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Electuarium de Chalybe
Majun Faulad
Electuary of Steel
Majun Faulad
Electuary of Steel
Tradition:
Unani
Source / Author:
Pharmacopoeia Persica (1681)
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Herb Name
Saffron
Black Pepper Long Pepper Cinnabar prepared * Cubeb Mastic Aniseed Skink Spikenard Mace Clove Cinnamon White Sandalwood Cumin Nigella Melon seed Chicory seed White Poppy seed Pyrethrum Red Behen White Behen Black Myrobalan Red Coral prepared Amber prepared Pearl Celery seed Ash tree seed Pistachio Pennyroyal seed Datura seed ** Gentian Camel Placenta Ginger Sparrow Brain Chicken Brain Sesame seed Thyme (Greek) Camomile Nutmeg Emblic Myrobalan Belleric Myrobalan Greater Cardamon Garden Cress Ammi Coconut Asparagus seed Cassia Wood Blessed Thistle Pine nuts Walnut flower *** Convolvulus ceruleam indici Orchid Zerumbet Fennel seed Stramonium nuts **** Opium Long Birthwort Squill Round Birthwort Fumitory Gold leaf Silver leaf White Sugar Clarified Honey Steel filings calcined |
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* Cinnabar is washed with Lemon water
** Datura seed is dry-fried
*** Florum Nucum
**** Nucis Stramonia may mean the green fruit pods of Datura
Preparation:
Form an Electuary according to art. It is stirred weekly and used after 6 months.
Function:
Clears Damp, Settles Wind, Moves the Qi, Settles Wind, Strengthens the Kidneys
Use:
"suitable for the Elderly"
1. Colic
2. Twisting pain in the bowels
3. Epilepsy
4. Tremors
5. strengthens the stomach
6. Increases Virility
7. Lower Back pain
7. Spermatorrhea
8. Dripping Urine.
Dose:
1 drams
Cautions:
None noted
Modifications:
The source text sais it was invented by Indians. It is a "marvelous composition, and excels in innumerable virtues".
Nothing at the moment
Nothing at the moment
