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Appendix II: Recipes Gemstone Medicines

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Coral root (bussud ah mar)
Mineral bezoar (zehar mohra)
Corallium rubrum (shakh-i-marjan, munga)
Red cornelian (aqiq surkh)
Turquoise (firoza)
Vateria indica (kahmba-i-shamai)
Lapis lazuli (lajward)
Pearls (marwarid, nioti)
Ruby (yaqttt surkh)
Green agage (yashb-i-sabz)
Silver foil (warq nnqra, chandi kc waraq)
Gold foil (warq tila, sonay ke waraq)
Silk cocoon dust (abraisham muqahraz)
Myrstica fragrans (jaiphal)
Delphinium denudatun (jadwar)
Elettaria cardamomum grains (dana ilaichi khurd)
Doronicum hookeri (darunaj-i-aqrabi)
Aquilaria agallocha (agar)
Cocos nucifera fruit (naryal daryai)
Crocus sativus (zafrau)
Ambergris (ambar)
Musk (muslik)
Aqua Rosa damascena (arq gulab)
Ghee
10 grams
5  grams
10 grams
10 grams
6 grams
5 grams
5 grams
5 grams
8 grams
16 grams
500 milligrams
As required
10 grams
5 grams
5 grams
10 grams
5 grams
5 grams
5 grams
12 grams
5 grams
5 grams
20 ml.
30 ml.
Preparation: The precious stones and pearls are individually triturated and, after sieving through 100-mesh, retriturated. The other
dried medicinal ingredients are triturated in a mortar separately, and,
after effecting an admixture, sieved through 80-mesh. Coconut, made
into sawdust with a file, is sieved through 60-mesh and triturated with
these stones-pearl mixture. The silver foil is also triturated in a mortar
containing some rose water till a concentrated substance is obtained.
The ground silver foil is now added to this stone mixture and triturated
again. Last of all, the ambar molten in ghee and saffron are triturated
individually in rose water and after adding the precious stone mixture
retriturated till a uniform mixture is obtained. This mixture is now
kneaded in rose water and pills of size No. 2 are prepared. On drying,
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