Shyamadi hair-blackening oil, and a second preparation with metal powders

Flowers of shyama, saireyaka, sahachara and black madanaphala, leaves of mahanila and nila, shalaparni, mango kernel, arjuna bark, samudraphala, jujube, the bark of milky trees and iron powder, in equal parts, are mixed with an equal amount of mud from a lotus pond and with nili and bhringaraja juice and triphala decoction, and kept ten nights in an iron pot; sesame oil is then cooked with this paste and with nili, bhringaraja and triphala decoction until it blackens white hair, stored a month in an iron pot, and applied to the hair and taken as nasya. Verses 99-101 add a second preparation: nili, bhringaraja and triphala juices with sesame oil, a distillate of asana heartwood, and powders of copper, iron, nilanjana and bronze, cooked, buried in grain four months and applied after a triphala wash.