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Appendix II: Recipes Gemstone Medicines

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camphor, ground to fine particles, is also incorporated into it. The
mixture is triturated again, and, when it dries, it is sieved through a fine
muslin cloth and the ground antimony sulphide is finally incorporated
into it.
Administration: To be applied twice at night.
L'ses arid indications: (i) Tonic for the eye. (ii) Prophylactic for
ocular diseases, (iii) Helps the retention of good eye-sight till the old
age.
KUHLBAYAZ
Recipe
Roasted alum (phitkiri biryan)                                               100 grams
Zince oxide                                                                               100 grams
Ammonium chloride (naushadar)                                          100 grams
Preparation: The roasted alum and ammonium chloride are finely
ground and sieved through 100-mesh. The Zinc oxide is sieved through
a fine cloth, added to the alum-ammonium chloride mixture, and the
mixture re-ground and re-sieved through a fine cloth, after which
kuhl is preserved in glass jar.
Administration: To be applied to the eye in the morning and at
night.
l'ses and indications: Removes the opacity of the eye. pterygium,
and xerophthalmia.
KUHLROSHNAI
Recipe
Copper oxide (mis soakhta, tambajala Una)                           20 grams
Lake salt (namak samhhar)                                                       20 grams
Ammonium chloride (naushadar desi)                                       5 grams
Shadanj maghsul                                                                        20 grams
Silver oxide (aqlimiad-jizza)                                                     20 grams
Aloe barbadensis (ailwa)                                                           25 grams
Valeriana officinalis (balchar)                                                  25 grams
Armenian salt (bura-i-Armini)                                                  20 grains
Piper longum (pipal kalan)                                                       25 grams
Wild Indigo seed (tukhm nil jangali)                                        10 grams
Zingiber officinale (zanjibil, sonth)                                          10 grams
Cuttlefish bone (samandar jhag)                                               1 5 grams
Piper album (filfil-i-safaid)                                                        1 5 grams
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