Part 3 - Incineration of silver

First process.

Mercury and purified silver leaves, cut into pieces, are to be rubbed together, with the juices of lakucha, and made into a lump which is to be put into a crucible with powdered sulphur put above and below the lump. The crucible is to be heated in a Baluka-yantra for one day by means of a steady fire. When cooled of itself, the lump is to be rubbed with haritala and a sour vegetable juice, and then subjected to puta for twelve times which will result in the incineration of the silver.

Second process.

Silver is to be rubbed with powdered makshika and juice of matulunga and subjected to puta. Performance of this process for thirty times will lead to the incineration of silver.

Third process.

Leaves of copper are to be smeared with a paste made of makshika, previously subjected to bhavana with the milk of snuhi. They are then to be subjected to puta resulting in the reduction of the leaves to such ashes as cannot be restored to their original condition.

Fourth process.

Four parts of purified silver leaves and one part of purified haritala are to be rubbed together with lime juice and dried. They are then to be confined within a blind crucible and subjected to puta by means of fire made of 30 pieces of cowdung cakes. Performance of this process for fourteen times will effect the incineration of the silver leaves.

Fifth process.

Leaves of silver are to be smeared with makshika and sulphur rubbed with the milk of arka. They are then to be dried and subjected to puta which will reduce the leaves to ashes

Sixth process.

Leaves of silver are incinerated, if they are smeared with a paste made of bhumi-amalaki, makshika, pippali, saindhava,and amla, all equal in quantity, and subjected to puta, the process being repeated as many times as necessary,

Seventh process.

Four parts of silver leaves are to be smeared with one part of incinerated tin (or the same quantity of sulphur and orpiment, mixed together in equal quantities), rubbed with lime juice. They are then to be dried and subjected to puta by means of fire made of 25 pieces of cowdung cakes. The process is to be performed for three times resulting in the incineration of the leaves. Powdered sulphur is to be put on all sides of the leaves every time they are subjected to puta.

Eighth process.

Mercury and sulphur, equal in quantity, and root of kakatunda are to be rubbed with buffalo’s milk and dissolved with water. The solution is to be rubbed with turmeric and made into a ball which is to be kept inside a heap of horse-dung for twenty one days. The leaves are then to be smeared with a paste made of the ball rubbed with some sour vegetable juice, and then subjected to puta for 20 times which will cause the reduction of the leaves to ashes.

Ninth process.

Silver leaves are to be made into a lump by means of mercury. This is then to be rubbed with haritala and sulphur by means of lime juice, and then Subjected to puta for two or three times. This will result in the incineration of silver.

Tenth process.

Three parts of silver leaves are to be smeared with one part of haritala, previously rubbed for three hours with some sour vegetable juice, and then subjected to puta, by means of thirty pieces of cowdung balls found dried in pasturage. The process is to be performed for fourteen times before the silver is reduced to ashes.

Ashes of silver are to be rubbed with purified haritala by means of a sour vegetable juice and then subjected to puta. The powder, thus prepared, cures all sorts of diseases.

Eleventh process.

Silver is incinerated, if immersed in a solution of four times its weight of haritala, dissolved with the juice of pomegranates, and subjected to Baraha-puta for three times.

Uses of incinerated silver (1)

Purified and incinerated silver cures phthisis, anaemia, udara-roga, piles, asthma, cough, loss of eyesight, and all sorts of diseases due to an abnormal excess of pitta, if it is taken every morning (in doses of one rakti a day) with an equal quantity of incinerated mica and copper, combined with powdered trikatu and triphala, equal in quantity to the three combined—all of these rubbed with sufficient quantity of clarified butter and honey.

Uses of incinerated silver (2)

Silver, duly purified and incinerated, cures inflammation, etc, if taken with sugar; it cures an abnormal excess of vayu and pitta, if taken with the triphala; it cures gonorrhea, if taken with the tri-sugandhi (guratwak, ela, and patraka); it cures gulma, if taken with kshara; it cures cough, and excess of phlegm, if taken with the juice of basaka and trikatu; it cures asthma, if taken with bhargi and shunthi; it cures consumption, if taken with shilajatu; it cures thinness, if taken with meat juice or milk; it cures enlargement of the spleen and the liver, if taken with triphala and pippali; it cures dropsy, if taken with punarnava; it cures anemia, if taken with oxidised iron of at least 60 years standing, duly purified and incinerated; it cures senile decay, and also increases beauty and appetite, if taken with clarified butter.