gulancha ) and Picrorrhiza Kurroa ( hatuhi ) 



e ^al parts ; in all one seer, and reduce them to a paste. Boil 



the above mentioned decoctions and the paste with four seers of 



aasamum oil in the usual way. This oil is ruhbed externally in 

 «onvulaions, paralysis, wasting of limbs and other diseases of the 



o»rvou8 system. 



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