The Jewel Mine of Mercury

...bind with cloth. Grind it very firmly. Once dry, seal it in a crucible and cook it with a sharp fire. Place the milk-portion below and the upper portion above. By changing the colors, etc., process it for three days. Afterward, extract that mercury, which is a carrier of powers and a destroyer of age. Take the excrement of a newborn child, the fruit, the seed, and the blood of a cāṇḍālī untouchable woman, mercury, mercury-mixed ṭaṅkaṇa borax, and jayantī. Grind them at night. During the day, make a ball with sahadevi Sida cordifolia and smear it. Place the ball inside a sampuṭa sealed crucible and grind it. Steam it lightly in a small sand apparatus. Once extracted, coat it again with citraka, sahadevī, and sulfur. Enclose it in the sampuṭa, bind it with cloth, and dry it with a layer of clay. Seal it and heat it in a moon-crucible. Collect the sampuṭa. By using the fine powder, one cures the diseases of men. [Regarding the] arm, the sampuṭa [should contain] equal parts of mercury. [It is] a liquid through that armor. Grind separately with substances: [the ratio of] sulfur to mercury. It should be served in a sealed crucible on a mountain likely an earth-burial heating method. For a day, [it is] swooned. Make a crucible of six inches, well-cooked, earthen, and firm. Coat the inside of the crucible with soft dhattūra Datura leaves. Pour the mercury inside, fill the crucible with its juices, seal it, and cook it in an oil-salt apparatus with a lamp-fire for a week. After the week, extract a grain-sized amount, which cures fever. Steep the mercury in the sun with the juices of kuraṇṭaka Barleria prionitis, or grind it with the leaves of latākari. For a day, [it is] swooned. Use it in all processes. Grind equal parts of kāsīsa green vitriol, saindhava rock salt, and mercury.