cream or butter, if employed as an aphrodisiac.
I'ses and indications: (i) Bronchodilator and anti-asthmatic, (ii)
Tonic for general debility, (ii) Aphrodisiac.
KUSHTA BUSUD
Recipe
Coral root (bttsud ah mar)
250 grams
Aloe barbadensis leaf juice (ab ghaikwar) 125 grams
Cow-dung cakes (uplas)
15 kilograms
Preparation: The coral roots are triturated to fine grains, and
pounded in the Aloe barbadensis latex in a mortar, after which 19 g.
lozenges are made out. These are heated and dried in a pyrex flask or
according to the gil hikmat method, followed by lowering in a pit
containing the cow-dung cakes which are set on fire. When the cowdung cakes are burnt out, the knshta is taken out of the earthenware
or pyrex flask. The knshta is white and, on sieving, is stocked in bottle.
Dosage and administration: 125 mg. or 2 tablets with 5 g. of
Khamira gao.:aban ambari.
L'ses and indications: (i) Useful in catarrh, persistent cough and
cold, and asthma, (ii) Also useful in leucorrhoea and haemoptysis.
KUSHTAPARA
Recipe
Purified mercury (para mnsaffa)
60 grams
Purified lead (qal'ai mnsaffa)
60 grams
Litsea chinensis, finely ground (meda lakri saida) 180 grams
Symplocos racemosa, finely ground (lodh pathani saida) 60 grams
Cow-dung cakes (uplas)
1 0 kilograms
Large cow-dung cakes (of two kg. each)
4 Nos.
Preparation: The lead is put in an iron pan and heated on live-coal.
When the lead melts, the mercury is added to it, after which the pan is
taken off the fire immediately and poured on clean floor. An amalgam
of the two metals will have formed. This amalgam is broken off into
pieces and the Litsea chinensis and Symplocos racemosa are ground,
sieved, and made into snfuj, after which the sufuf is divided into four
portions. Cut of the four large cow-dung cakes two portions of the
sufuf are spread out over two of these on which half pieces of the
amalgam are laid out, these being covered with the sufuf. Two cowdung cakes are now placed over these and tied to the two cow-dung
