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Rubbing (the killed mercury) with gold is said to give more vigour (virya) and freedom from disease.

Golden shower (amaltās) flowers are listed among flowers said to increase vata and kapha, calm pitta and blood, and expel worms from the belly.

Gold and red ochre mixed with ghee are licked for hiccup.

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…

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…

Killed mercury (mrita rasa) rubbed with gold is taken daily by the patient, according to the measure (strength) of the doshas, in well-boiled milk with jaggery; afterwards woman's milk is…

Perfected mercury with mica powder (ghana-churna, in the verse) is joined with gold, which the commentary calls gold bhasma; by the processes the verse calls samvasana and atyasana, and the…

Perfected mercury that has been tested for steadiness in fire is taken (the commentary: in a measure like the fine flies spread in the sky) and placed carefully on the ground; a little of…

Fresh cow butter or ghee mixed with gold bhasma (हेमचूर्ण in the verse) and vacha powder is given to the child according to its digestive strength, starting with a very small amount and…

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…

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…

Seeing the purified mercury shining with a lustre like the sun, the physician bows to the siddhas and worships it with care, then puts into it a quarter part of suitable, very red bija…

Gulma is a round lump between the heart and the bladder, of five kinds (vata, pitta, kapha, all three, and blood in women); it is treated with purgation, dosha-pacifying drugs, enemas, the…

Buttermilk is named as the suitable after-drink when eating boiled rice and the like.

Coconut is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

हिन्दी: तृणविशेष · मराठी: आपटा, कोरळ, घोळ, चुका

हिन्दी: सेहुंड का पेड़, गोली, बसन्तरोग · मराठी: गुळवेल

हिन्दी: श्वेत पुनर्नवा · मराठी: श्वेत पुनर्नवा, घोळ

The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

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

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…

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,…

After worshipping the Jina, the presiding deities, the lords of the yakshas, Ambika and the yakshi Kushmandini, reciting the five-salutation mantra 24 times and taking the preliminary…