Part 7 - Treatment for fever with diarrhea (6): Preta-sanjivana rasa

One part of mercury and sulphur, each, one fourth part of aconite, and mica, equal in quantity to all of them are to be rubbed together with the juices of leaves of dhutura and sarpaksi, for three hours. The compound is then to be subjected to bhavana, for three days, with the decoction of the following:—dhataki flowers, ativisa, musta, shunthi, jira, bala, jamani, dhanya, dried green bilva fruits, patha, haritaki, pippali, bark of kutaja seeds of kutaja, kapittha fruit, and green pomegranate, each of these being two tolas in weight cut into pieces, and boiled with hundred and twenty tolas of water, reducible to thirty two tolas. After the compound is thus subjected to bhavana and dried, it is to be confined in an earthen pot covered with an earthen basin, the joint being cemented as usual, with rags and mud. The pot is then to be heated by the third kind of baluka-yantra. Dose, four raktis each. Four raktis in weight of the powder of the following ingredients, combined in equal quantities, are to be licked with a little of honey, after the medicine is taken. This medicine cures all sorts of diarrhoea.