Part 2 - Treatment of Piles (1): Arsha-kuthara rasa

Four tolas of mercury, eight tolas of sulphur, twelve tolas, each, of copper and iron, eight tolas, each, of trikatu, langali, roots of danti, seeds of pilu, and roots of chitraka, twenty tolas, each, of javaksara, borax, and rock-salt; hundred and twenty eight tolas, each, of she-calf’s urine and milk of snuhi,—all these are to be heated (in a pot made of mud or iron) by means of a very mild heat, till the whole thing turns into a lump. Dose, twelve raktis each, to be taken with butter milk, or juice of pomegranates, or boiled or roasted tuber of shurana.