Ghee, rock salt and sour fruit juice rubbed and kept ten days in a copper vessel, then mixed with jasmine flowers, vidanga, dry ginger, rock salt and long pepper and triturated with oil; said to calm netrapaka quickly.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- महाञ्जन
- Hindi
- महांजन
- English
- Mahanjana (great collyrium)
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत) | सर्पि: / वृत्त (घृत) | Not stated |
| Rock salt (saindhava)सेंधा नमक (सैंधव) | सैंधव / सैंधानमक | Not stated |
| Sour fruit juice (phalamla)खट्टे फलों का रस | फलाम्ल / अम्लफल के रस | Not stated |
| Jati (jasmine)चमेली (जाती) | जातिकुसुम / जाइर्का फूल | Not stated |
| Vidanga (false black pepper)वायविडंग (विडंग) | विडंगसार / वायबिंडग का सार | Not stated |
| Shunthi (dry ginger)सोंठ (शुण्ठी) | शुंठी | Not stated |
| Pippali (long pepper)पीपल (पिप्पली) | पिप्पलीका / पीपल | Not stated |
| Sesame oil (tila taila)तिल का तेल (तैल) | तैल | Not stated |
Preparation as described
Ghee, rock salt and sour fruit juice are rubbed in a copper vessel and left there for ten days; the other drugs are added and the whole is triturated with oil.
ताम्बे के बर्तन मंे डालकर रगडें अैर दस दिन उसी में पडे रहने दें।
How it is used
Applied as a collyrium.
इस अंजन का नाम महांजन है। इसे नेत्रपाक रोग में शीघ्र शमन करता है।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Akshipaka (suppuration of the eye)(नेत्रपाक / नेत्राप्रपाक)
वृत्त, सैंधानमक अम्लफल के रस इन को ताम्बे के बर्तन मंे डालकर रगडें अैर दस दिन उसी में पडे रहने दें। फिर उसमें जाइर्का फूल, वायबिंडग का सार, शुंठी, सैंधानमक, पीपल मिलाकर तैल से मर्दन करें, तो वह उत्तम अजंन बनता है।Source wording as converted, Chapter 15 · p. 317 · v. 271-272.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The ten days are the steeping time in the copper vessel, not a course of treatment.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Formulation
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 15
- Extraction tasks
- T15
- Record id
- formulation_mahanjana_p389