Treatment for fever (59): Sannipata-bhairava rasa

Equal quantities of mercury aconite, sulphur, orpiment, triphala, seeds of croton, roots of tribrit, gold, copper, lead, mica, iron, and copper pyrites are to be subjected to bhavana, for thirty times, with the decoction of the following combined, the whole thing being rubbed very well, and made into pills, one rakti in weight each:—alambusha, roots of white arjka suryavarta, black jira, kaka-jangha, kustha, shona, trikatu, bikankata, saudhyamani, water lily, nirgundi, rudra-jata, dhutura, danti, pippali, milk of arka, and langali, each equal in quantity. The total quantity of mercury to copper pyrites should be equal to the total quantity of alambusha (in?) langali. These latter-mentioned articles, viz. alambusha to langali, should be boiled with four times their total weight of water, which is to be reduced by boiling to one fourth its original quantity. The first named drugs, viz. mercury to copper pyrites, should, as stated above, be subjected to bhavana with this decoction. This process is to be repeated for thirty times, and the compound rubbed each time, carefully. This medicine cures all sorts of sannipatika fever.