Treatment for fever (76): Mrityu-nisudana rasa

One part of mercury? two parts of sulphur, and one part each of aconite, orpiment, kankustha, realgar, cinnabar, iron, roots of chitraka, trikatu, bhringaraja, copper pyrites, mica, hastisundi, aconite, kumbhi, tanduliaka (tandulaka?), and copper are to be rubbed together wih ginger juice, for three days. They are then to be rubbed with twelve tolas, each, of lime juice, decoction of triphala, and juice of nirgundi leaves, and with four tolas of juice of changeri. After being rubbed in this way, the compound is to be dried, put inside a glass bottle, and heated by means of a baluka-yantra. It is next to be rubbed with ginger juice and made into pills, two raktis in weight each. This medicine cures sannipatika fever.