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Sarpakshi is one of the five plants in whose juice mercury is said to be fixed.

हिन्दी: नाकुलीकन्द, कंकालिका [बंगभाषा], सरहटी, गंडनी · मराठी: थोर मुंगुसवेल, थोर सुगंध, मुंगुस कान्दा, तानवडीचें झाड, श्वेत विष्णुक्रान्ता, रक्त शंखपुष्पी

Arguing that plants have the power to remove even the most terrible diseases, the editor asks whether Samantabhadrācārya's bhasmaka disease was not removed by Ayurvedic medicine.

हिन्दी: कपूस का बीज · मराठी: सरकी

हिन्दी: चव्य, कार्पासी, चविका, वच · मराठी: चवक, गजपिंपळी, गजपिंपळीचे मूळ, कापूस, गुंजा

Mercury (rasa, parada) is said to be also called rasaraja.

The text says that in the juice of sarpakshi, sharavarini, sahachari, patha and kakadani mercury is well fixed and does not run here and there, and that steamed (samsveda) with oil combined…

In the juice of the five plants sarpakshi, sharavarini, sahachari, patha and kakadani (the commentary: sarahati-gandani, sarpata, yellow katasaraiya, patha and kakadini) mercury does not…

It is put in the juice of sarpakshi, sharavarini, sahachari, patha and kakadani and steamed with oil combined with their paste and decoction; it then stays steady even in very sharp fire.