Part 55 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (27): Sangrahani-kapata rasa

One part, each, of pearls, gold, mercury, sulphur, borax, mica, burnt cowri shells, and aconite; and eight parts of burnt conch-shells are to be mixed together, subjected to bhavana with the decoction of ativisa, made into a lump, and wrapped up in a piece of cloth. This is then to be put in an earthen pot (the mouth of which is to be covered by means of an earthen basin, the joint being closed by mud and rags), which is to be heated for six hours, by a mild heat. When cooled, the medicine is to be taken out, powdered, kept in an iron pot, and subjected to bhavana with the juices of dhutura, roots of chitraka, and musali. Pills are then to be made, two raktis in weight, each. Accompaniment, clarified butter and maricha, in excess of vayu; honey and pippali, in excess of pitta; and trikatu mixed with bhanga water and clarified butter- This medicine cures grahuni of long standing fever due to waste, piles, diarrhoea, aversion to food, pinasa, spermatorrhoea, stricture, and decrease of the dhatus.