The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s4.4

c6.s4.4

*Suchiká bharana rasa.*¹ Take of mercury, sulphur, prepared tin, aconite and cobra poison, equal parts, mix them together and soak the mixed powder in the bile of rohitaka fish (*Cyprinus Rohita*), wild boar, peacock, buffalo and goat successively and make into a pill-mass. This medicine is administered in doses that can be taken up by the point of a needle, hence it is called *suchikábharana*. It is given in remittent fever with cerebral complications.