Pitta.

The bile of the buffalo, wild boar, goat, peacock and rohitaka fish (Cyprinus Rohita), is used in medicine, either singly or in combination under the designation of Pancha pitta or the five biles. Bile is considered laxative and is chiefly used in soaking powders intended for being made into pill-masses.

Udakamanjari rasa.2 Take of mercury, sulphur, calcined borax, and black pepper each one part; sugar and the bile of rohitaka fish, four parts each; rub them together for three days and make into six-grain pills. These are given with ginger juice in recent bilious remittent fever. If there is much heat of head, cold water should be applied to it. For other preparations containing bile, see under serpent poison, page 278.

Gorochanά, or the concretions found in the gall-blad der of the ox, are considered cooling, aromatic and useful in abortion and diseases supposed to be caused by evil spirits. Gorochanά is sometimes given to infants in small doses as a laxative, It enters into the composition of some medicines for skin diseases.