Mushkakadi alkali

A black mushkaka tree is uprooted, dried and burnt to ash; one drona of the ash is boiled with six adhaka of water in a large clean vessel until the liquid is clear, red and sharp, strained, and cooked again with stirring until it thickens. Burnt conch navel and lime are added in proper measure, with putikaranja and bhallataka ground in the alkali water. Kept in a good vessel, it is to be drunk in proper dose for internal piles, mahodara, nodules, gulma and liver enlargement, and applied for external piles and charmakila.