Treatment for fever (162): Shitaghna rasa

Orpiment Is first of all to be purified by being boiled with an alkali prepared from kusmanda, lime water, and sesamum oil, in succession. It is then to be mixed with an equal quantity of mercury and rubbed for three days with the juice of the, leaves of karabella and made into a lump, which is to be completely wrapped up by means of a copper leaf. This is then to be confined within two earthen basins, the joint of which is to be cemented by means of a paste prepared from powdered haritaki, molasses, salt, chalk, and mud, mixed together. When dried, the samputa is to be heated by means of the third kind of baluka-yantra, so long as paddy seeds placed upon the yantra do not burst. When cooled by radiation of heat, the medicine is to betaken out, and powdered. Dose, three raktis each, to be taken with honey, juice of tulasi leaves, powdered pippali, sugar, clarified-butter, and a little of milk, all mixed together. Diet, milk boiled rice, soup of mudga grams, and clarified butter. This medicine cures fever.