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continue to give 20 dirham for three weeks. This increases the 

 appetite. 



If the above causes garmi} give daily tirphald (the three kinds of 

 myrobalan) . 



35. — On Giving Rat's Bane or Arsenic, etc. 



Take | oz. of each of the following : Indian aconite,^ white arsenic, 

 yellow arsenic, cinnabar,^ sang-reza,* cloves, dry ginger, borax, black 

 pepper, with 1^ ozs. of kath,^ and 10 lbs. of green ginger. First pound 

 the green ginger to extract its juice. Then crush the other ingredients 

 and cast them into a marble mortar with the juice of the green ginger, 

 and grind continually, night and day, for seven days, till the powder is 

 ground finer than antimony. Instead of the juice of the green ginger, 

 the juice of betel leaves can be substituted. The mortar should be 

 made of porphyry,^ or of some hard, stone. Make the mixture up into 

 pills the size of a gram-grain or small pea and set aside. 



Take 2 ozs. of coarse wheaten flour and make it into a cake, and 

 bake ; give one pill, powdered fine, concealed in the cake. Give in the 

 evening after the grain. Give three times in a week. If necessary one 

 pill can be given every morning early. 



36. — Another Receipt for Sara 



Mustard seed,^ ajwd,in,^ emblic myrobalan, dry ginger, long zedoary, 

 kdld namak, moringa bark,^ haherd}^ yank, black rock-salt and white 

 rock-salt ; ii take equal parts of each and pound roughly and separately. 

 Weigh again and then mix. Then take of sour curds (ddhi) three times 

 the weight of the powder; strain the curds through cloth, having 

 previously added a little water to it, and then mix the powder into it. 

 Cast into a matkd or porous earthen vessel, cover with a plate, and bury 

 in horse-dung. Remove after a week. Give for twenty days, 4 ozs. 

 daily, after the evening feed. This medicine acts as a tonic, cures 

 worms, and purifies the stomach from phlegm and gas. 



* Garml kamd, here hiddat kamd ; in a homan the signs are thirst, burning in 

 the chest, yellowness in the urine, and the urine being less than the normal 

 quantity. 



^ Bachndg, Indian aconite (Aconitvm ferox). 

 ' Shanjarf, cinnabar. 



* Sang^eza, gravel? 



' KcUh, the extract of catechu or cntch. 



* The hardest species of marble. 

 ^ Bd,i, Brassica nigra. 



* Ajwdyin, Ptychotis ajowan. 



' Sahaj'nd, Moringer pterygosperma. 

 '" Bctherd, Tenuinalia Bellerica. 

 " Sendhd, white rock-salt. 



