The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c6.s7.17

c6.s7.17

*Udakamanjari rasa*.² Take of mercury, sulphur, calcined borax, and black pepper each one part; sugar and the bile of *rohitaka* fish, four parts each; rub them together for three days and make into six-grain pills. These are given with ginger juice in recent bilious remittent fever. If there is much heat of head, cold water should be applied to it. For other preparations containing bile, see under serpent poison, page 278.