Part 5 - Treatment of Piles (4): Sarva-lokashraya rasa

Four tolas, each, of mercury and sulphur; two tolas, each, of orpiment and copper pyrites; one tola each, of aconite, and calamine—all these are to be rubbed together, and made into a kajjali or black owder, which is to be rubbed for three days, with lime-juice, dried, and put inside a glass bottle. The mouth of the bottle is then to be closed with one fourth tola of copper sheet, and the whole bottle is to be coated, all over, with mud, one and a half anguli thick. When dried, the bottle is to be placed inside an earthen vessel, one-third of which has been filled with sand. The remaining portion of the vessel, up to the mouth of the bottle, is also to be filled with sand. The mouth of the vessel is then to be closed by means of an earthen basin. The vessel is then to be heated, for thirty six hours, by means of a fire made of wood. When cooled, by radiation of heat, the product is to be taken out, powdered, and sifted by means of a piece of cloth. It is then to be mixed with eight tola s, each, of copper and mica, two tolas of aconite, and sixteen tolas of maricha. The medicine, thus prepared, is to be kept in a pot made of cocoanut-shell. Dose, two raktis, each, to be taken with a few drops of clarified butter. This medicine cures all the diseases due to an excess of vayu and kapha, diseases affecting the rectum, waste, anemia, colic due to vayu, all sorts of fever, indigestion, and gulma. It cures other diseases also, if taken with suitable accompaniments. It increases the digesting heat, very quickly.