Alkali antidote (ksharagada)

The roots, bark and leaves of about fifty plants (arka, ankola, chitraka, white oleander, musta, the milky and astringent trees and many others) are burnt to ash; the ash is mixed with six times its amount of cow urine, strained through clean white cloth and cooked by the alkali method, adding fine powders of the three pungents, turmeric, kushtha, manjishtha, vacha, bega, house soot, tagara, black salt and asafoetida. Used as nasya, collyrium and paste it is said to destroy all poisons.