Rasendracudamani 13
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Rcūm 13 / Auspicious calx of noble-born, virtuous ruby, measuring one karṣa; / the calx of gold, mica, and copper, and of lodestone, separately,
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increased threefold, one should grind with an equal amount of sulphur; / one should calcine it with forest cow-dung cakes five times with care.
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In this way, one should calcine it with realgar, yellow orpiment, and galena. / With auspicious black sulphide of mercury made from equal amounts of sulphur and mercury,
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then, having taken that black sulphide of mercury diligently thereafter, / having melted it in an iron vessel with a mild fire of jujube wood,
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having thrown in the calces of ruby and the others, one should mix them there. / Then, having ground that black sulphide of mercury with ginger juice,
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having dried it thoroughly, powdered it, one should put it into a pleasant box. / Equal in dose to the three pungents and ghee, this is indeed the elixir of ruby and the rest.
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Licked together with the three pungents and ghee for six months by one eating wholesome food, / it destroys all diseases accompanied by old age and greying hair.
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Eating three times a day, one will live indeed a hundred years; / [it cures] all diseases arising from consumption and the like, through the respective vehicles for each disease.
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Ground with the juice of jayantī and killed with parrot's tail, / pearl measuring just one karṣa, twice as much gold calx,
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three times as much lodestone calx, four times as much essence of mica; / having added sulphur and borax, impregnated with ginger juice,
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one should calcine it twenty times; having melted and strained it through a cloth, / with the black sulphide of mercury made from mercury with sulphur equal to all,
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having melted it as before, one should toss in the calx of pearl and the others; / having mixed them, one should add there milk derived from a female goat.
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Dried and then powdered, one should place it in a glass flask. / Consumed in the measure of a valla together with long pepper and honey,
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according to the rules of rejuvenation therapy, in one year indeed it makes one / free from wrinkles and greying hair, devoid of decrepitude,
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endowed with [keen] hearing, teeth, and the rest, having a life of a hundred years, possessed of [sharp] vision, / endowed with the strength of an elephant in rut, victorious in dispute.
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Licked with honey, ghee, and sesame oil, along with long pepper and aśvagandhā, / it certainly destroys consumption disease within half a month.
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And with the vehicles for the respective diseases, it destroys all afflictions. / It indeed grants a son to a barren woman and destroys the disorders of childbirth.
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It is supremely wholesome for children, an aphrodisiac, excellent for longevity; / and it swiftly kills the snake settled in the womb of women.
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Combined with fresh butter and combined with white sugar candy, / it is celebrated as praiseworthy in all diseases of pregnant women.
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Four palas of calx of coral, an equal amount of killed silver, / twice as much copper, half the coral of pyrite,
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a thirtieth part of diamond, a sixteenth part of sapphire, / essence of mica equal to all, yellow orpiment equal to all—
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having ground it with citron juice for four days; / with black sulphide of mercury made from purified mercury equal to half of all, and sulphur twice that,
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having melted it thoroughly as before, having thrown in the calces of coral and the rest and mixed them,
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having properly quenched it in cow's ghee twelve years old, / sealed it in a pair of shallow earthen dishes smeared with ghee, one should steam it gently.
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Having powdered it, one should impregnate it seven times with juices of bhṛṅgarāja. / Taken with the three pungents and ghee, it cures fever in three days,
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and consumption in half a month, dysentery, anaemia, and jaundice, / severe jaundice, upward movement of wind, abdominal dropsy,
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urinary disease, increase of fat, wind-disease, phlegm-disease, / rectal disease, sluggish digestion, and urinary obstruction completely,
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venereal disease, disorders of barrenness, and skin diseases, / with the three pungents, ghee, and leadwort water as vehicles without exception.
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To an embodied being who suffers again and again from cholera, / this mercurial preparation should certainly be given for three months; / and in mucous-digestive disorders it should be given by physicians up to the limit of one year.
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{Emerald Rejuvenation Therapy}
One śāṇa of emerald ash, and half that amount of diamond ash,
two niṣkas each of calcined gold, copper, and lodestone,
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calcined iron ash, and calcined mercury: one should grind all together
and roast twenty times with roasts called kukkuṭa.
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Combined with the juice of amṛtā, realgar, sulphur, and orpiment,
one should roast it seven times along with the ten liquid extracts as a paste.
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Thus is perfected the potent rejuvenation therapy named emerald [therapy].
Taken with plumbago and ginger juice in the measure of a mustard seed,
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it [cures] all diseases born of the three bodily humours, even those originating from kapha and vāta,
which are incurable by all physicians and by crores of remedies;
it produces great hunger and digests food in an instant.
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{Topaz Rejuvenation Therapy}
Half a pala of auspicious ash derived from topaz,
half of that of yellow glass, half of that of copper ash,
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half that of copper of silver, half of that of gold,
half of that of diamond ash, and calcined mica equal to the whole;
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an equal amount of sunstone calcined with sulphur,
one should indeed roast ten times along with an equal amount of sulphur.
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And there are separate roastings with galena, orpiment, and pyrite.
Thus is described this perfected topaz rejuvenation therapy.
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It destroys all diseases such as consumption, supremely cures skin disease,
relieves the pain of rectal and abdominal swellings, promotes sons, and is an excellent aphrodisiac.
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And this rejuvenation therapy swiftly removes abdominal swellings of a woman;
it is declared an excellent stimulant of digestion, destroying jaundice and anemia;
what need is there of saying much here? It is the destroyer of all diseases.
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{Diamond Rejuvenation Therapy}
One karṣa of calcined diamond, and the same amount of metallic essence of earthworm;
then twice that of gold, and metallic essence of mica equal to the gold;
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the same amount of lodestone, all made floatable on water;
and an eighth part of mercury with respect to all is prescribed;
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an equal amount of shilajit with all: one should grind with the sour juice of chickpea.
Having made a fine pellet, one should dry it in the shade.
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Then indeed one should add metallic essence of earthworm equal to the sulphur;
it is roasted a hundred times, and a hundred times with pyrites,
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and twenty times with Calotropis leaves or [its] milky sap; then
coated with the powder of earthworm [essence] with abrus seeds, borax, and bee's wax,
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having rolled that pellet, one should smear it with this paste
to a thickness of half a finger, and then dry it in the fierce sun.
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One should place it in a sand bath and cook it for five days;
then, with the latex of Euphorbia antiquorum and Euphorbia antiquorum mixed with sulphur,
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having ground that pellet, one should roast it twenty times.
Then, having made it into cloth-sifted powder, one should place it inside a casket.
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One should consume this pleasing diamond rejuvenation therapy in the measure of a guñjā
for all various diseases, known and unknown.
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It must certainly be administered by a physician with the vehicle suitable for each respective disease.
There is no disease in this world that is not alleviated by it.
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Consumed in the manner of a rejuvenation therapy for three periods of forty-eight days,
it indeed brings about perfection of the body that causes wonder to the universe;
except for bilva alone, everything is declared wholesome here.
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{Sapphire Rejuvenation Therapy}
Ash made from sapphire, to the measure of one pala, and diamond,
gold, silver, lodestone, pyrite, and lapis lazuli—
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all these should be in equal parts, and copper equal to the whole;
all this should be taken calcined, combined with an equal amount of sulphur.
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One should grind with oil of Celastrus paniculatus for eight days;
applying sulphur above and below, one should roast it twenty times.
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Afterwards, one should impregnate it seven times with the juice of white muṇḍī.
Thus is perfected the potent, pleasing sapphire rejuvenation therapy.
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Consumed in the measure of just a guñjā, it destroys all diseases:
fever, anemia, consumption, cough, colic, piles, and abdominal swelling,
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enlargement of the abdomen, skin disease, and also the five types of dyspnea;
combined with each respective drug, it is the destroyer of each respective disease.
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{Hessonite Rejuvenation Therapy}
Hessonite, through the combination with sulphur and combination with the juice of lakuca,
having roasted ten times, becomes ash weighing one pala.
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Gold, silver, and lodestone, all calcined with herbal drugs,
are impregnated with sal ammoniac water in a fourth-by-fourth part penetration.
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Pyrite, roasted ten times with castor oil,
becomes an irrecoverable ash, superior in quality in every way.
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Into the liquefaction of the black sulphide of mercury made from half that amount of mercury and sulphur,
having thrown the previous three ashes and mixed them, one should take it out.
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Having pulverized it, one should impregnate it seven times with the juices of muṇḍikā;
then, having made a cloth-sifted powder, one should place it inside a casket.
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This indeed is the supremely excellent hessonite rejuvenation therapy;
it should be employed in all diseases with the vehicle suited to each respective disease.
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It produces keen digestive fire, is suitable for everyone, and causes delight;
it bestows the highest nourishment, and strength equal to the strength of Bhīma;
it is an excellent aphrodisiac, promotes longevity, is beneficial for the eyes, and removes oral diseases.
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{Cat's Eye Rejuvenation Therapy}
Cat's eye calcined with a paste of lodestone along with sulphur:
with eight śāṇas of that ash, and half of that of calcined gold,
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cast iron powder equal to both of them, and calcined silver equal to that,
and calcined vimala equal to all—all ground together,
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combined with the sap of Bombax ceiba, having made a pellet, one should dry it;
one should grind it with bitumen to a thickness of half a finger.
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Placed inside a sand bath, one should cook it gently for half a fortnight;
taking it out when cooled of itself, having ground it with juice of aloe vera root
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and dried it, then likewise with the water of Salvadora persica root,
and likewise with water of plumbago root, and with the sap of Capparis sepiaria root,
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and having dried and powdered it with water derived from Holoptelea integrifolia,
this cat's eye rejuvenation therapy is indeed a reviver of the dead.
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This rejuvenation therapy, in the measure of a guñjā, combined with fresh ginger juice,
or with plumbago water, should be given in comatose toxic fever.
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When lockjaw has occurred, however, one should carefully rub this mercury
in the measure of a valla on the two feet; then he will regain movement.
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When he has regained movement, one should pour cold, sweet water
measured at a hundred vessels upon his head; then a keen hunger arises.
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Whatever he asks for, that very desired thing should be given to him. / If life-span remains, that man lives happily.
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In diseases born of the three bodily humours, it should be given in the measure of a rice-grain, / combined with half a pala of sugar; otherwise, it kills the patient.
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In a disease arising from a single bodily humour, or likewise in one caused by an intertwined pair, / the cat's-eye elixir must indeed not be given by the physician.
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Whether worn or worshipped, endowed with good qualities and praised, / gemstones avert every calamity and constantly bestow what is desired at will.
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They constantly avert misfortune and all diseases born of bad deeds here [in this life]; / the elixirs produced from all gemstones prolong life and are beneficial.
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- Rasendracūḍāmaṇi — Somadeva (alchemist), Sanskrit