Part 31 - Treatment for indigestion (29): Badavagni rasa

Three tolas, each, of borax, maricha, copper-sulphate, and?asa-sindura (see page 105. vol. 1), and seven and half tolas of mandura (see page 91, vol. 3) are to be rubbed together. Dose, six raktis, each. The patient is first of all to purify himself by purgation, and then commence taking medicine. Betel leaves are to be chewed after diet. This medicine increases appetite enormously, and serves to strengthen the body, and removes senile decay. Mandura, in this case, should be reduced to ashes by being rubbed with the juice of bhargi and triphala; then rubbed for seven times with the juice of bhringaraja.