Treatment for fever (75): Mrita-sanjibana rasa

Equal quantities of incinerated mercury, iron, trikatu, kankustha, realgar, orpiment mica, cinnabar, kumbhi, roots of chitraka, bhringaraja, marisha, tanduliaka (tandulaka), copper pyrites, and hastishundi; and purified mercury and sulphur, each equal in quantity to one fourth the weight of the foregoing materials combined—are to be rubbed together for three days with ginger juice and made into a lump. When dried, it is to be put upon an earthen basin and heated by the third kind of baluka-yantra. While thus heated, it is to be rubbed, over and over again, with the juice or decoction of bhanga, lime fruit mirgundi, and changed, some quantities of those very same juices or decoctions being put upon the lump, while heated. The substance is thus to be heated for fourteen days, after which it is to be nibbed with the juice of ginger, and dried. This medicine cures sannipatika and other fevers, soon. Dose, three raktis, each.