The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s6.33

c4.s6.33

*Rasa parpati.*⁴ This is prepared by melting together a mixture of equal parts of sulphur and mercury in an iron ladle, smeared with ghee (clarified butter). The melted fluid is poured on a piece of plantain leaf, placed on a ball of cowdung. It is then pressed by another ball of cowdung, enclosed in plantain leaf. When cool, the black sulphide of mercury is obtained in the shape of round disks. It is much used alone, or with the addition of other medicines, in chronic diarrhœa. Other varieties of *Parpati* or mercurial preparations in shape of disks are prepared with the addition of iron, gold, copper etc, and used in this complaint, as for example, *Svarna parpati*, *Panchámrita parpati* etc. The preparation of the former will be described under the head gold. The latter is thus prepared.