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four grains eacli. They are given, beaten up with a little honey, 

 in ordinary remittent fever. 1 



Taruna jvardri? Take of mercury, sulphur, aconite and croton 

 seeds, equal parts, rub together with the juice of Alor Indira and 



make into four grain pills. These pills act on the bowels and 

 relieve fever* They are administered with sugar and water. 



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In diarrhoea and dysentery, mercury is used in a great variety 



of forms. The following are a few examples. 



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Vajrakapdta rasa? Take of mercury, sulphur, opium, mocha* 

 rasa, (gum of Bamba.r Malabaricum) 9 the three myrobalans, 

 ginger, black pepper, and long pepper, in equal parts, powder and 

 mix. Soak the powder in the juice of the leaves of Cannabis 

 sativa ( Vijayd ) and wedelia calendula rea ( Bhringardja ) seven 

 times and make into six grain pills. This medicine is adminis- 

 tered with honey in obstinate chronic diarrhcra. Dose grains 

 four to twenty-four. 



Jiasa parpati* This is prepared by melting together a mix- 

 ture of equal parts of sulphur and mercury in an iron ladle, 

 smeared with ghee (clarified butter). The melted fluid is poured 

 on a piece of plantain leaf, placed on a ball of cowdung. It is 





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