Method of the alkali (kshara) kalpa

Talmakhana, sugarcane, musli, tilaja, apamarga, nirgundi, rambha (the commentary prints vela), arka, lotus, castor, chitraka, sesame and other famous drugs are burnt to ash; the ash is stirred into four times its water and strained, the alkaline water is cooked on a low fire down to a quarter, a quarter part of jaggery is added and it is cooked to the consistency of phanita. A quarter part of a fine powder of trikatu, trijata and nagaramotha in equal parts is mixed in, and the whole is put in a prepared pot, closed, buried in a heap of grain for a month and then taken by rule; the text says one then overcomes even incurable great diseases and lives long. A footnote defines phanita.