Chandamarutha Chendooram

 

Drugs:

 

1.

Purified Cinnabar

...

40 gms

2.

Purified Calomel

...

20 gms

3.

Purified Corrosive sublimate

...

10 gms

4.

Purified Sulfur

...

10 gms

5.

Purified Erasa Chendooram

...

10 gms

6.

Breast Milk (or white albumen of egg)

...

Sufficient quantity

 

Process:

 

              Grind drugs 1 to 5 with 6 for 5 days. Then continue grinding without adding 6 till the mass becomes a very fine powder.

 

              Instead of 6 specified above, egg albumin may be used. In fact there is no textual authority to use breast milk or eggs albumin. Simple grinding is recommended in the text. The chendooram should be of a testing pink color.

 

Indications:

 

              Arthritis, hemiplegia, paralysis, shaking palsy, delirium, fevers and syphilitic sores.

 

Dosage:

 

             50 mg. Twice a day. Atleast for 5 days. With three pungents powder, palm jaggery, honey or ginger juice.