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Remedy for general diseases
Make the liquid (rasa) of earth (clay) and saok (dip) a piece of cloth into it, wrap a bottle with it, warp thread over it, like that give seven putas to it. Next get it dried up, next close the mouth of the bottle (kūpi) with clay by putting a piece of brick into its mouth. Next dig a pit measuring 1 gaja=3 cubits depth and 2 gajas=6 cubits on all sides. Fill it up with goat's dung put the bottle into it, fill in goat's dung over it, give it fire (i. e. burn it) for 3 days, go on taking out ashes and go on putting goat's dung. On its getting cooled down, take out the medicine from the bottle, again like that rub the medicine in the juice of ocimum sanctum up to 3 days, again put camphor tā. 5 and combine together by grinding, again fill up the bottle (kūpī=casket) as previously done. Pour the thing into the juice of ocimum sanctun 1 sr. and close the mouth of the bottle (kūpi) and put 7 layers of cloth and clay over it. As before instructed, close its mouth and get it dried up. next give it fire of goat's dung up to 108 praharas by litting fire. Next on its getting cooled down, that essence is produced. Take it out from the Kūpi (casket) put in into a bottle give rice (cokho) 1 bhar or 1 bhar into the leaf, it will destroy all diseases."
Get Luffa Echinata into Centipeda orbicularis for 8 praharas, give tāyā to mercury țā. 5, with the juice of parpoți (oldenlandia corymbosa)1 sr. in a iron pot; go on giving the juice ţā. 2/12 over it. In this way give all the juice. Hold on that mercury with an earthen pot or an iron pot into water, it (mercury) becomes like Somala (oxide of arsenic.)
One rati of this medicine taken by patients, cures all diseases.
Remedies for other diseases.
(Khecari guţikā prathama)
Rub pure mercury tā. 3 (tola) in a mortar in oil-2/palas (=8 tolas), produced from the seed of black datura for seven days till there becomes the best form of mercury like leach.3 First mix it with the powder of phaseolus radiatus, then wrap it up with a strong thread. Dry it up with the survey to make the plaster of it thick like the small finger, dry it up again in the surays. When it gets dried up well, then cook it in mustard
1. SRSS., Ch. 10. 13. 2. SRSS., Ch. 13. 27. 3. SRSS., Ch. 14. 1.
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