Part 29 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (1): Vajra-kapata rasa

Equal quantities of incinerated mercury, mica, sulphur, yavakshara, borax, bacha, and bhanga are to be rubbed together for three days with the juices of leaves of jayanti, leaves of bhringaraju, and lime fruit, made into a lump and dried. This lump is then to be put into an iron pot, and heated for one and half hour by mild heat. The compound is then to be mixed with an equal quantity of ativisa, and exudation of the bark of shalmali, each. It is then to be subjected to bhavana, for seven times, with the decoction of bhanga, rubbing it well every time and then dried. Dose, twelve raktis, each, to be taken with honey.