Part 71 - Treatment for chronic diarrhea (43): Hiranya-garbha-pottali rasa

One part of mercury two parts of gold, four parts of pearls, six parts of bell-metal, three parts of sulphur, three parts of burnt cowri shells, and one fourth part of borax are to be rubbed together with the juice of ripe lemon fruits, and confined in a cruicible. This is then to be heated by puta, one aratni in length, breadth, and height, each, by moans of thirty pieces of cowdung cakes, found dried in pasturage. When cooled, the medicine is to be powdered. Dose, four raktis, to be taken with clarified butter, honey, and twenty nine black peppers. This medicine cures weakness of digesting heat, chronic fever, diarrhoea, grahani, and swelling due to anaemia.