Part 4 - How to make and take Sulphur oil

First method.

Gandhaka, purified and very finely powdered, with one fourth its quantity of trikatu, is to be strewn over a piece of cloth, one aratni in length and in breadth. This cloth is then to be rolled up in the form of a candle entwined with cotton thread, and immersed in oil for three hours. The candle is then to be caught hold of by means of a forcep and one of its extremities to be set fire to over a glass pot on which is to fall smelted sulphur, drop by drop. Three drops of this sulphur oil, thrown on a pan (betel) leaf, is to be rubbed by means of the tip of a finger with mercury, three raktis in weight. The pan leaf with the sulphur oil and the mercury is then to be swallowed. Taken regularly, this medicine cures, in a short time, cough, asthma, colic, chronic diarrhoea, and mucus. It makes the system very light.

Second method.

A piece of cloth is to be soaked for seven times with the milk of arka and snuhi. The cloth is next to be soaked with gandhaka rubbed with butter, made into a candle, and dried. This candle is to be held tight by means of a forcep over a pot, the lower extremity being set fire to in such a way as to let the smelted sulphur fall, drop by drop, into the pot. This liquid of sulphur may be used for all purposes.

Third method.

Powdered gandhaka is to be mixed with milk, when it is boiled. This milk is to be converted into curd. Clarified butter, prepared out of this curd, is called sulphur oil. It cures cancer leprosy by internal as well as external application.