Part 43 - Treatment for indigestion (41): Jivana rasa

One part of mercury, two parts of sulphur, three parts of rock-salt, four parts of pippali, five parts of borax, six parts of haritaki, seven parts of roots of chitraka, eight parts of himaballi (svarna-ksiri, and nine parts of nirmali are to be mixed together, and subjected to bhavana with the juices of each of the following, in succession:—brihati, ginger, hingu, punarnaba, putikaranja, and guruchi. The compound is then to be mixed with one-sixteenth its quantity of aconite and made into pills, six raktis in weight, each. This medicine cures all sorts of indigestion, abnormal excess of kapha and vayu, anemia ascites, jaundice, and colic. It increases digesting heat.