Treatment for fever (58): Sannipata-mrityunjaya rasa

Equal quantities of aconite, mercury, sulphur, biles of fish, peacock, goat, hog, and buffalo; orpiment, trikatu, seeds of banari, roots of apamaraga, roots, of chitraka, and croton-seeds are to be rubbed together with goat’s urine and made into pills, two raktis in weight each, to be taken with honey and juice of bhringaraja. It cures all sorts of fever, especially, that which is attended with a sensation of intense coldness and is due to an excess of the three doshas. This medicine is equally efficacious in cholera, visama fever, aikahika fever, dropsy, catarrh, ascites, jaundice, pinasa, indigestion, anemia, etc.

The patient should be covered, after taking this medicine, with a piece of thick cloth, and kept in a lonely place, not agitated by drafts of air currents. The patient is to be considered freed from disease, as soon as he will be found to roll on his bed, over and over again, with loss of consciousness, and experiences a heating sensation all over his body. He is then to be allowed to take diet, according to his own desire. Boiled rice with curd and cold water may, at that time, be given to him without any hesitation.