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Castor-root kalpa

एरंडादि कल्प · एरण्डादि कल्प

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Eatables (confections, linctuses and the like) prepared with castor root, guduchi, gajakarni and bhallataka are eaten daily by the method stated before. The text says a man soon gains inexhaustible virility, special strength and charming youth, becomes free of all diseases and lives as long as three hundred years.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
एरण्डादि कल्प
Hindi
एरंडादि कल्प
English
Castor-root kalpa

Ingredients and preparation

Confection (paka)Taken by mouthChapter 25 · p. 592 · v. 38

Ingredients

IngredientAs written in the textQuantity as written
Eranda (castor plant)एरंड (एरण्ड)एरणड / एरणड की जडNot stated
Guduchi (giloy)गिलोय (गुडूची)अमृत / गिलोयNot stated
Hastikarniहस्तिकर्णीहस्तिकणिँ / गजकर्णीNot stated
Bhallataka (marking nut)भिलावा (भल्लातक)वीरांघ्रिप / भिलावाNot stated

Preparation as described

Eatables such as confections (paka) and linctuses (avaleha) are prepared with these drugs.

एरणड की जड, गिलोय, गजकर्णी, भिलावा, इनके द्वारा साधित भ़यों (पाक

How it is used

Eaten daily by the method stated before.

अवलेह आदि) को पूर्वोक्र विधान से प्रतिदिन भ़ाण करें तो शीघ्र ही अ़ाय वीर्य, विशिष्ट शक्रि,

एरणडामृतहस्तिकणिँविलसद्वीरांघ्रिपै: पाचितं।Source wording as converted, Chapter 25 · p. 592 · v. 38.

Safety

  • Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.

All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Extraction notes

  • The verse names वीरांघ्रिप, which the commentary renders as भिलावा. Supervision flag set because bhallataka is a toxic plant.

Quick facts

Content type
Formulation
Source pages with records
1
Pages naming it
0
Chapters
Chapter 25
Extraction tasks
T28
Record id
formulation_erandadi_kalpa_p664