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Introducing, from the scripture of the chief yogis, the processing of bija (gold), mica, tikshna iron, makshika and their essences (sattva) for binding gold-making mercury, the text first…

An eyelid disease with a very soft, painless, copper-coloured pimple with burning.

To the purified tikshna iron powder good gold powder (the commentary: an equal amount) and six times as much svarnamakshika powder are added; this powder, the food (grasa) of mercury, is…

Quoted formula attributed to Pūjyapāda: Śophamudgara rasa. Rasa, gandha, calcined copper (mṛta tāmra), pathyā, vāluka and guggulu in equal parts are mixed with ghee and made into pills; the…

The commentary calls kharpari a particular kind of upadhatu (secondary mineral).

Chapter 23 ends with a series of pastes, oils and nasyas said to turn white hair black, most of them containing iron powder and matured in iron vessels or pots buried in grain.

The kalpa of shilajatu is said to be of many kinds; the author gives it with a few variants.

The enema apparatus has a leak-proof bag of strong, soft leather holding eight kudava and a nozzle 6, 8 or 10 angula long for children, youths and young adults. Near the tip it has a round…

An eyelid disease in which blood suddenly flows from an even lid of normal or coppery colour.

Ghee, rock salt and sour fruit juice rubbed and kept ten days in a copper vessel, then mixed with jasmine flowers, vidanga, dry ginger, rock salt and long pepper and triturated with oil;…

A collyrium of citron, amlaka, rock salt, turmeric, haritaki, dry ginger and the three pippalis, rubbed in a copper vessel and fumigated with haritaki and sesame oil; the commentary says it…

Citron juice, rock salt, ghee, sesame oil, woman's milk and nili are rubbed together into a collyrium, fumigated with the three pungents and applied regularly to the eyes in vata-type…

Nili juice, bhringaraja juice and triphala decoction, one prastha (64 tola) each, and one prastha of sesame oil are mixed and kept. Pieces of the heartwood of vijayasara (asana, the hard…

After the kapha type is recognised by pressing, the patient looks at his nose and the physician slowly pierces the natural opening in the white of the eye with a smooth copper yavavaktra…

In summer the sun-scorched mountains exude a red juice like lac from their cracked rocks; tin, lead, iron, copper, silver and gold are named as its six sources.

For knife and caustic work on piles, an instrument shaped like a cow's teat is made of silver, gold or copper, four angula long and five angula round, with two openings: one at its mouth,…

The oil-massaged patient sits in a large iron or copper vessel of warm vata-reducing decoction reaching to the chest, or sits in an empty vessel while the decoction is poured over him in a…

Ghee, rock salt and sour fruit juice are rubbed in a copper vessel and left in it for ten days; jasmine flowers, vidanga, dry ginger, rock salt and long pepper are then added and the mass…

Smooth probes of silver, copper, lead and gold are made for rubbing on the eye and applying collyrium; they are coated with mercury and bahuvara, heated and quenched in sour gruel, and such…

Smooth probes of silver, copper, lead and gold are made for rubbing the eye and applying collyrium; they are coated with mercury and bahuvara (lisoda, per the commentary), heated and…

A person of pitta constitution is described as quick to anger, sharp-witted, bold, sweating, with yellowish veins, likeable, with coppery-red lips and palate; intelligent, brave,…