Treatment for fever (93): Tridosha-davanala-kalamegha rasa

Incinerate tin with orpiment, lead with realgar, gold copper and silver with mercury, and iron with sulphur. Take an equal quantity of these incinerated metals, visa, tin, lead, gold, copper, silver, and iron. These are to be rubbed with cinnabar, equal in quantity to all of them combined, and heat the whole thing by laghu-puta. The compound, thus prepared, is again to be mixed with mercury, equal to it in quantity, with sulphur, double its quantity, and copper sulphate equal to sulphur. Rub all of these with lime juice, make into a lump and subject it to heat by laghu puta. It is then to be mixed with an equal quantity of sulphur and rubbed with the decoction of chitraka roots. It is next to be mixed with one sixteenth its quantity of aconite, saturated with the decoction of chitraka roots, and subjected to a little heat. The substance is then to be subjected to bhavana with the biles of fish, goat, hog, buffalo, and peacock, and made into pills three raktis in weight each. This medicine is to be taken with honey and powdered pippali, in fever attended with much of heating sensation. The patient is to be given in the afternoon boiled shali rice mixed with soup of mudga, both tepid warm.