A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.465

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113 Kampilla is a reddish powder covering the ripening fruits of Mallotus philippensis Muell.Arg. (see D. Joshi, 1991a: 123–124). 114 Compare Ca.Ka.12.87–97; A.h.Ka.6.25–29ab. 115 See: D. Joshi, IJHS 27, 2, 1992 (annotated translation of Rasaratnasamuccaya 11); Rasa-jalanidhi I, 311–320. 116 Solidification of not properly purified mercury is called haṭhabandha. 117 Solidification of properly purified mercury. 118 Mercury, mixed with metals, that sublimates on heating, reverts to its natural form, and does not solidify, is called ābhāsabaddha. 119 Solidification of mercury that has been mixed with improperly purified metals. 120 Mercury that assumes the consistence of butter by rubbing, while exposing it to the heat of the sun, is called piṣṭikābaddha. 121 Mercury that is solidified by combining it with purified and killed śaṅkha, śukti or varāṭa is called kṣārabaddha. 122 When the quantity of mercury is reduced again and again on repeated heating, it is called khoṭabaddha. 123 Mercury is poṭa- or parpaṭībaddha when molten kajjalī is made into thin flakes. 124 Mercury is kalkabaddha when it assumes the appearance of mud on heating. 125 A combination of mercury and sulphur that assumes the consistence of a collyrium (kajjalī) on grinding is called kajjalībaddha. 126 Mercury that during the killing process sublimates and leaves the crucible is called sajīvabaddha. 127 Mercury, killed after digesting mica and sulphur, is called nirjīva. 128 Mercury killed by means of puṭapāka after digesting one fourth its quantity of gold and made into a lump (piṣṭī) by rubbing it with an equal quantity of sulphur is nirbījabaddha. 129 Mercury subjected to jāraṇa with several kinds of piṣṭī and killed with six times its weight of sulphur is bījabaddha. 130 Mercury killed with diamonds, etc., and combined with an equal amount of mercury that has been killed in another way, is śṛṅkhalābaddha. 131 The solidification of mercury after combining it with metals subjected to bāhyadruti. 132 Killing mercury after the digestion of an equal amount of mica. 133 The same, with a double amount of mica. 134 The same, with four times the amount of mica. 135 The same, with six times the amount of mica. 136 Making mercury heatresistant by means of divyauṣadhis, but without jāraṇa with mica. 137 Solidification of mercury by heating it with gold or silver. 138 See D. Joshi (IJHS 27, 2, 1992), who describes nine varieties of jalūkābandha; this type of bandha is not for therapeutic purposes, but for stimulating female sexual pleasure. 139 The order of the diseases resembles that adopted in Aṣṭāṅgasamgraha and Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasamhitā. 140 Actually, the chapter on vidradhi, vṛddhi, gulma and śūla (chapter eighteen), also deals with kārśya, sthaulya and amlapitta. 141 Chapter twenty, on the treatment of visarpa, kuṣṭha and śvitra, also deals with kṛmiroga. 142 Chapter twenty-one is concerned with a number of vāta diseases, āmavāta, apasmāra, unmāda, vātarakta and pittaroga. 143 Chapter twenty-two is about the treatment of vandhyā, garbhiṇīroga, mūḍhagarbha, sūtikāroga and bālaroga.