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Mineral
Borax (tankana)
सुहागा (टंकण) · टङ्कण
Organ
Chest
छाती (उरस्) · उरस्
Animal product
Beeswax (madhuchchhishta)
मोम (मधूच्छिष्ट) · मधूच्छिष्ट
Beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung, nalika, buffalo ear-wax, woman's milk, the paravati tree, meshashringi and borax powder is said to bring about the transfer (sankramana) of the…
Procedure
Black shilajatu (usha) kalpa for producing gold
काले शिलाजीत (उषा) का कल्प · कृष्ण शिलाजतु कल्प
Black shilajatu, called usha, is mixed with borax (tankana kshara), gunja, ghee, honey and jaggery, ground, placed in the fire and blown; the text says gold comes out of it within a short…
Remedy
Drinking goat's milk
बकरी के दूध का पान · अजदुग्धपान
Hot goat's milk with sugar and roasted borax powder, drunk for several days while abstaining from food, for gravel and stone.
Formulation
Kapotavankadi decoction
कपोतवंकादि क्वाथ
A decoction of brahmi, vishnukranta, teak fruit, semal and hijjala with borax powder, sugar and camphor, drunk for urinary gravel.
Procedure
Processing mica with gold and joining it to mercury
अभ्रक का संस्कार और पारे में संयोग
Yellow mica (hemabhraka), patalika and patuvajraka are mixed with rock salt, borax, dry ginger, black pepper and long pepper and ground well with the juice of punarnava (vishakhapara); this…
Procedure
Beeswax mixture for the transfer of mercury
रस संक्रमण औषध · रससंक्रामण
The text says the bound, purified and perfected king of mercury (rasaraja) is transferred (sankramati) by beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung (kakavit), nalika (the commentary: a…
Topic
Black shilajatu kalpa
कृष्ण शिलाजतु कल्प
A black kind of shilajatu called usha is described as liquid and shining like lac, plainly showing five colours, used in mercury work and able to make the six metals liquid. Mixed with…
Topic
Drinking goat's milk
बकरी के दूध का पान · अजदुग्धपान
Giving up all food, the patient drinks quite hot goat's milk mixed with sugar and roasted borax powder for several days; this is said to remove gravel and stone.
Topic
Drugs for the transfer of mercury; close of the teaching
रस संक्रमण की औषधियाँ और उपसंहार · रस संक्रमणौषध
Having described the bound, purified and perfected king of mercury, the text names the drugs for its transfer (sankramana): beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung, nalika (a kind of…
Topic
Kapotavankadi decoction
कपोतवंकादि क्वाथ
A decoction of brahmi (kapotavanka), vishnukranta, the fruit of the teak tree, semal and hijjala (samudraphala), mixed with borax powder, sugar and camphor, is to be drunk by one with…
Topic
Plant glossary, letter section ट (entries 1–2: टंकण, टुण्टुक)
वनौषधिशब्दादर्श, ट वर्ग (प्रविष्टि 1–2: टंकण, टुण्टुक) · ट
Two entries: टंकण, glossed as सुहागा (borax; Marathi टांकणखार), and टुण्टुक, glossed as टैंटुक वृक्ष (Marathi दिंडा), a name the lexicon lists for shyonaka.
Topic
Procedures with mica and tikshna iron
अभ्रक और तीक्ष्ण लोह के प्रयोग · रस प्रयोग विधि
Yellow mica, patalika and patuvajraka are ground with rock salt, borax and the three pungents in punarnava juice, cooked in kanji, melted in a crucible, ground with gold powder and mixed…
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Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.103), attributed to Pūjyapāda: Kālāgnirudra…
Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.103), attributed to Pūjyapāda: Kālāgnirudra rasa, also called Agnituṇḍī, for the eighty vāta disorders. Purified mercury, viṣa, sulphur,…
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Quoted formula, labelled as from the Mādhavanidāna (prakaraṇa 1, p.30) and called taught by…
Quoted formula, labelled as from the Mādhavanidāna (prakaraṇa 1, p.30) and called taught by Pūjyapāda: Sarvajvaragajāṅkuśa. Rasa, amlasāra-gandha, jayapāla seeds and borax are ground in a…
Question
With what does the text say mercury is made to pass into metals (sankramana)?
ग्रंथ के अनुसार पारे का धातुओं में संक्रमण किससे होता है?
With the juices of five plants (the commentary: musta, palasha, gorakhmundi, betel and milky-sap trees), and, for the perfected king of mercury, with beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow…