[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Alchemy and Iatrochemistry](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa) › [Metallurgical alchemy and transmutation into gold](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada) › [Rasādhyāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt) › 169\_206 # Rasadhyaya 169\_206 English (machine translation) 169\_206 - **Language:** English ### [169\_206](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.169_206) Having placed into a four-footed iron mortar calamine essence and mercury that has digested realgar essence, sixty-four times less than that, grinding it with blue-vitriol salt flux, one should kindle a gentle fire below. / And when this calamine essence is digested, the same is to be added again in a sixty-fourth part. / Adding it repeatedly in this way, calamine essence eight times the mercury is to be calcined and digested. / Then the mercury becomes unctuous, or it now digests diamond through the digestive tract upwards. / Thus ends the seventh \[process\], the calcination-digestion of calamine essence into that \[mercury\] which has digested realgar essence. - [Previous: 169\_205](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.169_205) - [Next: 170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.170) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.169_206](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.169_206) · Pramāṇa