Part 52 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (24): Shighra-prabhava rasa

Equal quantities of mercury, sulphur, mica, steel, orpiment, realgar, sauviranjana, and bimala are to be rubbed together and fried with a little of tila oil. The compound is then to be mixed with the powder of each of the following, each half in quantity of mercury:—roots of pippali, jira, roots of chitraka, jamani, musta, aconite, green mango fruits, green bilva fruits cut into pieces and dried, and exudations of shalmali. The compound is then to be subjected to bhavana for seven times, with the decoction of pancha-kola, and for ten times with the decoction of bark of shyonaka. This medicine, taken with the decoction of shunthi and musta, in doses of twelve raktis a day, cures grahani, diarrhoea, flatulence, aversion to food, rheumatism, weakness of the digesting heat, movement of the bowels, and hiccough.