Treatment for fever (156): Mritajivana rasa

Equal quantities of orpiment and mercury are to be rubbed well with the juice of black jira to form a lump, which is to be wrapped up with the leaves of arka, and confined within two earthen basins the joint of which is to be cemented by means of a paste prepared with powdered molasses, lime, chalk, and haritaki. The samputa thus prepared, is to be heated by means of the third kind of baluka-yantra. till paddy seeds kept upon the yantra become discoloured. When cooled by radiation of heat, the medicine is to be taken out, and used in doses of three raktis, each, to be taken with the juice of tulasi leaves. Clarified butter, sugar, powdered pippali milk and honey arc to be taken by the patient, a little after he takes the medicine. It cures all sorts of visama-jvara. Cold water, in torrents, is to be poured upon the head of the patient, if he vomits after taking the medicine.