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SEVENTH CHAPTER
The process of purifying Mica
(1) Give 1 puța (roasting) of Eclipta alba-wedelia calendulacca (Bhāngrā) to black mica, 2 puțas of datura meta, 1 pața of Calotropis gigantea, 1 pața of Euphorbia pilulifera (Nāgadudhi), 1 pa, of purple tephrosia (Sarapamkha), 1 pața of adventitous branch of Banyan tree (vadavai), 1 puța of cow's urine (to it), each puța followed by the heat of fire for 24 minutes (ghaời).
Vişama jvara (typhoid fever ?) goes away (if the medicine thus prepared is taken), it is to be taken with butter made of she-buffalo's milk; all types of gonorrhoea (sychotic diseases) go away (i.e. cured) (if it is taken). If cuminum cymnum (jirā) is taken with vāsi pāņi (old water), of 6 months, the disease of Rakta pitta bloody (bile) goes away. If taken with the juice of ginger, cough and dysponoea (breathing trouble) go away. If taken with rice water, epilepsy goes away and hiccough also goes away.
(2) If collyrium is made with caryophyllus aromaticus (lavang) and citrus lemon, all diseases of the eye go away, give anupanā (trituration pārati = *rati ?) with honey.
· Mūtrakrcchatā (Scanty urination) stops (gets cured), if it is taken. If caryophyllus with clarified butter rati-2 is given to a patient, his Jholo (a kind disease) goes away. If one dose measuring only til (sesamum) is given with rice water, Mabārākhi (not identified) disease goes away. Huka, Cuka, Nala, Barahalla (not identified), aștagulma (8 kind of tumour) go away. If it is taken with water, giddines stops, arthritis (or gout) & bhrama coranigi (not indentified) disease go away, If mug, rice, wheat, clarified butter tā–15 and rotla are taken, the (weak becomes strong).
(3) Make powder of black mica-1 sr. by grinding it. Keep it drenching in the human urine for 21 days. Next grind it in the juice of pita-holola (Yellow Myrobalans), make paste with the combination of mercury (rasa); give it fire in gajapuța, again grind the medicine in sach juice, give it gajapuţāgni. Thus give it fire 21 times. That is, good mica is produced.
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