Treatment for fever (68): Vishva-palaka rasa

Incinerated mercury is to be rubbed with, the five kinds of salts and three kinds of alkalis, and made into a lump Which is to be boiled in kanji mixed with hingu, shuthi, and mustard seeds, by means of a dola-yantra. The mercury is then to be rubbed with the juice of each of the following:—leaves of nirgundi, roots of chitra, bark of agnimantha, leaves of tilaparni, leaves of dhutura, bhringa-raja, ginger roots, kamata, aparajita, kaivarta mustaka, betel leaves and roots of eranda, each equal in quantity to the mercury. This is again to be subjected to bhavana with the biles of each of the following, in succession S—boar, goat, buffallo, rohita fish, and peacock- Pills are then to be made of the size of a black-pepper. Taken with adequate accompaniment, it cures sannipatika-fever. Curd and juice of sugarcane are to be taken by the patient, some time after he takes the medicine. Cooling actions increase the strength of the medicine.