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HINDU CHEMISTRY
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Take one part of sulphur and half its weight of mercury [The components to be rubbed together.].........The same to be administered with honey and clarified butter. This is called "rasāmrita chūrnam.[1]"

Quicksilver, rubbed with the juice of dhatura s. or piper betle, and applied externally, kills lice. (Poona ed. p. 122.)

A Collyrium

Compounded of 14 ingredients amongst which occur the belleric myrobalans, rock-salt, killed copper and blue vitriol—all in the powdered form. (Poona edition, p. 470.)

This very preparation, in identical recension, occurs in Chakrapānī under the name of "Nagārjuna Varti."

A Process of Killing Iron

The text, which occurs only in the Kásmír Ms. under रसायनाधिकारः। unfortunately in a mutilated from, would seem to indicate that the iron is

  1. Vide Kásmír Ms. under अम्लपित्ताधिकारः, omitted in the Poona edition.