Treatment for fever (36): Udaka-manjari rasa

One part each of mercury, sulphur, borax, and maricha, and four parts of sugar arc to be rubbed together with the bile of rohita fish and dried in the sun in day time and in open space at night. This process is to be repeated as many times as possible in course of three days (72 hours). Pills are then to be made, three raktis in weight, each. Accompaniment, honey and ginger-juice. If heat is felt after taking the medicine, the patient is to take boiled rice, saturated with cold water, butter-milk and egg-fruit (brinjal). In excess of pitta, pour cold water upon the head, or apply a piece of wet cloth upon it. This medicine cures rheumatic fever, very soon.