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Usage: In calces (Dihli kay Sahih Murakkabat), poultice (as aphrodisiac and abortifacient), confections and powders (syphilis), in ointments, and oils (Qarabadin-i-Kabir; Miftah al-Khazain), Also used in
hair-dye, for piles, and in pills (Qarabadin-e-Dhakai). Dhahab (Cold)
Temperament: Temperate.
Therapeutic Action: In agitation, atrabilious ailments, cephalic and
cardiac tonic; restorative for vital energy; exhilarant. Usage: In calces and aquas (Dihli kay Sahih Murakkabat),
exhilarant medicines, liniments, etc. (Qarabadin-e-Kabir), in ground form, salts, etc. (Miftah al-Khazain), collyrium, and hair-dye (Qarabadin-e-Dhakai). Fizzah (Silver)
Temperament: Hot and dry.
1 hempen tic Action: Anti-melancholic and exhilarant.
Usage: In foils, for preserves and electuaries, calces, hair-dyes
(liaj al-Amrad), confections (Qarabadin-e-Kabir), ground forms (Miftah al-Khazain), collyria (Qarabadin-e-Dhakai). Nuhas Abiyad (Copper)
Temperament: Hot and dry in the third degree.
Therapeutic Action: Attenuant, detersive; employed in cold
diseases, paralysis, facial paralysis and allied diseases; ocular tonic, useful in dropsy; abortifacient. Usage: In collyria (Qarabadin-e-Qadri), ointment and drops for the
ear, used in cold; calces (llaj al-Amrad); hair-dye (Qarabadin-e-Dhakai). Usrub (Lead)
'Temperament: Cold in the third degree and desiccative.
Therapeutic Action: Resolvent, detersive, useful in cankerous sores,
piles, ocular diseases, ailments of seminal vesicles, nervous diseases, piles, and chronic ulcers (Makhzan al-Adawiyyah). Usage: As ointment, pessary, poultice (Dihli kay Sahih Murakkabat;
Qarabadin-e-Kabir), collyria (llaj al-Amrad; Qarabaddin-e-Kabir, Qarabadin-e-Dhakai) and in salts (Miftah al-Khazain). Jainast (Coarse Blue Gem)
Temperament: Hot and dry (in the second degree).
'Therapeutic Action: Stimulant; cardiac and ocular tonic; antimelancholic; anti-phlogistic.
Usage: In collyria (Dihli kay Sahih Murakkabat), calces (llaj al-
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