from chyle, flesh from blood, fat from flesh, bones from fat, marrow from bones, and lastly the semen is produced from marrow. The chyle produced from food and drink nourishes these constituent parts of the body. Living beings are produced from the rasa; hence sensible people should carefully preserve this rasa by conforming to the proper rules of diet and regimen."[1]
On the Collection of Drugs
(Chapter XXXVIII: Sūtrashānam)
37 classes of vegetable drugs are mentioned which chiefly constitute the Materia Medica. There is only one sloka in which the six metals viz., tin, lead, copper, silver, krishnaloha (iron) and gold, and their calces are recommended.
The Salts
Rock-salt, sea-salt, bit, sauvarchala, romaka and audbhid, &c. (see ante p. 29).
- ↑ The reader may compare the above theories on the Chemistry and Physiology of Digestion and Nutrition with those of Geber. Vide "Traité d'Alchimie Arabe," trad. pp. 201-3.
