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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…

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

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

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

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil cooked with bala-root decoction, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram, and with a paste of the…

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…

Sesame oil cooked with decoctions and pastes of all vata-reducing trees, passed through burnt earth and recovered, then cooked a thousand times with sour liquids, curd, milk and…

In baddha and sravi udara an incision is made on the left four fingers below the navel; the intestine is drawn out and inspected, the lodged pebbles, thorns and the like are removed, the…

Specification of the uttara basti nozzle: for men eight finger-breadths of the patient's own finger, round, smooth, of silver or another metal, with a collar at the base, like a jasmine…

Fourteen adhaka of sesame oil is cooked with bala-root decoction six times its quantity, milk and decoctions of kola, bilva, both nightshades, tuntuka, agnimantha, barley and horse gram,…

A footnote defines bija: when, while one metal is being cooked, another metal is put into it and it takes on the colour of the metal added, that is called bija. It adds a quotation that…

Cooling collyria are used to remove shukti of the eye: pearl, crystal, conch, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, sandal and sugar are ground well in goat's milk and applied as a collyrium.

A cooling collyrium for shukti: pearl, crystal, coral, conch, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, sandal and sugar ground well in goat's milk.

Bija is a metal that, put into another metal while it is being cooked, gives it its own colour, and pure gold and silver are also called bija; garbhadruti is making what mercury has…

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,…

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…

The nozzle is to be made of gold, fine silver, copper, wood and the like, unbroken, with a smooth ball at its mouth; the opening inside the tip is the size of a cooked mung bean, pigeon pea…

For men the nozzle is eight finger-breadths long (a footnote: of the patient's own finger), round, smooth and well formed, made of silver or another metal, with a collar (karnika) at its…

Ground is burnt with dried vata-reducing trees, sesame oil cooked with their decoction and paste is poured on it and left overnight, and the oil-soaked earth is boiled next day to recover…

Sour fruits are ground and applied on the tongue, and the patient drinks water in which heated iron, sand, silver or gold has been quenched, water cooked with the sweet or cooling groups,…