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Mercurial Medicines and its curative powers
Rub mercury tā. 5 in the juice of sweet bottle a gourd (Liagenaria vulgaris). Make lump of it, grind fresh lime and make galox with jarādyly of an earthen vessel (Kulaďāni). Make Khāto'z into that put the lump of mercury into that, next give juice of sweet bottle gourd and dose it up. Put it into an earthen vessel, give it fire under it; lump gets burnt and becomes ash; on its getting cold, take it out, that mercury gets incinerated, it makes many benefits.
Rub mercury tā 5 and cinnabar, țā. 5 with the Kernal (garbha) of a ripe wood apple (Aegale Marmelos), rub them with the milk of cow pai 1 bhār. In this way do it for 7 days. Next taking out the kernal of the second wood-apple, put it into that, seal it up, put 7 layers of wax and cloth over it and give it gajapuțāgni by filling the pit with dry dung of goat fos 21 days. Qn its getting cold. take it out, rati of the essence (thus prepared) is the rule in its taking."
Other remedies for strength.
Purify copper sr., next grind all these Samkhio somala (oxide of arsenic) to. 1, Aconitum ferox (Vachanāga) to. 1, borax to. 1 and salammonaic to. 1 in the juice of Achyranthus aspera for 4 days, apply 3 srs. of the juice of the juice of Achyanthus aspera. Next make thick tablets, Dry them up in the shade. Next make two earthen crucibles and
one earthen bowl; put them into it; give 4 layers of cloth and clay over it by closing it; get it dried up, next dig 2 pits side by side into the earth, fill them with dry cowdung cakes and lit fire. Next when the fire becomes smokeless, then put the balls (or pills) into it (one) cover the fire, next make the fire of the second pit ready, before the first one does not get cooled down. Make it smokeless. Next by taking out the golās (balls or pils) from the first pit, put the same into the second. In this way make fire for 14 praharas. On its getting cooled down, take out golās, the medicine becomes white, it is accomplished; give (mix) a does measuring 1 a grain of rice into a leaf. It is efficacious, it is generator of appetits and strength.3
1. SRSS., Ch. 10. 70. 2. SRSS., Ch. 10. 71. 3. SRSS., Ch. 13. 21.
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