Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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Now mercury is combined with the juice of Solanum nigrum (Kākamācī Kacamaci), mustard oil, a little sulphur, kept in cowdung for one ghaţikā (24 minutes), and roasted by a little fire again and again.
Having put Sulphur two times more into mercury and got it assimilated, mix pure gold into it, after that, mix the bile of peacock and mustard oil-(Prāmitarthatulite kṣama-vṛtlyā).
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Then take out mercury from sulphur by leaving water cleansed by making the essence with plumbago Zeylanica and black Bhṛnga (cannabis sativa) dipped (bathed). with 8 putas; that becomes Bhasmarasa oxide of mercury with gold.)
On smearing the leaf of gold with that bhasma (oxide), mixed with Feronia elephantum (Kapittha), bring the essence of mercury to the state of oxide by giving eight putas (to it) with gentle fire.
Piştibhasma (powder of oxide of mercury) is to be prepared by giving sulphur over and under (it) on all sides again and again.
Making it cooked with the milk of Calotropis gigantea, then evaporate it with the fire of coal. This rasa is called Hiranyagarbha, the carrier of Yoga (energy
activity).
Now Nagendra Rasaḥ
Nagendrarasah is prepared with mercury, rubbed separately with Raivate, (a kind of plant, (=puring cassia = Cassia fistula ?); Alangium lamarkii (Aṁkola), Plumbago Zeyanica (Citraka), next with Aloe vera (kanya), again and again, next roasted in oil with lead and sulphur
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The medicine combined with Vyoşa (Sunth, marica, and pipal), datura. poison (Vachanaga), saturated with pūra (Bijapuraka) and Jambir (a kind of citrus medica) and lemon and ginger, (if given to patient), cures serious type of cholera.