Rasamanjari 6

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6.1

Rasamañjarī, Chapter 6
The god risen from the ocean of milk, clothed in yellow, four-armed,
I continually praise Dhanvantari, the destroyer of diverse ailments

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Just as it was heard from the mouth of the guru and experienced, that mercury,
that mercury is indeed expounded here for the purpose of destroying disease

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Leaving aside the mercurial physician alone, who is endowed with gain, honour, and fame,
what physician would obtain even a cowrie with remedies of grasses and wood?

6.4

Whatever formulation has been proclaimed by the sages for whichever disease,
accompanied by that respective formulation the physician should employ mercury

6.5

One should not consume mercury or poisonous medicine in excess of the dosage;
having examined whether the digestive tract is bound by three humours, one should apply the dose

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<ratnagarbhapaṭolī>
Mercury, diamond, gold, silver, lead, iron, and copper
in equal parts when calcined are to be used; pearl, chalcopyrite, and coral,

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and conch shell in equal parts, each the same; having triturated for seven days with plumbago juice,
then having powdered it, filling a cowrie shell with it,

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and grinding borax with calotropis milk, one should seal the crucible,
and enclosing it in an earthenware vessel, one should cook it thoroughly in an elephant-pit

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Taking it out when self-cooled, one should make it into fine powder.
Taking all of it, one should grind it: seven impregnations of nirguṇḍī,

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seven with ginger juice, and twenty-one with plumbago
juices it should be impregnated, then dried; four guñjās are to be administered

6.11

It swiftly destroys consumptive disease, curable or incurable, without doubt;
one should administer it with long pepper, honey, ghee, and black pepper

6.12

In the group of eight great diseases, cough, fever, dyspnoea, and diarrhoea,
this Ratnagarbhapoṭalī should be employed with catalytic agents

6.13

<mṛgāṅkarasa>
Gold should be equal to the mercury; pearl should be twice as much;
sulphur equal to it, and borax a quarter part of the mercury

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Making all that into a ball, one should dry it with sour gruel,
and in a vessel filled with salt, one should cook it for four yāmas

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It should be known as that named Mṛgāṅka, the destroyer of royal diseases;
and the physician should administer four guñjās of it with black pepper,

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or the wise one should have it licked with ten long pepper fruits with honey.
One should generally administer a wholesome diet with very light meat for him,

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or one should administer cow curd, cow ghee, buttermilk, or goat's milk,
with cooked vegetable dishes prepared softly, not excessively alkaline, and without asafoetida,

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seasoned with cardamom, lime, and black pepper, which do not cause burning.
One should avoid eggplant, sesame oil, bilva, and bitter gourd

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One should avoid women from afar, and also abandon anger.
A creeper named tumbarikā: one should boil one pala of its root;

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combined with the three pungents, one should make [the patient] drink it for the alleviation of cough.
That which is named triśūlī: one should boil one pala of its root

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Combined with a little asafoetida, kākiṇī, leadwort, and sweet flag,
one should consume it with suitable food to alleviate all diseases.

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One should continually keep a pill made of the powdered leaf of cowhage with honey
in the mouth; it destroys cough and constipation.

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Goat's meat, goat's milk, goat's clarified butter with dry ginger,
tolerance through living with goats, and staying amidst goats destroys consumption.

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The strength of men is dependent on waste matter, and life is dependent on semen;
therefore, one should especially protect the waste matter and semen of a consumptive.

6.25

<Lokanātharasa>
One pala of powdered cowrie shell, one pala of mercury and sulphur [combined],
and one māṣa of borax: one should triturate them with lime juice.

6.26

One should incinerate it: this is called Lokeśvara, the supreme Lokanātha.
It conquers dermatosis and bleeding disorders, and reduces other diseases.

6.27

It bestows robust semen and provides supreme radiance and charm.
Who is other than Lokeśvara for men, emerged from the mouth of Śambhu?

6.28

<Lokeśvarapoṭalīrasa>
One should take one quarter part of gold with calx of mercury;
having added twice as much sulphur, one should triturate it with the juice of leadwort.

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And filling cowries [with it] and sealing them with borax,
one should deposit them, smear powder around them, and seal them inside an earthen vessel.

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Having dried it, one should incinerate it in the interior, having applied fire on the next day.
Having taken it out when cooled of its own accord and then powdered it, one should deposit it.

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This is called Lokeśvara; it increases semen and robust health.
And four guñjās of this, combined with long pepper and honey,

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Lokeśa, the bestower of all perfections, should be eaten with supreme devotion.
In emaciation of the body, weak digestive fire, and cough due to bile, this mercurial compound,

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combined with black pepper and clarified butter, is to be given for three days.
One should avoid salt during this time, and sleep with the legs straight.

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One should drink black pepper with clarified butter for up to twenty-one days.
Diet should be given as for Mṛgāṅka, and one should sleep with the legs straight.

Those who are dried out by irregular winds, those afflicted with the disease of consumption, those who have dermatosis, those struck with jaundice, those who are consumptive and unfortunate because of bad physicians' prescriptions,
those who are tormented by various fevers, or who have fallen into delirium due to giddiness, intoxication, and insanity—all of them become free of disease and have their pain destroyed by the use of this poṭalī.

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<Rājamṛgāṅkarasa>
Calx of mercury, three parts; gold calx, one part;
one part of calcined copper; realgar, sulphur, and yellow orpiment,

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two parts of each, purified, should be combined and powdered together.
With that, one should fill cowries, and having ground borax

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with goat's milk, one should seal their opening with it and seal them inside an earthen vessel.
Once dry, it should be baked in an elephant pit; one should powder it when cooled of its own accord.

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This Rājamṛgāṅka mercury, in a dose of four guñjās, removes phlegm.
In consumption arising from wind and phlegm, one should give a decoction with ten [parts] long pepper and honey, and nineteen [parts] black pepper
with clarified butter.

6.40

<Ratnagirirasa>
Purified mercury, equal sulphur, calcined gold, mica, and copper
should each be equal to the mercury; calcined iron should be half the mercury.

6.41

Calcined tourmaline should be half the iron. One should triturate it with the juices of false daisy;
it is to be cooked like parpaṭī mercury. Powdered, one should impregnate it separately

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with the juices of drumstick, Malabar nut, five-leaved chaste tree, sweet flag, soma, leadwort, and false daisy;
with yellow-berried nightshade, heart-leaved moonseed, sesbania, agati, water hyssop, and very bitter [plants];

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and having impregnated it with aloe juices, three times each with every juice,
sealing it, it should be cooked in a light pit, and extracted from an earthen oven.

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One should administer a māṣa of this mercurial compound in fresh fever.

6.45

Mixed with long pepper and coriander, one becomes free of fever within an hour.
This mercurial compound, named Ratnagiri, is a vehicle for therapeutic application.

6.46

<Hiṅguleśvararasa (?)
In a mortar, one should powder equal parts of long pepper, cinnabar, and aconite.
Two guñjās should be given with honey for the cure of fever due to wind.

6.47

<Śītabhañjīrasa>
Mercury, calamine, yellow orpiment, blue vitriol, borax, and sulphur,
all these in equal parts, purified, for one day with the juices of bitter gourd

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one should triturate. With that paste, one should smear the inside of a copper vessel
to the thickness of half a finger. One should cook it in an apparatus called a sand [bath]

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until grains of unhusked rice crack on its back.
Then, when very cool, the physician should collect it from the inside of the copper vessel.

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This is named Śītabhañjīrasa. One should powder it with an equal amount of black pepper.
One should consume one māṣa with a piece of betel leaf; it destroys fever
in three days: severe intermittent fever, whether quotidian, tertian, or quartan.

6.51

<Śītabhañjīrasa>
Mercury, cinnabar, and sulphur, and croton seed equal to the three [combined]:
having triturated them thoroughly with a decoction of red physic nut, this mercurial compound is declared a fever-remover.

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Then, one should administer two raktikās with fresh ginger juice;
it destroys very dreadful fresh fever in merely one yāma.

6.53

Sugar and curd-rice should be diligently given as diet.
Afterward, one should drink cold water; sugarcane juice is wholesome.
Named Śītabhañjīrasa, it destroys all fevers.

6.54

<Śītārirasa>
Mercury, borax, sulphur, and copper powder in equal parts each;
husked croton seed should be given, twice the amount of the mercury.

6.55

Rock salt, black pepper, ash of tamarind bark, and sugar:
each should be equal to the mercury. One should triturate it for a day with lime [juice].

6.56

Two guñjās with warm water removes fevers caused by wind and phlegm.
This mercurial compound, named Śītāri, is supreme in curing fever with chills.

6.57

<Jvararājarasa>
One part of the king of mercury, with half a part of pyrites;

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two parts of realgar, and three are prescribed of sulphur;
eighteen parts of yellow orpiment, five parts of copper;

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three parts of marking nut: one should powder all together in one place.
Flooding it with the milky sap of cactus spurge, in a firm earthen vessel,

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making a very firm seal, one should bake it for four yāmas.
Extracting it when cooled of its own accord, one should triturate it very firmly again.

6.61

And four guñjās of this one should administer with a piece of betel leaf.
This well-known Jvararāja destroys the eight types of fever.

6.62

Consumed in the morning, rice with buttermilk is wholesome diet.
Combined with a portion of blue vitriol, it averts quartan fever.

6.63

<Mahājvarāṅkuśarasa>
Mercury, sulphur, and aconite equal; thorn apple seed equal to the three [combined];
twice the powder of three pungents added to that powder: two guñjās are beneficial.

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Combined with pulp of citron and juices of fresh ginger, / it is named Mahājvarāṅkuśa, destroyer of the eight types of fever.

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Quotidian, tertian, quartan, / intermittent, and that arising from the three humours—it destroys all without doubt.

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Exercise, sexual intercourse, bathing, and walking about— / one freed from fever should not indulge in these until he becomes strong.

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<Prāṇeśvararasa>
Purified mercury, likewise sulphur, calcined mica along with aconite:

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taking them in equal parts, the wise man should triturate them with the juices of tālamūlī for three days. / With that he should fill a flask, seal it, and dry it.

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Having wrapped it with seven mud-smeared cloths, he should then dry it. / He should incinerate it with [a pit of] the capacity of a jar, and take it out when cool of itself.

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Taking it out from within the flask, he should then triturate it for a day. / Cumin, plumbago, asafoetida, svarjikā-alkali, and borax,

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bdellium, the five salts, barley alkali, ajwain, / black pepper, and long pepper—each in equal parts:

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he should impregnate it again with a decoction of these seven times in the sun. / Taken with betel leaf, five guñjās of this Lord of Mercury

6.73

should be given in acute, severe fever; afterwards one should drink warm water. / Named Prāṇeśvara Rasa, it removes the aggravation of sannipāta.

6.74

In fever with chills, [fever] preceded by burning, abdominal swellings, and colic born of the three humours, / one should give desired food and apply sandalwood paste.

6.75

The pacification of excessive heat will occur through conversation with young women and songs; / there is no doubt in this, and the man obtains health.

6.76

<Navajvarebhasiṃharasa>
Purified mercury, likewise sulphur, iron, copper, and lead, / black pepper, long pepper, and dry ginger—he should powder equal parts of these.

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Adding a half-part of aconite, he should triturate it for two days. / With ginger as a vehicle, the physician should give two guñjās.

6.78

In acute fever that is very terrible, in wind disease, and in chronic dysentery, / one should employ this Navajvarebhasiṃha for all diseases.

6.79

<Pañcānanajvarāṅkuśarasa>
Śiva's neck-ornament (aconite) along with black pepper, the blood of the enemy of Smara (cinnabar), twelve parts of copper, two parts of mica, one part of sulphur: / triturated in a mortar with calotropis juice in a dose of a single guñjā, this rasa named Pañcānana is prepared, breaking the pride of the elephant of fever.

6.80

And wholesome diet should be given: boiled rice with yoghurt and buttermilk, mixed with rock salt and together with sugar; / anointment with perfumes, drinking of cold water, milk, and auspicious pomegranate should be given.

6.81

<Pañcānanarasa>
Mercury, sulphur, plumbago, three pungents, nutgrass, aconite, the three myrobalans: / with double their amount of jaggery, one should take a pill measuring a guñjā. / It cures the eighteen skin diseases, wind-colic, abdominal disease, consumption, urinary disorders, and the like; for Pañcānana is celebrated in breaking the pride of the rutting elephant that is the army of diseases.

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<Mṛtasaṃjīvanīrasa>
Four parts of mleccha (copper), three of croton are considered; / two parts of borax, and one part of aconite.

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The best of physicians should triturate all that finely, dry, for one yāma. / It should be given with ginger juice, along with the three pungents, plumbago, and rock salt; / measuring two guñjās, it removes heat, this is certain.

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One should smear [the patient] with sandalwood combined with camphor.

6.85

Using a bell-metal vessel, the physician should revive the patient. / He should feed him rice from winter paddy with buttermilk, together with bael.

6.86

In most terrible sannipāta, in [diseases of] the three humours, in intermittent fever, / in rheumatoid arthritis, wind-colic, abdominal swellings, spleen disease, and ascites,

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in [fever] preceded by chills, [fever] preceded by burning, intermittent and continuous fever, / in sluggish digestive fire, and in wind disease, this Lord of Mercury is to be employed.

6.88

Named Mṛtasaṃjīvana, it is renowned in the ocean of mercury.

6.89

<Ravisundararasa>
Copper killed with two parts of orpiment, mercury, sulphur, and aconite should be equal; / and one should add double the seeds of croton. In the rays of the sun, for twenty-one times,

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having triturated the powder with neem juice, in a dose of a single guñjā combined with sugar, / this fever-goad named Ravisundara destroys the eight types of fevers completely.

6.91

<Sannipātabhairavarasa>
Copper, sulphur, mercury, white arsenic, black pepper, yellow myrobalan, / fish gall, and croton: triturated together in equal parts,

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four guñjās of this is superior in removing acute fever. / This fever-goad, Sannipātabhairava, is revealed.

6.93

<Bhasmeśvararasa>
There should be sixteen niṣkas of ash produced from wild cow-dung cakes; / and three niṣkas of black pepper, and one niṣka of aconite: one should powder them.

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This is named Bhasmeśvara, destroyer of sannipāta. / Measuring five guñjās, one should consume it with juice of fresh ginger.

6.95

<Pratāpalaṅkeśvararasa>
Having triturated powder of apāmārga root with the bark arising from plumbago root, / one should strain the liquid through a cloth.

6.96

With that, equal to the mercury, he should triturate sulphur, mica, cinnabar, aconite, / borax, and orpiment for seven days.

6.97

For three days he should impregnate it with muśalī tubers, protected in the sunlight. / Filling a crucible shaped like a cow's udder, he should cover it tightly.

6.98

Wrapping it with seven mud-smeared cloths, he should incinerate it lightly. / Equal to the mercury: iron, tin, silver, and copper,

6.99

pith of madhūka, nutgrass, reṇukā, bdellium, realgar, / and cavya should be in equal parts, and a half-part of purified aconite.

6.100

He should triturate all that in a mortar and impregnate it with aconite water / in the intense sun seven times, and triturate it for two ghaṭikās.

6.101

With a decoction of the three pungents, and with juice of thorn-apple, / with a decoction of the three myrobalans, and with juice of agati flowers,

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with water of barringtonia, and likewise with water of cannabis, / with a decoction of plumbago, and with juice of jvālāmukhī:

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it must be impregnated with each seven times, and ground in the same way he should impregnate it. / He should fumigate it with an equal part of aconite to the whole.

6.104

Having triturated it for a day, he should then preserve it within a flask. / One guñjā with plumbago decoction or with fresh ginger juice

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he should administer to the patient for the pacification of severe stupor and loss of memory. / Having scarified the palate with an instrument, he should rub it with fresh ginger juice.

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When the teeth do not open, then he should perform this procedure: / having consecrated [the water] with mantras, he should then douse [him] repeatedly with hundreds of jars of water.

6.107

When a desire for food arises in that patient, then / one should give rice with curd combined with sugar, and buttermilk with cumin.

6.108

If he desires a drink, one should then give a drink mixed with sugar. / If this is done, and there is still no relief from the fever born of mercury,

6.109

Apply a cool plaster of camphor and sandalwood juice. / Prepare a bed covered with a mattress, mallikā, jasmine, punnāga, and bakula flowers,

6.110

And anoint him who rests there repeatedly with sandalpastes; / through flirtatious gestures, emotional expressions, playful speech, glances, and restless eyes,

6.111

Through the pressure of plump and prominent breasts, embraces of passionate women, / singers [playing] charming sounds of the vīṇā and the like, which are nectar to the ears,

6.112

And through auspicious recitations of stories of ancient verses of sacred renown: / by these methods, supreme pacification of the fever takes place.

6.113

He should avoid sexual intercourse as long as he does not become strong. / In diseases of vāta and the like, one should administer [it] with rock salt, guggulu, and plumbago.

6.114

One should administer [it] with long pepper and honey in jaundice, wasting, and anaemia. / One should apply it in all diseases with the vehicle appropriate to each disease.

6.115

This is Pratāpalaṅkeśa, the destroyer of morbid combination of the three humours.

6.116

<Mahodadhirasa>
Mercury, sulphur, iron, aconite, cowrie shell, / copper, incinerated tin, and mica in equal parts;

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Three pungents, bay leaf, nutgrass, viḍaṅga, nāgakeśara, / reṇukā, āmalaka, and long pepper root—

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Having ground twice their quantity with care, / an impregnation should be given thereto with decoction of gajapippalī.

6.119

The dose is proclaimed to be a pill measuring the size of a chickpea. / It destroys dyspnoea, cough, haemorrhoids, and fistula-in-ano,

6.120

Cardiac pain, lateral thoracic pain, ear disease, and skull diseases; / it removes dysentery, the eight abdominal diseases, / the twenty urinary disorders, and the four kinds of urinary calculus.

6.121

There is no dietary restriction in eating or drinking, nor in cold wind, walking on a road, or sexual intercourse. / Delighting in actions as he pleases during this treatment, a man becomes fair like a heap of gold.

6.122

<Madodadhivaṭī>
Aconite and mercury, one part each; nutmeg and borax, two parts each; / black pepper, three parts; dry ginger, six parts; calcined cowrie, two parts;

6.123

Clove, five parts; having triturated all of it with care, / the pill named Mahodadhi kindles extinguished digestive fire.

6.124

<Unmattarasa>
Mercury and sulphur [triturated] with the juices born of dhattūra fruit / one should triturate for one day, and add an equal part of the three pungents.

6.125

This is the mercury preparation named Unmatta, the destroyer of morbid combination of the three humours. / What virtue is not practiced by him, and what worship does he not deserve, / who rescues an embodied soul drowning in the ocean of morbid combination of the three humours?

6.126

<Saṃjñākaraṇarasa>
Sweet flag, garlic, kaṭukā, rock salt, bṛhatī fruit, / rudrākṣa, purified honey, sea salt, and aconite—

6.127

These in equal parts one should impregnate with the milk of Calotropis procera. / One should impregnate it three times with fish bile, and then pulverize it.

6.128

Blowing [into the nose] is stated to be supreme in severe morbid combination of the three humours, / in predominance of phlegm, extreme wind, epilepsy, and chlorosis,

6.129

In diseases of the head, diseases of the ears, and diseases of the eyes, according to rule; / one should administer through both nostrils this supreme restorer of consciousness.

6.130

<Candraśekhararasa>
Purified mercury, equal sulphur, black pepper, and borax;

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Four times as much sugar is to be added; one should impregnate with fish bile. / One should triturate with it for three days; this is Candraśekhararasa.

6.132

Two guñjās should be given with juice of fresh ginger, and then cold water. / Rice with buttermilk and eggplant should be prescribed as the wholesome regimen.

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<Kanakasundararasa>
Cinnabar, black pepper, sulphur, long pepper, borax, aconite,

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And seeds of kanaka in equal parts; with cannabis juice / one should triturate for just one yāma, and make a pill measuring the size of a chickpea.

6.135

By ingestion, Kanakasundara mercury destroys dysentery; / it eradicates sluggish digestion, severe fever, and diarrhoea.

6.136

For those suffering from dysentery, buttermilk kindles digestion, is astringent, and light; / it is wholesome because its post-digestive effect is sweet, and it does not aggravate pitta.

6.137

<Rāmavāṇarasa>
Mercury and sulphur are each taken in the measure of one śāṇa;

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Cinnabar, borax, black pepper, and aconite— / all four of these drugs are stated to be two ṭaṅkas each.

6.139

Croton seeds are to be added to the measure of ten ṭaṅkas; / triturated with tamarind juice, a pill measuring one guñjā is made.

6.140

Taken with holy basil leaves, all intermittent fevers— / quotidian, tertian, quartan, and the fourth-day fever—

6.141

Fever with chills, burning, and the rest, it rapidly destroys. / Rice with milk and food consisting of rice with curd should be given as the wholesome regimen.

6.142

This is named Rāmavāṇarasa, the destroyer of all diseases.

6.143

<Candraprabhāvaṭī>
Calcined mercury, calcined copper, and calcined gold in equal parts; / one should add an equal amount of extract of Acacia catechu and silk-cotton tree gum.

6.144

One should triturate with juices extracted from the root of the silk-cotton tree for two praharas. / One should eat a pill measuring the size of a chickpea, [in the dose of] one niṣka together with cumin; / it certainly destroys diarrhoea arising from the three humours accompanied by fever.

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<Citrāmbararasa>
Purified mercury, calcined mica, and sulphur one should triturate in equal parts; / in an iron vessel smeared with ghee, one should cook [it] over mild fire for one yāma.

6.146

One should stir with an iron rod, and having taken it down, impregnate it / for three days with decoctions of cumin; a man should consume it for one month.

6.147

The mercurial medicine named Citrāmbara, with the appropriate vehicle, / pacifies dysentery accompanied by blood, colicky pain with undigested matter, and tenesmus.

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<Grahaṇīkapāṭarasa>
Silver, pearl, gold, and iron essence, one part each; / two parts sulphur, three parts mercury; one should triturate for a day

6.149

Thoroughly with fresh wood apple juice, then place it inside a deer horn. / One should incinerate it with a medium incinerator, then extract and triturate it

6.150

With juice of balā seven times, and three times with juice of apāmārga. / Lodhra, prativiṣā, nutgrass, dhātakī, indrayava, and guḍūcī—

6.151

There should be three impregnations with the fresh juice of each of these. / The mercurial medicine should be given in the measure of a māṣa with honey and black pepper.

6.152

It destroys all diarrhoeas and the five types of dysentery; / this is the mercurial preparation named Grahaṇīkapāṭa, and it kindles digestive fire.

6.153

<Grahaṇīkapāṭarasa>
Pearl, gold, mercury, sulphur, borax, mica, cowrie, and aconite in equal parts, / combined with an equal portion of conch powder to the whole, should be impregnated in a mortar with the juice of ativiṣā.

6.154

Having made it into a ball wrapped in a mud-smeared cloth, sealing it within a vessel, one should cook it for half a day. / When cooled completely on its own, this mercurial compound should be impregnated with the juices of dhattūra, plumbago, and muśalī,

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Rasamañjarī — Śālinātha, Sanskrit