Part 63 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (35): Ama-parpati rasa

Half a tola of mercury, specially purified with powdered brick, powdered turmeric, and carbon deposited by smoke emited by fire made of wood, charcoal, or cow-dung is to be rubbed with half a tola of sulphur, purified with the juice of bhringaraja, and made into a kajjali or black powder which is to be subjected to bhavana with the juice of each of the following, in succession:—leaves of nirgundi, manduka-parni, kesharaja, grisma-sundara, aparajita, somaraji, and red chitraka leaves. Pills are then to be made of the size of a mustard seed, each. Seven such pills are to be taken with mastu of curd. This medicine cures diarrhoea, acute and chronic. Diet, boiled rice with curd.