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Remedies for fever
Put mercury tā. 30 into a chinese pot. Fill it up with the urine of donkey 25 srs., close its mouth, keep it into a village dustbin for 6 or 7 months.
Perhaps (if ever) the urine does not get dried up, keep it there for 1 month again. Pra. de. pohāra 1, ha, 2. (not deciphered).
Manibhadra pill is used in old fever'.
Make lump of mercury tā. 5 and trapu (a king of tin) tā 5, soaf cinnabar tā. 5, Trigadu (not identified) tā. 15, Caryophllus aromaticus tā. 5, Ficus Tsief (pipali or piper longum) and Alangium lamarku (cakalakaro) tā. 5 in the juice of ocimum sanctum and in the juice of betel leaf.
If a pill measuring a gunja is taken, all fevers go away.
The mixture of lemon 1, dried up date (Khārika) 5 and miri kana (grain of black pepper) 4 is administered in the case of a patient, suffering from bile and gas with Caryophyllus aromatics (lavanga) and misri (condensed) sugar and the diet-Khicadi (hotpetch) rice and pulse-Tuyar with clarified butter (is served to him) as much as liked by him, all types of fever go away. This pill is Jaśavantavāli?.
Rub mercury sr. in a jhikā (jug ? or vanaspati) for 1 prahara in Aloe vera and in turmeric for 1 prahara each. Rub mercury sr, in the juice of ocimum sanctum į sr. Make it lump and rub it in the juice of Bāvaci (purple Fleabane-psovaha corylifolia) ; sr., rub it in the juice of Marhashi (Spilanthus oleraces) sr. and Nāgaladudhi (Eupborbia pilulifera) sr.
Sakandara which is just like Sarakhandiya, the leaf of which is like jhijharu (biophytum Sensitivum) or the flower of which is yellow. Its leaf is like that of saṁkhāholi (Ctendepis cerasiformis). But its juice is very much sticky. If it does not come forth, take it with ocimum sanctum. Boil ocimum sanctum. Boil that juice sr. and the juice of Sakandarta and take it out, put it into a Dolikāyantra, Make 4 balls by preparing lump of the juice of Amkoli (Alanguim lamarkii) 1. sr.
1. SRSS., Ch. 13. 2. 13. x. Sunth, maric and pipal=trigadu 2. SRSS, Ch. 9. 21. 3. Ibid., Ch. 9. 22.
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