Electuarium de Chalybe
Majun Faulad
Electuary of Steel

Tradition:

Unani

Source / Author:

Pharmacopoeia Persica (1681)

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

Latin Crocus sativus Piper nigrum Piper longum Cinnabaris Piper cubeba Pistacia lentiscus Pimpinella anisum Scincus Nardostachys jatamansi Myristica fragrans Eugenia caryophyllus Cinnamonum zeylanicum Santalum album Cuminum cyminum Nigella sativa Citrullus vulgaris Chicorium intybus Papaver somniferum Anacyclus pyrethrum Salvia hemotodes Centaurea behen Terminalia chebula (black) Corallum rubrum Succinum Margarita Apium graveolens Fraxinus excelsior Pistachio verum Mentha pulegium Datura stramonium Gentiana lutea Secundina Camela Zingiber officinalis Passer domesticus Gallus domesticus Sesamum indicum Thymus vulgaris Matricaria recutita Myristica fragrans Emblica officinalis Terminalia bellerica Amomum subulatum Lepidium sativum Trachyspemum ammi Cocos nucifera Asparagus officinale Cinnamonum cassia Carduus benedictus Nux Pinea Jugulans regia uncertain Orchis spp. Zingiber zerumbet Foeniculum vulgare Datura stramonium Papaver somniferum Aristolchia longa Scilla maritima Aristolchia rotunda Fumaria officinalis Aurum Argentum Saccharum Mel Ferro limatura Amount 5 drams ea. 2 1⁄2 drams ea. 50 of each 1/4 weight of all the rest weight of all the herbs 6 drams

* 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”.
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