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The first process consists in the purification of mercury.

"Quicksilver, rubbed repeatedly in the juice expressed from sesbania aculeata, ricinus communis, zingiber and solanum nigrum, becomes purified."

"Take one part of mercury and one part of sulphur, rub the two together in a mortar and thus prepare kajjali or rasaparpati. "