Treatment for fever (99): Suchika-ksepana rasa

One part each of aconite, poison of black cobra, and red gauripasana and three parts of cinnabar are to be rubbed together with the biles of hog, buffalo, goat, peacock, and rohita fish, in succession, and made into pills of the size of a mustard seed, each. In sannipatika fever of extremely virulent type and in cholera, one such pill is to be given to the patient with cocoanut water; or if he is unable to swallow it, the pill is to be rubbed with honey and mixed with the blood which issues out of the crown of his head, the skin of which has been pricked a little by means of a needle. After the application of the medicine, the patient is to be given a bath in a profuse quantity of cold water, after his body has been rubbed well with oil prepared from sesamum seeds and with sandle-paste. He is also to be allowed to drink a sufficient quantity of cocoanut water, and to take boiled rice with curd. Other cooling actions may also be resorted to.