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Appendix II: Recipes Gemstone Medicines

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Piper nigrum (filfil-i-siyah)
Acacia arabica gum (gond kikar)
Zingiber zerumber (narkachur)
Terminalia chebula, black variety (halila siyah)
White sugar (qiwam Shakar safaid)
Liquid paraffin (sham'in)
100 grams
225 grams
100 grams
100 grams
300 grams
10 ml.
Preparation: All the ingredients, sieved through 80-mesh, are made
into suftif, followed by the addition of the white sugar to the former,
drying in the sun after sifting through 16-mesh, and re-sieving through
20-mesh. The liquid paraffin and soapstone are now added to the
daiva from which tablets of size No. 4 are machined (each tablet=
575 nig.); these are stocked in glass jar.
Dosage and administration: 2 tablets after meals twice a day.
i'ses and indications: (i) Prescribed for liver ailments particularly
as antiphlogistic, (ii) Appetizing, (iii) Digestive and carminative.
KUHL (COLLYRIUMS)
KUHL-UL-JAWAHAR
Recipe
Coral root (marjan)                                                                    12 grams
Ruby (yaqitt surkh)                                                                     5 grams
Silver foil (waraq nuqra)                                                           10 grams
Antimony sulphide, ground (surma siyah saida)                    50 grams
Silver oxide (aqlimia-i-fizza, rnpa muklii)                               1 2 grams
Copper oxide (tubal mis soakhta)                                            12 grams
Cround Oyster shell (sadaf sadiq, sadaf marwarid)                1 2 grams
Cornelian (aqiq)                                                                         12 grams
Terminalia chebula peel (poast halil zard)                               12 grams
Cinnamomum cassia (saza'\ Hindi)                                              5 grams
Aloe barbadensis (ailwa)                                                           12 grams
Pure camphor (kafur bhhn seni)                                                 5 grams
Coptis teeta (mamiran chini)                                                    12 grams
Crocus sativus (zafran saida)                                                       2 grams
Aqua Rosa damascena (arqgnlab)                                                75 ml.
Preparation: The dry ingredients are ground, sieved through 100-
mesh, and made into sufuj. The precious stones are finely ground,
mixed with the sufuj in small lots and the mixture triturated in a
mortar in aqua Rosa damascena. The saffron, triturated in aqua Rosa
damascena is added to the sufuj and precious stones mixture. The
silver foil, separately ground, is added to the above mixture. The
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