Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry

by Bhudeb Mookerjee | 1938 | 52,258 words | ISBN-10: 8170305829 | ISBN-13: 9788170305828

This fourth volume of the Rasa-jala-nidhi deals with Rasa-chikitsa-vidya, also known a the science of Iatrchemistry (chemical medicine), a major branch of Ayurveda. It contains Ayurvedic treatments for Fever and Diarrhea. The Rasa-jala-nidhi (“the ocean of Iatrochemistry, or, chemical medicine) is a compendium of Sanskrit verses dealing with ancie...

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Treatment for fever (114): Jvara-nrisimha rasa

Equal quantities of mercury, sulphur, orpiment, and bhallataka are to be rubbed together with the milk of snuhi, and subjected to heat by puta, for six hours. When cooled of itself, the medicine is to be taken out and subjected to bhavana for three days with the juices of bhringaraja leaves, ganda-durba, and roots of chitraka, and then powdered. This medicine cures chaturthaka and other chronic fevers. Diet, soup of mudga grams, and milk, to be given after remission of fever.

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Three days, Six hours, Equal quantities, Rubbed together, Subjected to bhavana, Subjected to heat, Milk of snuhi, Cooled of itself, Chronic fever.

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Rasasastra category This concludes ‘Treatment for fever (114): Jvara-nrisimha rasa’ included in Bhudeb Mookerjee Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory. The text includes treatments, recipes and remedies and is categorised as Rasa Shastra: an important branch of Ayurveda that specialises in medicinal/ herbal chemistry, alchemy and mineralogy, for the purpose of prolonging and preserving life.

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