Part 4 - Treatment for enlargement of spleen and liver (3): Pliha-shardula rasa

One part, each, of mercury, sulphur, trikatu, realgar, cowri-shell, copper-sulphate, hingu, iron, jayanti, rohitaka, javakshara, borax, rock-salt, roots of chitraka, and croton-seeds, and three parts of copper are to be rubbed together, and subjected to bhavana, for three days, each, in succession, with the juice or decoction of trivrit, roots of chitraka, pippali, and ginger juice. Pills are then to be made one rakti or two raktis in weight, each, to be taken with honey and powdered pippali. This medicine cares enlargement of spleen, very quickly. It also cures agramansa (swelling and stiffness of that part of the peritonium which lies between the spleen and the liver), enlargement of the liver, gulma, mucus, all sorts of udara-roga, swelling of the body due to anemia, bidradhi (a kind of tumour), dull-ness of the digesting heat, and all sorts of fever.