Part 73 - Dugdha-bati

Twelve parts of aconite and opium, each, six parts of load-stone, and sixty parts of cinnabar are to be rubbed together with milk, and made into pills, two raktis, each. One such pill is to be taken in the morning rubbed with a little of milk. Diet, absolutely pure milk (not mixed with water) just boiled and cooled, to be taken in quantities just sufficient to pacify hunger and thirst. Salt and drinking of water are to be strictly prohibited. In intense thirst a little of cocoanut water may be allowed. This medicine cures grahani of long standing, ascites, chronic fever, and amlapitta.