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Vetdla ram. 1 Take of purified mercury, sulphur, orpiment, 

 aconite, and black pepper, equal parts. First rub the mercury and 

 sulphur together, then add the other ingredients in fine powder, 

 and make into two-grain pills. They are given with the juice of 

 fresh ginger in remittent fever with affection of the brain. 



Vidyddhara rasa. 2 Take of mercury, sulphur, prepared copper, 

 iron pyrites, realgar and orpiment equal parts, tub them together 

 and soak the mixture in a decoction of long pepper and in the 

 milky juice of Euphorbia nereifolia (vajri). v Make into pills about 

 six grains each. These pills are given with honey in enlarged 

 spleen and other enlargements of the abdominal viscera. 



Tdlakesari rasa z — Orpiment forms the active ingredient of 

 several pills for skin diseases, of which this is an example. Take 

 of orpiment, realgar, iron pyrites (svamamdhshika), mercury, 

 borax, and rock salt, one part each, sulphur and burnt conch- 

 shell two parts each, rub them together for a day with lemon 

 juice, then add to the mass one- thirtieth part of its weight of 

 aconite, and mix. Dose, five to ten grains with butter. After it, 

 powdered seeds of Vernonia anthelmintica (v&huchth two drachms 

 should be taken with honey and ghee. This medicine is useful in 

 all sorts of chronic skin diseases. The above formula is taken 

 from the Bhavaprakasa. Sarangadhara gives a similar prescrip- 

 tion under the name of Mahdtdlesvara. 



Orpiment forms an ingredient of several external applications 

 for skin diseases. Thus, take of orpiment, wood cf Berberis lycium 

 (ddrnharidrd) , seeds of Iiophanus satlvus (mulaka), wood of Pi 



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