Take flowers of Bugloss 5 scruples, rose leaves 6 drachms, cloves
13 scruples, Paan 4 ounces, distilled water of Bugloss two pounds,
rose water 6 pounds: distil, and give as a dose from one to four
drachms. Another: take of cinnamon 13 scruples, Indian Spikenard and
Galangal, each 14 1/2 scruples; Bugloss, Soad Kufah, and dried mint,
each 19 scruples; rose leaves and cloves each 24 scruples; anise seed
(Nancha), and another kind called Rajiana, and sweet-scented flag
of Toorkistan, each 19 scruples; Paan 50 leaves or more, good rose
water 15 pounds: distil. The dose to be regulated by the temperament
of the patient.
Another: take of Indian leaf (Tezpat), 1/2 a pound; cloves, Indian
Spikenard, and anise seed (Nancha), each 4 ounces, good Paan 200
leaves; bruise all the ingredients, and let them remain in infusion
for 24 hours in 20 pounds of water, then draw off by distillation 14
pounds: the dose will be from 8 to 10 scruples given after meals.
Another: take of cloves, Oodghoorkee, each 13 scruples; reduce both to
a coarse powder; flowers of Bugloss, raspings of white Sandal wood,
each 5 1/2 scruples; Bugloss, rose leaves and Indian leaf, each 4
ounces; white Paan 100 leaves, rose water 8 pounds, distilled anise
seed water 4 pounds; infuse 24 hours in the heated liquids, and draw
off by distillation 8 pounds.
111 Pariss Peepul.--Called also Palass Peepul, (Hibiscus populneoides,
Roxb.)
112 Para, or Parud, (as it is called in Sanscrit,) Mercury. It
is hot, gives strength to the eyesight, is useful in Juzam, and is
vermifuge. A. Zeebuck. P. Seemab. It is very generally used throughout
India, in many ways, both in its native and prepared state; but in
the latter we ought to be very cautious, for it is seldom sufficiently
killed, or removed from its native state, in which it is a dangerous
drug. One grain or two grains, or even a little more, is taken for
a dose, and in some cases with success. Cups are also made of it,
from which milk is drank; they possess this virtue, that a greater
quantity of milk may be taken in this way than in any other. It is
said, that if a little Mercury be tied up in a cloth, and boiled in
milk, that the milk will have an aphrodisiac property. Should any one
have taken live Mercury, and the result be, that he is attacked with
Juzam, or other leprous affection, let him take the whole of an Indigo
plant, and cutting it in small pieces, let it be boiled in a large
quantity of water; then straining it, drink a cupful of the water
very frequently, till all is taken, and till then eat no food. All
the Mercury will in the course of the day be evacuated per urethra,
and if the whole does not make its escape the first day, the treatment
must be repeated. If the urine be received into a brass vessel, or
any other with a polished surface, the Mercury will be detected; many
people having been in this predicament, have followed this advice,
and found the result to be as I have stated it.
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