Part 20 - Treatment for indigestion (18): Shankheshvara rasa and Mahashankhashvara rasa

Equal quantities of burnt conch shell, the five salts, alkali prepared from bark of tamarind, trikatu, hingu, aconite, mercury, and sulphur, arc to be mixed together, and subjected to bhavana with the juice or decoction of leaves of apamarga, roots of chitraka and with lime juiee of the amlavarga (see page 301, vol I), in such a way as to make the compound sour in taste. Dose, two raktis each.

This medicine is called “Mahashankheshvara rasa”, if iron and tin are mixed with it. These medicines are to be taken in the morning with a little of tepid water. They cure weakness of the digesting heat, temporary indigestion, fever, gulma, anemia, leprosy, colic, spermatorrea, piles, etc. Even an unusually heavy meal is digested quickly by means of this nfedicine.