Part 39 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (11): Grahani-shardula rasa

One tola in weight, each, of mercury, shulphur, iron mica, hingu, pancha-lavana, haridra, daruharidra, kustha, bacha, musta, biranga, trikatu, triphala, roots of red chitraka, ajamoda, jamani, gaja-pippali, java-kshara, sarji kshara, borax, salt-petre, sal-ammoniac, and carbon deposited by smoke, and bhanga, equal in quantity to all the above-mentioned combined, are to be mixed together, and taken in the morning, in doses of 12 raktis, each with water in which shali rice has been kept immersed for some time. This medicine cures chronic diarrhoea, weakness of the digesting heat, fever, thirst, all sorts of diarrhoea, swelling, anemia, enlarged spleen, and chronic fever.