Treatment for fever (158): Sadashiva rasa

One tola in weight, each, of mercury, calamine, orpiment, copper sulphate, borax, and sulphur is to be rubbed with the juice of the leaves of karabella, and made into a paste with which is to be smeared, one fourth of an anguli thick, the inner surface of a pot, made of six tolas in weight of copper only. The pot is then to be placed upside down, upon an earthen basin another basin of the same kind being placed upon the pot. The joint of the two basins is  to be cemented by mud, etc. The samputa, thus prepared, is to be heated by means of the third kind of baluka-yantra, till the paddy seeds kept upon the yantra burst. When cold, the medicine is to be taken out powdered, and mixed with an equal quantity of powdered black-pepper. Dose, two raktis each to be taken with honey and juice of betel leaves. This medicine cures, in a short time, fever due to an excess of vayu. It cures, in three days, all sorts of visama-jvara, including aikahika. dyahika, tryahika, and chaturthaka fevers.