Part 72 - Recipes of certain medicines having no minerals in them

First recipe.

Roots of chitraka; shunthi, bira salt, bilva, and rock-salt arc to be taken in equal quantities and rubbed with water. Dose, ¼(?) of a tola, each, to be taken with hot water. This medicine cures grahani due to excess of vayu.

Second recipe.

Equal quantities of burnt shambuka shells and rock-salt arc to be mixed together and taken with honey. It cures chronic diarrhoea, however malignant. (Dose, ⅛ tola).

Third recipe: Sauvarchaladi powder.

Equal quantities of sauvarchala salt, jira, black jira, dhanya, shatapuspi, bhanga, jamani, pippali shunthi, and kernel of kapittha are to be mixed together and applied in grahani due to an abnormal excess of pitta. Dose, ½ a tola to be taken with, butter-milk at night. For pacification of aversion to food, this medicine is to be taken with buttermilk, mixed with honey and sugar. In grahani due to an excess of vayu and kapha, it is desirable to let the patient drink decoction of kutaja at night as an additional remedy.

Fourth recipe.

Equal quantities of roots of chitraka, jira and black jira taken with honey, or powdered trikatu, taken with curd cure chronic diarrhoea. The following pot-herbs are to be taken with diet:—changeri, jira, black jira, dugdhika, and dhanya. (Dose, ¼ tola).

Fifth recipe.

Equal quantities of musta, kutaja, patha, roots of chitraka, trikatu, ativisa, aconite, dhataki flower, exudation of shalmali, and kernel of stones of mangoes, mixed together, cure grahani (Dose, ¼ tola of the compound, to be taken with honey or curd or bntter-milk).