The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s7.t2.13

c4.s7.t2.13

*Vidyádhara rasa.*² Take of mercury, sulphur, prepared copper, iron pyrites, realgar and orpiment equal parts, rub them together and soak the mixture in a decoction of long pepper and in the milky juice of *Euphorbia nereifolia* (*vajri*). Make into pills about six grains each. These pills are given with honey in enlarged spleen and other enlargements of the abdominal viscera.