The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c4.s9.4

c4.s9.4

*Jayamangala rasa.*¹ Take of mercury obtained by sublimation, of cinnabar, sulphur, borax, prepared copper, tin and iron pyrites, rock-salt, and black pepper, prepared iron and silver, each one part, prepared gold two parts, powder them well, mix and soak the mixture three times respectively in the juice of datura leaves, and leaves of *Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis* (*sepháliká*), in the decoction of the ten roots, called dasamula, and of chiretta. Divide the mass into four-grain pills. They are taken with cumin-seed powder and honey. This medicine is used in old chronic fevers of all sorts and is said to be a powerful tonic and alterative, that may be administered with suitable adjuncts in many diseases.