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Appendix II: Recipes Gemstone Medicines

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the pills are coated with gold foil and kept in bottle.
Dosage and administration: One pill with the dawaul-itiisk motadil
sada
(5 g.) before breakfast.
Uses and indications: (i) Cardiac, cerebral and stomach tonic.
(ii) Maintains body heat, (iii) Tonic for general debility.
HABKHAS
Recipe
Al-ahmar
Calcined cornelian (kushta aqiq)
Calcined iron (kushta Jaulad)
Calcined silver (kushta nnqra)
Silver foil (chandi fee waraq)
Gold foil (sonay kc waraq)
Stryclinos nux vomica, treated (kuclda muddabir)
Crocus sativus (zafran)
Ambergris (ambar)
Musk (mushk)
Aqua Rosa damascena (arq gulab)
Ghee
6 grams
1 20 grams
1 8 grams
30 grams
1 2 grams
As required
1 2 grams
1 2 grams
1 0 grams
1 gram
300 ml.
5 grams
Preparation: First of all, saffron and silver foil are individually
triturated in rose water. Next, the first four ingredients and stryclinos
nux vomica are mixed and triturated. The ambar is molten in gluv
and mixed with sufnj of the five ingredients, followed by the addition
of the saffron-silver foil mixture. The musk, triturated in rose water,
is finally added and the mixture is retriturated. Afterwards, the final
mixture is kneaded in rose water, and pills of size No. 2 are prepared.
When dried, the pills are stored in bottle.
Dosage and administration: One pill in the morning with 250 ml.
of milk.
Uses and indications: (i) Nervine tonic, (ii) Aphrodisiac, (iii)
Cerebral and cardiac tonic, (iv) Stomachic, (v) Effective for blood
circulation, (vi) Appetizing, (vii) Tonic for aged persons.
HAB AMBAR MOMIAI
Recipe
Triturated pearls (manvarid)                                                    25 grams
Mineral bezoar fzehar mohra)                                                  25 grams
Calcined tin (kushta qalai)                                                        1 0 grams
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