Treatment for fever (44): Sveda-shaityari rasa

Half a tola each of copper, shunthi, and root of arka plant, and four tolas of the five salts combined, are to be rubbed together and heated by puta. Then mix with it. mercury, sulphur, and incinerated conch shell, one tola in weight, each, and rub the whole thing with the juice of devadali, and subject it to bhavana for three times with the bile of peacock. Three raktis in weight of this medicine, taken with curd, puts a stop to a simultaneous perspiration and feeling of cold. Cold water, in torrents, is to be poured upon the patient, if. he feels heat after taking the medicine. Diet—clarified butter, rock salt, juice of mudga, sugar cane dates, and grapes.