Treatment for fever (98): Sannipata-martanda rasa

Eight tolas of mercury sixteen tolas of sulphur, two tolas, of copper, two tolas of silver and two tolas of gold are to be mixed together, and rubbed in the sun, for three days with the decoction of chitraka roots. The substance is again to be rubbed and mixed with one sixteenth its weight of aconite, and subjected to bhavana with the biles of boar, goat, buffalo, peacock, and rohita fish. Pills are then to be made, six metis in weight each, to be taken with honey, juice of ginger, decoction of chitraka roots, and powdered trikatu. Diet curd, boiled rice, powdered maricha, mixed with sugar, and curries prepared from patola, etc., with a little of ginger. The body of the patient is to be rubbed with a cooling oil, and there-after, he is to take a bath in cold water so long as shivering and a desire to answer the calls of nature do not arise. The bath is to be continued for eight days in succession, and diet to be the same all these days.