Part 50 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (22): Sarvarogya rasa

Four tolas of purified lead is to be melted in an iron cauldron containing some oil prepared from tila (sesamum). Four tolas of mercury is to be poured upon the melted lead, and both to be mixed together. This compound is then to be thrown upon the earth and then upon four tolas of melted sulphur contained in another iron pot placed upon a mild fire. The three things are then to be rolled together, and mixed as before with four tolas of powdered orpiment, and four tolas of realgar. The compound is then to be powdered, mixed and rubbed with the following:—four tolas, each, of incinerated lead, copper pyrites, tiksna iron, calamine reduced to ashes, mica, cinnabar, and bitumen; and two tolas, each, of satkola, katphala, madhurika, jamani, chaturjata, renuka, ushina(?), biranga, tumbaru, bhanga, rasna, kankola, chora-puspi, puskaramula, kaivarta musta; kirata-tikta, and seeds of dhutura; eight tolas of langali, and aconite one twelfth of the aggregate quantity of all the above-mentioned. These are then to be mixed with a sufficient quantity of sugar, and subjected to bhavana with the juice or decoction of the following, in succession:—triphala, dashamula, jayanti, ginger, basaka, and bhringaraja Pills are then to be made, two raktis in weight, each, to be taken once a day, with a few drops of honey. This medicine gives rise to intense appetite. It cures cholera, hiccough, acute grahani, sensation of being pricked with needles all over the body, consumption, anemia, all sorts of colic, gulma, cough, asthma, piles, tumour, and other diseases.