Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry
by Bhudeb Mookerjee | 1938 | 52,258 words | ISBN-10: 8170305829 | ISBN-13: 9788170305828
This fourth volume of the Rasa-jala-nidhi deals with Rasa-chikitsa-vidya, also known a the science of Iatrchemistry (chemical medicine), a major branch of Ayurveda. It contains Ayurvedic treatments for Fever and Diarrhea. The Rasa-jala-nidhi (“the ocean of Iatrochemistry, or, chemical medicine) is a compendium of Sanskrit verses dealing with ancie...
Treatment for fever (62): Vadavanala rasa
Equal quantities of lode-stone, mercury, orpiment, sulphur, condensed sea-foam, five salts, blue anjana, copper sulphate, silver, coral, cowri-shells, garnet, snail-shell (reduced to ashes in the same way as conch-shells), and shells of sea-oysters (reduced to ashes); and. mix with these mercury, twelve times as much as each of these. Rub them all together with the milks of snuhi and arka. Rub them again for three days with the decoction of roots of chitraka, and put the lump inside a puta, made of copper, the external surfaces of which are to be coated with mud, and dried. The puta is then to be heated by a labaka-puta. When cooled, the medicine is to be taken out, mixed with one fourth its quantity of aconite, subjected to bhavana with the decoction of roots of chitraka and heated for a. few minutes. (Dose, one rakti), to be taken with decoction of chitraka, powdered trikatu, and honey.
Conclusion:
This concludes ‘Treatment for fever (62): Vadavanala rasa’ included in Bhudeb Mookerjee Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory. The text includes treatments, recipes and remedies and is categorised as Rasa Shastra: an important branch of Ayurveda that specialises in medicinal/ herbal chemistry, alchemy and mineralogy, for the purpose of prolonging and preserving life.