Part 6 - Incineration of the essence of rasaka

Essence of rasaka with haritala is to be placed over fire upon an earthen pot or an iron cauldron, with an equal quantity of purified haritala being put upon it, little by little, and turned all the while by means of an iron rod, until the whole thing is reduced to ashes. This powder is to be mixed with an equal quantity of incinerated kanta iron and is to be applied in doses of 8 raktis a day with the accompaniment of the decoction of triphala, kept overnight in a kanta iron pot, with three or four drops of oil extracted from tila, (sesamus) put upon it. It speedily cures the following diseases spermatorrhoea, pitta (an excess of the animal heat), consumption, anemia, dropsy, gulma, rakta-gulma of women, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, diabetes, all sorts of vaginal diseases, malaria, kala-azar, pain at the time of menstruation, bronchitis, asthma, and hiccough.