Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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copper with one part of pure mercury prior to smearing it first with the juice Neem. After that, gentle fire is to be given to it for 4 praharas by smearing it with double sulphur, rubbed with the juice of Citrullus colocynthis (Uttaravāruņi); next close it into a plate (Sthāli) together with the juice (essence) of Citrullus colocynthis with a Sarāb (lid) having upside down mouth, close the mouth of the plate by filling with ash over (it) and place it on the oven. Copper is killed by this process.
Now, (then) forly two puțas (roastings) are given to it, 7 putas of the juice of Calotropis gigantea, 7 puțas of Neem, 7 puțas with Oxalis corniculata (Amlavetasa), 7 puțas with the juice of ginger, 7 putas with Baliospermum montanum (Citrā), and 7 puțas with Eolipta alba, but they should be given with Sulphur. After that, give 7 puțas with pañcāmsta (milk, curd, clarified butter, cow's urinne, honey) and condensed sugar and again one puţa with ginger, thus 50 putas (in all). This is Tāmra Bhiravah; give/rati this medicine with double the quantity of camphor in the case of typhoid, I rati of rasa with killed mica, (three times more), i, e. threefold in the case of T. B, and-dried ginger in cough and dyspnoea with Trikatu (Sunth, maric--black peper and pipal)-- Vala and in cholera with Suņțhi, Vāla 8.
Now Another Medicine.
(1) (10) The leaf of copper gets purified with tamarind, etc., in
the roots of Datura and Payasvini. (Kirakakali=Jivanti= Leptadania reticulata), with five parts of Niguņdikā (Vitex negundo ?) and being dipped three times successively in the milk of Vajra (Euphorbia nerifolia) and Arka (Calotropis gigantea).
(2) (U) The leaf of copper gets killed and attains whitness, after
its smearing five times with double the quantity of sulphur with Kāñjika (sour water of rice), drying up in the shade and cooking by puţapāka (cooking by roasting)