Treatment for fever (78): Parpatika rasa

One tola each of mercury and sulphur are to be rubbed together to form kajjali or black powder, which is to be rubbed with water and made into a lump. When dried, this lump is to be put inside a new earthen vessel, the mouth of which is to be covered with a copper leaf, the joint being closed very carefully. The vessel is then to be heated by means of the third kind of baluka-yantra. The heating is to be stopped, as soon as a paddy-seed, kept at the top of the yantra, bursts. The medicine is to be taken out, after the yantra is cooled of itself. Dose, three metis, each, to be given for three days in nava-jvara with ginger juice. After the application of this medicine, the body of the patient is to be covered with a piece of thick cloth. Boiled rice, mixed with butter-milk, is to be given to the patient, after remission of fever. It is efficacious in all sorts of nava-jvara, and especially in that due to an excess of vayu.