Treatment for fever (50): Mritotthapana rasa

Equal quantities of mercury, sulphur, realgar, aconite, cinnabar, lode-stone, mica, copper, iron, orpiment, and copper-pyrites arc to be rubbed together, for three days each with the juice of each of the following:—amlabetasa, jambira (lime fruit), changeri, nirgundi, and hasti-shundi. The compound is then to be heated by Bhudhara-yantra for twelve hours. When cooled, the medicine is to be rubbed for six hours with the decoction of chitraka roots Dose, six raktis, to be taken with honey, hingu, camphor, trikatu, and ginger juice. It cures sannipatika fever (i.e. fever due to an excess of the three doshas). Diet to be given with milk.