Treatment for fever (163): Brihat-jvarantaka lauha

One tola in weight, each, of mercury, sulphur, jatikosa, and jatiphala; one fourth tola of gold, half a tola of iron and silver, each; one tola each of mica, bitumen, bhringaraja, musta, kesharaja, apamarga, lavanga, triphala, cardamom, roots of pippali, rock salt, bira-salt, sugar-like essence of guruchi, kantakari, garlic, dhanya, jira, black-jira, red sandal wood, devadaru, daruharidra, roots of kutaja, kirata-tikta, and bala; and two tolas of maricha are to be rubbed together with ginger juice, and made into pills three raktis in weight, each. This medicine is to be taken in the morning with honey. It cures all sorts of fevers, jaundice, anaemia, spermatorrhoea, chronic diarrhoea, etc. It is a good aphrodisiac.