Greatness of perfected mercury: preparations for use

Perfected mercury with mica powder, joined with gold (the commentary: gold bhasma), becomes steady in fire, and one who eats this swooned nectar is said to gain quickly imperishable vigour, freedom from disease and great strength. Bound mercury cooked on a very mild fire in an iron vessel with ghee prepared with triphala water and two haritaki yields a ghee that, drunk daily, is said to make a man at once as strong and splendid as a rutting elephant; taken with one pala of the mercury it is said to remove the most severe diseases, and one pala of gold bhasma mixed with it may be used as nasya.