Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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(3) (12) Thus, this sudhāsūta, prepared by giving five puțas of
pañcamặta (milk, curd, clarified butter, condensed sugar or cow's urine and honey) and three puțas with Triphalas (Haritaki, Bahedā and Amalaki) kills (cures) diseases like typhoid fever, etc, say the pūrvapuruşas (ancestors).
Now Jvarāri (enemy of fever)
(4) (13) Mercury is placed into asafoltida; the whole thing is to
put into a conch-vessel and the conch is to be placed into an earthen vessel, its mouth, is to be closed carefully, and it is to be heated for 12 hours by the flame of rising fire, and thus the medicine prepared with molasses and Aconitum ferox is (called) this Jvarāri.
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(5) (14) By filling a Conch-vessel with mercury and Asafoetida
(or cinnabar) inside (the stomach) of an earthen crucible there, after that, close the mouth of the crucible carefully it is to be heated now for a day in the flame of fire, when mercury comes up in the vessel, when it is mixed with golaka (molasses) and Aconitum Ferox, then this Jvarārirasa is accomplished. (Completed).
(6) (15) By filling an earthen bowl or pot with Sarkha (conch)
fully, place anearthen crucible in the midst of the bowl filled with conch place into that vessel a crucible containg asafoetida, put, mercury into its (asafoetida's) stomach carefully. Heat it carefully for 12 hours in fire on a burning (lit) furnace. That Jvarārirasa is accomplished by mixing with molasses and Aconitum Ferox
(7) (16) Moreover.
Divide pure mercury into 2 parts, Amsta=Amarled ? (into) 2 parts, and gola (molasses) (into), 3 parts respectively. A pill of these medicines with the juice of Amộta (Amptabes) kills (cures) fever through purging.