Treatment for fever (140): Parpati rasa

One part of mercury, and two parts of sulphur are to be rubbed together and made into a black powder, which is then to. be rubbed with the juice of bhringaraja. The compound is then to be mixed with one fourth its quantity of copper and iron, each and the whole thing is to be heated in an iron pot, the substance being rolled, over and over again, by means of an iron rod, in course of the heating. When sufficiently melted, the medicine is to be poured upon a banana leaf placed upon cowdung, and immediately presed by a bundle made of another piece of a banana leaf containing, within it, a quantity of cowdung. When solidified and cooled, the medicine is to be powdered, and subjected to bhavana, for one day, with the juice of the leaves of nirgundi. It is then to be subjected to bhavana, for seven days, with the juice or decoction of the following, combined:—jayanti, triphala, kanya, vasaka, bhargi, trikatu, bhringaraja, roots of chitraka, and mundiri This medicine cures all sort of fever due to an excess of phlegm. Accompaniment, honey with the decoction of haritaki, shunthi, and guruchi.