Part 9 - Treatment of Piles (8): Hiranya-sundara rasa

Equal quantities of mercury, copper pyrites, load-stone, mica, lead, gold, and incinerated essence of bhunaga (see page 236- vol II); and sulphur, equal in quantity to all the fore-going combined, are to be rubbed together, and heated by means of the Vidyadhara-yantra (see page 251. vol, I), in a fire, made of cowdung, found dried in pasturage. When cooled by radiation of heat, the contents of the vessel are to be taken out, and mixed with an equal quantity of powdered trikatu. This medicine cures piles, consumption, asthma, cough, indigestion, fever, pain in the ears, head, and teeth; pinasa (chronic catarrh), enlargement of spleen, pain in the heart, malignant gout, partial paralysis, titanus, paralysis with, tremor, apoplexy, and all sorts of chronic fever. Dose, one rakti each, to be taken with honey or honey and sandle paste only in fever due to pitta; with powdered pippali in fever due to phlegm, with butter milk in diseases due to vayu and kapha; with clarified butter in diseases due to vayu and pitta; with ginger juice in diseases due to kapha, and pitta; with leaves of nirgundi in diseases due to the three dosas; with triphala in colic and chronic fever; with ginger juice in indigestion, the decoction of khadira and bola in catarrah and headache; with the soup of bird’s meat in apoplexy and diseases due to an excess of kapha and vayu; with milk in partial paralysis, titanus, and pinasa (chronic catarrh); with clarified butter and powdered maricha in anemia, cough due to consumption, and jaundice, with ajamoda and biranga in colic in the navel, and indigestion, with ripe banana fruit in loss of appetite and fever which makes the patients body coarse and dry; and with bola in sciatica affecting only one-half of the waist.