Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 2: Minerals (uparasa)
by Bhudeb Mookerjee | 1938 | 28,803 words | ISBN-10: 8170305829 | ISBN-13: 9788170305828
This second volume of the Rasa-jala-nidhi deals with the purification, incineration and medicinal uses of various minerals (uparasa), as well as preventing faults due to misuse. It is continued in the third volume which deals with the various metals. The Rasa-jala-nidhi (“the ocean of Iatrochemistry, or, chemical medicine) is a compendium of Sansk...
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Part 1 - Characteristics of Tuttha (sulphate of copper, prepared in laboratory)
It is a compound of copper, and sulphur, prepared by those who know the process. It possesses to a certain extent the properties of copper and is moreover, of the following description:—It is pungent, alkaline, astringent, nauseating, light, destroyer of fat, purgative, cold, improver of eye-sight, pacifier of phlegm and animal heat, and efficacious in poison, stone disease, leprosy, itches, and worms.
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This concludes ‘Characteristics of Tuttha (sulphate of copper, prepared in laboratory)’ included in Bhudeb Mookerjee Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 2: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory. The text includes treatments, recipes and remedies and is categorised as Rasa Shastra: an important branch of Ayurveda that specialises in medicinal/ herbal chemistry, alchemy and mineralogy, for the purpose of prolonging and preserving life.