58 ANSKRXT MATE It I A MEDI \ 



Jayamangala rasa. 1 Take of mercury obtained by sublimation, 

 of cinnaMr, sulphur, borax, prepared copper, r'n anr) iron pyrites, 

 rock-salt, and black pepper, prepared iron and silver, eacb one 

 part, prepared gold two parts, powder them well, mix and soak 

 the mixture three times respectively in the juice of datura leaves, 

 and leaves of Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis (sephdlikd) , in the decoction 



of the ten roots, called dasamula, and of chiretta. Divide the 

 mass into four-grain pills. They are taken with cumin-seed 

 powder and honey. This medicine is used in old chronic fevers 

 of all sorts aud is said to be a powerful tonic and alterative, that 

 may be administered with suitable adjuncts in many diseases. 



Mrig&nka rasa? Take of mercury one part, prepared gold 

 one part, sulphur and pearls each two parts, borax one -fomth 

 part, rub them together and beat into a ball with kdnjiha. This 

 is dried, enclosed in an earthen crucible and exposed tq h^at 

 within a pot of rock-salt in the manner of a hot sand-bath for 

 twelve hours. When cool the ball is taken out from the crucible 

 and reduced to powder. It is administered in doses of one to 

 four grains with about a scruple of black pepper in phthisis. 

 Two other preparations u«ed in this disease, and called Pottali 

 hemzgarbha rasa, and Hitnagarbha pottali rasa, respectively, are 

 similar in composition to the MrtgdnJca rata. They contain 

 mercury, sulphur, gold, pearls, borax etc , in varying proportions. 



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