Treatment for fever (145): Kalpadruma rasa

Equal quantities of mercury, sulphur, aconite, and copper are to be mixed together, and subjected to bhavana with the biles of boar, goat, buffalo, rohita fish, and peacock, in succession; then, for seven days, with the juice of leaves of nirgundi, and, for three days, with ginger juice. Pills are then to be made of the size of a mustard seed, which are to be dried in a shady place. Having regard to the doshas, power of digestion, and age of the patient, seven to twenty one of such pills may be given, a day, to him, who is to sleep, covered with a piece of cloth so long as ho does not perspire. After sleep, he is to drink some curd, mixed with sugar. Accompaniment of this medicine, one rakti of black sulphuret of mercury, mixed with powdered pippali, and a little of hot water. This medicine cures even an obstinate jirna-jvara, visama jvara, fever with diarrhoea, both acute and chronic, amemia, and jaundice. This medicine is not to be given to a patient suffering from asthma, cough, and colic.