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Appendix II: Recipes Gemstone Medicines

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I'ses and indications: (i) Acts as stimulant for the uterine muscles.
(ii) Prevents abortion, (iii) Ecbylic and oxytocic.
MA'JUN KHUBS-UL HADID
Recipe
Processed Ferric oxide (khubs-ul-hadid muddabir)                50 grams
Emblica officinalis, dried (anda khttshk)                                 50 gram
s
Valeriana officinalis (balchar)                                                  50 grams
Terminalia belerica (baliera)                                                     50 grams
Piper longum (pi-pal kalanj                                                       50 grams
Anethum sowa seeds (tiikhin shabt, tuklnn soya)                  20 grams
Paederia foetida seeds (tukhtngandana)                                 20 grams
Plumbago zeylanicum (chita lakri)                                          50 grams
Zingiber officinale (south, zanjibil)                                         50 grams
Cyperus scariosus (s 'ad kofi)                                                    50 grams
Piper nigrum (jiljil-i-siyah)                                                       50 grams
Terminalia chebula, black variety (halila siyah)                      50 grams
Ghee                                                                                            50 grams
White sugar syrup (qiwam shakar sajaid)                             1 kilogram
s
+ 625 gram
Preparation: The Ferric oxide or iron rust is first heated on a
cooker fired by coal and quenched, when very hot, in vinegar or in an
infusion containing equal weights of Emblica officinalis, Terminalia
belerica and Terminalia chebula (ab triphala), the procedure is repeated
for seven days. The processed or treated iron oxide is added to the
sujuj of the dry ingredients which has been obtained by first grinding
and, second, by sieving them through 80-mesh, after the suftif has been
soaked in the ghee. The qiwam of the white sugar is heated, and. when
the desired viscosity has been attained, the sufnf is gradually added
during stirring, till the sujuj and the qiwarn mix well. The nui'jun is
collected in glass jar.
Dosage and administration: 3-5 g. in the morning with 250 ml. of
yoghurt.
i'ses and indications: (i) Styptic for bleeding piles, (ii) Stomachic.
(iii) Liver tonic, (iv) Digestive, (v) Appetizing.
MA'JUN KALAN
Recipe
Silver foil (waraq nuqra)                                                             8 grams
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