Treatment for fever (43): Pratapa-tapana rasa

Equal quantities of sulphur, cinnabar, orpiment, mercury, iron, borax, calamine (or zinc), sarjikshara, powdered manjistha and cinnabar (for the second time) are to be rubbed together with the juice of leaves of nirgundi. When dried, the compound is to be put into a blind crucible, and subjected to heat for twenty four hours by means of the third kind of baluka-yantra (see page 260, Vol. I) Take out the medicine when the cruicible is perfectly cooled by radiation of heat. Dose, one rakti, to be taken with ginger juice. It cures fever due to an excess of the three doshas. Diet—curd, mixed with boiled rice, or milk, or soup of goat’s meat.