Sharp iron ash

Thin sheets of sharp iron are smeared with a paste of the five salts and sour substances, heated in a closed crucible on a cow-dung fire and quenched in khadira and triphala liquid, sixteen times, then heated on khadira wood, powdered and sieved. Taken with ghee and sugar according to strength, it is said to remove kushtha, spleen disease, piles and pandu and to give strength, youthfulness and comfort.