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Fifteen actions of medicines

औषधियों के पंद्रह कर्म · औषधकर्म

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
औषधकर्मभेषजकर्म
Hindi
औषधियों के पंद्रह कर्म
English
Fifteen actions of medicines

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  • The fifteen actions of all medicines are listed as pacifying (samshamana), kindling digestion, rejuvenation, nourishing, scraping, binding, aphrodisiac, drying, dissolving, downward cleansing, upward cleansing, two-way cleansing, purgation, poison and antidote, as taught by the omniscient Lord.

    Chapter 20 · p. 448 · v. 17Hindi commentaryTraditional description

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Content type
Principle
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
3
Chapters
Chapter 20
Extraction tasks
T22
Record id
concept_aushadha_karma