Part 59 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (31): Jatiphaladi rasa

One fourth tola, each, of mica, mercury, and sulphur are to be rubbed together to form a kajjali (black powder), with which is to be mixed one fourth tola, each, of jatiphala, shalmali bark, musta, borax, ativisa, jira, and maricha; and one sixteenth tola of aconite. The compound is then to be rubbed and subjected to bhavana with the juices of the leaves of each of the following, in succession:—nirgundi, bhanga, jambu, jayanti, pomegranates, kesharaja, patha, and bhringaraja. Pills are then to be made, six raktis in weight, each. This medicine cures grahani, cough, and amlapitta. It increases power of digestion. The fallowing are prohibited at the time of taking this medicine:—fried fish, fish white-coloured, banana, and raddish.