Rasadhyaya 172_211

172_211

Hereafter, he will explain the preparation of diamond for the digestive tract by three methods. / Then, from among those three methods, having placed into a four-footed iron mortar both diamond calx prepared by the first of any of the methods into the digestive tract, and mercury that has digested calamine essence, grinding with blue-vitriol salt flux, one should kindle a gentle fire at the lower part of the mortar. / Fire is kindled for as long as all the diamond calx is digested. / Then, when the diamond is digested, mercury becomes all-pervading, that is, it pervades both body and metals. / Thus ends the eighth [process], the calcination-digestion of diamond in the digestive tract into mercury that has digested calamine essence.