Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.9

c8.9

§ 3. The Later Middle Age :— In this period probably falls the composition of numerous works, partly printed, on Rasa, Rasendra, metallic and particularly mercury preparations for internal and external use. The quicksilver cures all diseases, says Narahari¹, and it is also recommended especially for fever, diarrhoea, jaundice (*kāmalā*), diseases of the lungs etc., and later also for syphilis². The calcination of quicksilver and the pharmaceutical preparations thus obtained probably originated with the Arabs (see § 26). *Rasapradīpa, Rasāmṛta, Rasendracintāmaṇi* are already cited in *Bhāvaprakāśa*. *Rasacintāmaṇi, Rasadarpaṇa, Rasaratnapradīpa, Rasaratnāvalī, Rasarahasya, Rasarājahamsa, Rasasindhu, Rasārṇava, Rasālaṃkāra, Rasavātāra* are quoted in *Āyurvedasaukhya*. All these works must, therefore, have