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That medicinal ash measuring rati, taken for four days with the chief of Indian bread made of gram powder without clarified butter, destroys (cures) the dysponoea. (The breathing trouble asthma).
The same medicine used according to the medical science destroys also instantly immediately) the disease-psoriasis (Kītikānagarābhikhyāmapi) of different types.
Here what is the use by saying too much. There is no case without death no doubt. This great nourshing medicine destroys all diseases.
The medicinal recipe given by Jagadambū (The mother of the universe) with her own desire as mercy to those saluting her and revealed by her and known from the tradition of the gurus has become greatly unde saying like the golden man.
One makes this uncomparable thing pure and accomplished like a shape of pill (guţikā) by meditating on Hrīíkāram, etc. and taking pure mercury measuring 1 pala, every day only its one masa by saturating it with the juice of date three and rubbing it with gold-leaf measuring 1 pala in a mortar
Grind together sky coloured sulphur, somala (sal-ammonjac), then white borax also in equal portion, each measuring two māsās, as very fine (powder) and rubbing them with orpiment in a mortar, take it with the liquid of the juice of Aloe vera which is washing (Changing) the beauty of the body and smear the gutikā with that which is stiky.3
Place it into a sarāba (earthen lid) and place another śarāb over it, wrap the whole thing (Sarāb) with a piece of cloth smeared with day. Then cast it into the burning fire of dry wild cowdung cakes, the heat of which becomes bearable to fingers and take it out (the sarāb from the fire) and make it cool, then take the medicine out (of the lid), by removing the cover of clay-cloth wrapped over it.
A wise man makes treatment of it (Sanisksti) with one hundred two putas (roastings) by the aforesaid smearing and again heating it by fire
1. SRSS., Ch. 14. 2. 44.-61 2. Ibid. 14. 2. 62 3. Ibid. 14. 2. 63 4. SRSS., Ch. 14. 2. 64.
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