Treatment for fever (106): Suchi-mukha rasa

Equal quantities of mercury, sulphur, orpiment, realgar, copper pyrites, jatiphala, copper sulphate, croton seeds, aconite, boras, and bikankata are to be rubbed together. The mercury and sulphur, in this case, are to be rubbed first of all. to form kajjali or black powder, with which the other ingredients are to be mixed and rubbed together The compound is then to be subjected to bhavana with the bile of a poisonous snake. When dried, the medicine is to be kept in a pot made of lead. One rakti of this medicine is to be mixed with blood, shed at the crown of the patient’s head by means of a needle It cures a patient in a dying state suffering from sannipatika fever with such symptoms as drooping of the eye-lids, drowsiness, titanus, coldness of the extremities, cough asthma, aversion to food, delirium, shivering, hiccough, loss of power of speech, and power of hearing, insanity, and apoplexy.